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Network Stats | July 8 - 12th Transfer Count: 74,777 O: 16,989  S: 2637 T: 55,151  Transaction Count: 29,472 O: 6857 S: 1348 T: 20,035  Net Flow (+OUT,-IN)O: 1182S: 27,213 Chain Supply (ZEC): 16,816,687O: 3,766,859S: 593,592T: 12,381,529SP: 25,409Lockbox: 49,296 Total Shielded Supply: 4,435,157

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Zcash Updates ⓩ

ZODL, Zcash Foundation & Shielded Labs 🛠️

• Zebra 6.0.0: NU6.3 “Ironwood” Mainnet Activation - @ZcashFoundation

• Detecting Counterfeiting after Zcash’s Ironwood - @TachyonZcash

• Zcash Z3 updates - @pacu

• No Arborist Call This Week - Next Call July 23rd - @ZcashFoundation

• Zcash Z3 updates - @pacu

• ZODL Summit. 🔥 - @jswihart

• We’re committed at @zodl_co. Good to go! - @jswihart

• Ironwood Mainnet Activation of NU6.3 Scheduled - @ebfull

• ZODL Summit Prague 2026 Side Events - @mrkit2u

• Zcashd Reaches End of Life as Zcash Migrates to Rust-Based Clients - @zodl_co

• Zaino 0.5.1 is now available - @ZingoLabs

• 80% of ZEC emissions have now been mined - @Zcash

• The Sovright Mining Pool is essential because of two forces converging right now: -@sovright_

• Networks like @Zcash are more resilient when decision-making is distributed. - @sovright_

• Tachyon’s Formal Verification project is on the verge of producing a mathematical proof that there are no undetectable counterfeiting bugs in the latest Zcash shielded pools. - @zooko

Zcash Community Grants 🏛️

• Zcash Community Grants (ZCG) Meeting Minutes 7/6/2026 - @ZCG

• Zcash Global en Español June 2026 Report - @AuraBritoSM

• Zaino Releases Ironwood Update - @zancas

• Zcash Ghana July 2026 Report - @ogasky

• Zcash Turkiye RLAY HUB Event - @Batuhan

• Grant Application - Zcash Explained: Educational Media Series by BlockDesk News - @BlockDeskNews

• Grant Application - zaino - Stability, Performance & Testing APPROVED - @ZCG

• Block explorer + Testnet infrastructure 2025 Update - @Cacho

• Grant Application - Constant-Time Hardening and Explicit Timing Semantics for Zcash Rust Cryptography (REMAINS OPEN) - @fdecroix

• Zcash Network School - Monthly Report #2 (June 2026) - @andr9froes

• Grant Application - Formal Verification of Consensus Arithmetic and Parsing in zebra-chain (REJECTED) - @ZCG

• Zenith Full Node Wallet 2026 (REJECTED) - @ZCG

• Grant Application — ZKPay Campus: Private Everyday Zcash Payments for Kenyan University Students (REJECTED) - @ZCG

• Grant Application - Zcash Reference Flow Kit v1: Android SDK Smoke Paths (REJECTED) - @ZCG

• Grant Application: ZK-LoRa: Zero-Knowledge Privacy Layer for AI-to-AI Mesh Networks (REJECTED) - @ZCG

• Turkish Zcash Education & Community Growth Initiative - @ZCG

• Grant Application - Grassroots Marketing Team at DWeb Camp UPDATE - @readymouse

• Zcash Arabia (June to September 2026) - @ZArabia

• ROZO Merchant POS: Fast Zcash Payments for Merchants IRL - Grant Application (REJECTED)- @ZCG

• Zcash Community Media Infrastructure & Support | Zk Av Club 2026 UPDATE - @gordonesTV

• Grant Application - {Zcash Light Client Privacy Transport Library} - @Crackdevs

• Bringing Zcash to Web3Lagos 2026 - Dre_Nesthub

• Q3 and Q4 Coinholder-Directed Retroactive Grants Program Dates - Plan Ahead! - @FPF

• Grant Application - Offensive Security #340 (REMAINS OPEN) - @phill

• FROST Shielded Multi-Sig SDK: Easy Threshold Custody for Zcash Wallets — Grant Application - @mahmudsudo

• What If Buying Zcash Was as Easy as Buying Airtime? - @clemencedouglas

• Multi‑Region Infrastructure - @perryngordon

Community Projects 🌐

• That’s great news! We’re trying to get in touch with you to add more businesses to Zecmap. - @ZecMap

• Zodl Everything, Captain - @Zebraman

• A comparison of Bitcoin and Zcash on counterfeit detection. - @arjunkhemani

• Fun fact, Zcash-grade privacy inherently has weak-subjectivity protection. - @zkDragon

• Zcash’s new formal verification efforts eliminate undetectable counterfeiting bugs from the new Ironwood pool. - @ebfull

• Zcash’s Ironwood mainnet activation height has been set and tagged! - @ebfull

• Better late then never: Slides and video of my talk “Zcash is the future — Bitcoin is Retro” at “Bitcoin je Retro” in Bratislava in April this year. - Frank Braun

• Flexa Live In Europe Across 37 SEPA countries - @FlexaHQ

• 🚀 Bhopal, we’re coming! 🦓 - @ZcashIND

• Live news with the Zcash Brasil community is priceless. @LiveZEC - @pedamerico

• LiveZEC Launching Soon - @LiveZEC

• Ironwood is active on testnet.zec.rocks - @emersonian

• Zcash Developer Sprint - @Dre_Nesthub

• Thank you to all the attendees of the 6th meetup of the Club Zcash Querétaro! #CZQ. - @zcashqro

• Zec App is Coming Soon! - @Batuhan

• Our team recently completed a security audit of Argos for @sovright_ . You can read the full report, including our findings, here: - @LeastAuthority

• Zcash at 80% Issuance: Privacy on Sale if Execution Stays Strong - @jeremiahrogers

• Zcash Ecosystem Digest | July 5th - @ZecHub

• 1 week to go until the ZecHub Hackathon concludes & submissions are starting to come in 🔥 - @ZecHub

• Think you know @Zcash? Prove it! - @ZkAv_Club

• 80% of ZEC emissions have now been mined ⛏️ - @Zcash

• 🎙️ Why does privacy matter in a digital world? - @ZcashEastAfrica

• Pretoria, get ready! The privacy revolution is touching down in South Africa! 🛡️ - @Zcash_SA

• Want to learn how to Buy ZEC in South Africa? 🇿🇦 Read this. - @Zcash_SA

• 🎉 New business added! - @ZecMap

• ZecHub DAO Proposal A162 has passed! 🎉 - @ZecHub

• Addio Google Translate! - @InsideZcash

• almost everyone under this post is asking, “what’s Ironwood?” Ironwood is the new shielded pool being proposed for @Zcash. - @CQ_Elzz

• Zcash Shielded News | Vol.26 - @ZecHub

• New LeoDex Mobile Wallet puts the entire @Zcash blockchain at your fingertips - @leodexio

• 🚀 Ready to build privacy-first tools? - @thedrekal

• ./mission $ZEC --transmit - @zksnarks_

• 🌍✨ Happy New Week from Zcash East Africa! - @ZcashEastAfrica

• 🛡️ Zcash East Africa Weekly Quiz Challenge - @ZcashEastAfrica

• 🚨 Weekly Quiz Challenge #1 is LIVE! 🛡️ - @ZcashEastAfrica

• Every public transaction leaves a trail. It doesn’t just reveal your spending habits - @ZcashEastAfrica

• Had an amazing time in yesterday’s @ZcashEastAfrica X Space! Great conversations, learned a lot, and was pleasantly surprised to receive some $ZEC for being active during the discussion. 🙌 - @pinakle_org

• Just dropped: Zcash Shielded News Vol. 26 by @ZecHub! 🛡️🦓 - @ZcashEastAfrica

• Have added ironwood support on our testnet dashboard. Ecosystem needs to update infra, allow some time. 🧑‍🎓♥️🛡️ $ZEC - @dismad8

• The Community Workshops program continues to move forward!- @ZkAv_Club

• July 10, 2026: From #Zcast we promote the Z-Aid campaign so you can donate in $ZEC to those affected by the earthquake in Venezuela. - @ZcastEsp

• A great spoiler from @zingolabs in this episode! - @ZcastEsp

• 🎧 Zcast Live #12 - How to use #Zcash from scratch. - @ZcastEsp

• A @rbrassociation node! We love these collaborations, and we discussed it in our new episode. #Zcash #Zcast - @ZcastEsp

• We were talking about this event and @zcashbrazil in our most recent episode. #Zcast #Zcash - @ZcastEsp

• Live! #Zcash #Zingo - @ZcastEsp

• #Zcash Loves Africa. And Africa loves #Zcash - @ZcastEsp

• “Financial privacy is necessary for freedom.” - @zcashqro

• Zcash Weekly #16- @cipherscan_app

• CipherScan testnet now tracks Ironwood migrations in real time. - @cipherscan_app

• 21,000 blocks to Ironwood. - @cipherscan_app

• notsofast had the biggest 7-day referral gain, up +1 referrals from the prior week (1 direct, 0 indirect), adding +0.050 $ZEC in projected rewards for a total of 7.93 ZEC. - @ZcashNames

• The government doesn’t need to know your financial history. Neither does the internet. - @ZcashNames

• If you’re looking for an active ecosystem building top notch privacy preserving technologies without bullshit, look at @Zcash. - @dwillems42

• I heard from a bird that @LiveZEC will be distributing a few GTA VI games to streamers in the launcher. - @michael2xl

• Wallets. Explorers. Payment processors. Maps. DEXs. - @cipherpay_app

• Zaino continues to evolve. - @ZingoLabs

• In July, we have a new episode of Zingo! Recap. - @ZingoLabs

• At #Zingo, we’re supporting Venezuela through #ZAid, a fundraising campaign by #ZcashEnEspañol that’s sending resources directly to those affected by the June 24th earthquake.s - @ZingoLabs

• We’re live for our June #ZingoRecap. - @ZingoLabs

• Have you tried @zcasnames yet? - @ZingoLabs

• JUST IN: Zebra 6.0.0 is out, the first stable release with NU6.3 Ironwood mainnet support. - @cypherpunk

• In 2010, Satoshi admitted quantum computers could break Bitcoin’s signatures, and said the fix was to transition to a stronger algorithm, re-signing every coin. - @cypherpunk

• BREAKING: Zcash’s Ironwood upgrade (NU6.3) is locked in with the mainnet activation height set to July 28 (block 3428143). - @cypherpunk

• New surveillance chains keep emerging.- @cypherpunk

• The real value of Zcash is its people. - @cypherpunk

• The lads make the Zcash bull case after Ironwood: - @therollupco

• About ~1M blocks remain before the next Zcash halving. - @cypherpunk

• 🛡️ Zcash Shielded News Vol. 25 is now live on Zcash Indonesia Substack. This week’s update highlights key developments in Zcash: - @ZcashIdn

• The Ironwood migration is not just a routine upgrade; it can prove that Zcash can restore the mathematically verifiable integrity of the ZEC supply. - @ZcashIdn

• Zcash Shielded News Vol. 25 Indonesia Language (X Article) - @ZcashIdn

• .@mert 0n quantum risk: - @cypherpunk

• in case this wasnt enough, zcash has upcoming: - @mert

• Zcash Shielded News | Volume 26 🦓 - @ZcashIND

• Issue 26 of Zcash News from ZecHub and Beyond: - @ZcashArabia

• 80% of the total #ZEC has been mined ⛏️ Learn about the NSM initiative from @ShieldedLabs to enhance the security and sustainability of Zcash - @ZcashArabia

• Invitation to Tomorrow’s Zcash 360° Live – @zcashesp.bsky.social

• Ironwood/NU6.3 Testnet Deployed on July 2 – @zcashesp.bsky.social

• Dynamic fees are now live on Noir Wallet - @noir_wallet

• Noir support for ZcashNames is on the way — expected to ship within the next 7–10 days. - @noir_wallet

• Noir Wallet has officially integrated support for @KeystoneWallet hardware wallets. - @noir_wallet

• Dearest @Zcash Community — for those of you based in Europe 🇪🇺 - @noir_wallet

• Don’t give up your $ZEC to use DeFi. - @noir_wallet

• Noir Channel Is Now Live on Official @Zcash Discord! - @noir_wallet

• 🇧🇷 Zcash Recap of the week - @noir_wallet

• In the @zodl_app 3.6.0 update, new functionality was introduced via an external tab: the community member @tippenein pull request was accepted into the codebase. - @ruZCASH

• Vizor has a fresh coat of paint. - @vizorwallet

• If all transactions are public, other agents can analyze the movements, copy the strategy, and eliminate any competitive advantage. - @zcashbrazil

• ZCASH PREPARES MAJOR UPDATE TO TRY TO REGAIN TRUST AFTER ZEC’S PLUNGE - @portaldobitcoin

• The greatest risk associated with privacy-focused cryptocurrencies is hidden inflation. - @zcashbrazil

• ZEC Insider | Community Call🦓 - @zcashbrazil

• Zona Z 🧠 - Edition 44 with @AAmandita_ - @zcashbrazil

• 🎉 7000 members in the Zcash Community! - @zcashbrazil

• ZEC INSIDER - @zcashbrazil

• LiveZEC: Zcash donations that leave no public trace- @techcriptoBR

• Shielded Magazine #26 📰 - @zcashbrazil

• Zebra Talks 🎙️LIVE on YouTube and X with @AAmandita_ & @Milca0_ - @zcashbrazil

• Zebra Talk LIVE | 06/17 at 7 PM on YouTube and X. - @zcashbrazil

• If you’re looking for an active ecosystem building top notch privacy preserving technologies without bullshit, look at @Zcash.- @dwillems42

• 🛡️ Zcash Ecosystem Summary - @ZcashTR

• 🛡️ Ironwood (NU6.3) has been activated on http://testnet.zec.rocks! - @ZcashTR

• 🚀 June was a month of great progress for the Zingo ecosystem.- @ZingoLabEsp

• New Community Initiative from Zcash: Chess Club - @ZcashTR

• 🛡️ An Important Proposal for Zcash’s Future: Network Sustainability Mechanism (NSM) - @ZcashTR

• 🛡️ Zcash Community Grants (ZCG) Meeting Summary - @ZcashTR

• 🛡️ A Major Step Towards Ending Fraud in Zcash: Ironwood- @ZcashTR

• 🚀 Zaino 0.5.1 Released!- @ZcashTR

• Zec App is coming soon! Check it out and let us know what you think—we’d love to hear your feedback. - @ZcashTR

• 🗺️ ZecMap Manifesto: Mapping Privacy Together - @ZcashTR

• 🛠️ Meet Zecd! http://Zec.rocks announced its new open-source wallet backend (zecd) developed for the Zcash ecosystem. - @ZcashTR

• 🦓 Zebra 6.0.0 Released: Ready for Ironwood Mainnet! - @ZcashTR

• It’s quiz time!! 🛡️💃 - @ZcashNigeria

• Happening Soon - @ZcashNigeria

• 🎉 Huge congratulations to @Indispensabl01 for winning this week’s translation role by being the first to find all 12 hidden words and crack the puzzle! - @ZcashNigeria

• This week’s newsletter is now available in Yorùbá! - @ZcashNigeria

• THE BLOCK: Zcash founder Zooko Wilcox said Project Tachyon is close to mathematically proving there are no counterfeiting bugs in Zcash’s latest shielded pools. - @TheBlokCo

• The largest Zcash miners are shielding their coins - @BenGiove

• Privacy isn’t optional. Neither is self-custody. - @KeystoneWallet

• If cross-chain swaps still stress you out, you haven’t tried the right setup 🔥 - @KeystoneWallet

• We are preparing to fly out today, anyone else joining at dweb? We’ll be rocking our zcash shirts, talking about tech, and handing out our signature “Protection is ZECsy” - @readymouse

• Think you know Zcash? Prove it! - @ryan.taylor

• A149 progress update — from the Italian pilot to a fully-private, multilingual rollout - @bloxster

• Safer Ironwood migration IP from Nozywallet - @Lowo88

• Update 4 MonteZecret: How We Made Zcash 800x Faster and Why Dash Is Still Quicker - @topcrypto

• Hey everyone. Sharing something new: ZCG Copilot and many other things. - @Michae2xl

• Zec App Update — A Lot of New Features Have Arrived - @Batuhan

• A cheaper way to swap ZEC, by construction - @immabeyeet

• Zcash Developer Sprint x LAUTECH Blockchain Club! - @Dre_Nesthub

• Update Donation Zcash for Venezuela! - @gordonesTV

• Zcash first community event in Pretoria, SA - @Inspire_s

• Private payments winning means capacity must literally scale 10000x. - @zkDragon

• Zcash (@Zcash) $ZEC has scheduled the Ironwood network upgrade for July 28. - @zcashkorea

• Which consensus mechanism would turn Zcash into a SoV and MoE for real world-goods and services for +100 million users first? - @TZhelios

• In the future, #Zcash will make it mathematically impossible for undetectable counterfeit bugs to occur. - @zcashkorea

• Your $ZEC privacy means nothing if it’s sitting on an exchange. - @KeystoneWallet

• 40% better. Is that enough for us? - @zksecurityXYZ

• Just in case someone cares: - zCat 🛡️@zCat_App

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