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Network Stats | July 12 - 19th Transfer Count: 71,018 i: 0O: 16,166 S: 2892 T: 51,960 Transaction Count: 28,048 O: 6446 S: 1472 T: 20,216  Net Flow (+OUT,-IN)O: 4076S: -1305 Chain Supply (ZEC): 16,843,086O: 3,765,550S: 592,012T: 12,410,295SP: 22,762 Lockbox: 52,464 Total Shielded Supply: 4,432,790 Node Count: 71Zakura: 16Zebrad: 47zcashd: 8

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Zcash Updates ⓩ

ZODL, Zcash Foundation, Valar Group & Shielded Labs 🛠️

• WE WILL WIN: ZODL SUMMNIT SUMMER 2026 PRAGUE - @jswihart

• Dan Sequeira on how Near Intents is helping make encrypted cash ubiquitous - @zodl_app

• Announcing the Zcash X Monitor, a new feature for the PGPZ Community - @paulbrigner

• Inside Zcash’s new node that targets Visa-scale privacy at 50,000 transactions per second - @Coindesk

• PGPZ Weekly Policy Memo: Week of July 13, 2026 - @paulbrigner

• Moving your funds to Ironwood - @zodl_app

• New Zakura release 1.0.4 available

• Zebra 6.2.1 is out - @ZcashFoundation

• Zcash Arborist Call 07 03 2026 - @ZcashFoundation

• Statements for the Record—July 17 CLARITY Act and July 21 FinCEN Oversight Hearings - @paulbrigner

• Stay safe! Scammers try to impersonate Zodl through emails and fake websites - @zodl_support

• The Sovright Relay: Live Now - Sovright

Zcash Community Grants 🏛️

• Offensive Security #340: Proposal Approved! - @ZCG

• Questions before I apply - @iamroot

• ZECsy Team Marketing at Cypherpunk Week in Amsterdam: Proposal Approved! - @ZCG

• Bringing Zcash to Web3Lagos 2026: Proposal Approved! - @ZCG

• Grant Application - Zebra Mempool Adversarial Resilience Suite - @deucali0n10

• Grant application: Zcash in the privacy stack (#339): Proposal Aprrroved! - @ZCG

• Grant Application – A Plural Case for Privacy: Zcash and Islamic Digital Finance - @cavalla

• Zcash Turkiye RLAY HUB Event: Proposal Approved! - @ZCG

• Zcash Light Client Privacy Transport Library: Proposal Rejected! - @ZCG

• FROST Shielded Multi-Sig SDK: Easy Threshold Custody for Zcash Wallets: Proposal Rejected! - @ZCG

• Pure Go Zero-Dependency Zcash Transaction Blob Parser: Proposal Rejected! - @ZCG

• Grant Application: VeilNFC – Private NFC Collectibles on Zcash - @carbanak

• Zcash Community Grants (ZCG) Meeting Minutes 7/20/2026 - @ZCG

• Grant Application - Batch-vs-Single Verification Equivalence: Continuous Soundness Fuzzing for Zcash Shielded Verification (incl. Ironwood) - @robustfengbin

• Questions before I apply: independent security review of red·bridge architecture - @soloking

• Request for Specific Feedback on Rejected Grant Application #352 (Pure Go Zcash Parser) - @cexpepe

• Milestone 3 of the Zebra coverage-guided fuzzing grant - @robustfengbin

• Progress Update: UI-Based Transaction Signing on Hardware - @hito

• ZIP-229 Conformance Suite: Cleanroom Testing for the Ironwood v6 Transaction Format — Grant Application Feedback Thread - @mahmudsudo

• Grant Application: Zcash DeFi Settlement Rail — an open-source native-ZEC toolkit - @floatxbt

• Idea + Detailed Roadmap: Decentralized Multi-Operator Light Client Infrastructure Optimized for Zakura - @jatinsahijwani

• Grant Application - VibeQuest: Learn, Build, Prove - @FidelCoder

• Blindvault - Privacy-Preserving Credential Issuance for the Zcash Ecosystem - @rawbytedev

• Would a shared Orchard to Ironwood migration library be useful, or is everyone building it in-house? - @erenyegit

• Zcash UK & Ireland Community Initiative - @Victorokwegada

Community Projects 🌐

• How to Run a Zakura Node with Docker - @suppvalen

• ZecMap to add real estate company with more than 19 branches across 5 different countries - @ZecMap

• Zcash India is running independent light client infrastructure for @Zcash - @ZcashIND

• Community Event Recap, Voi Kenya - @ZcashEastAfrica

• Zcash from First Principles | Shielded Transactions - @ZecHub

• Live Zec: Shielded $ZEC tipping for streamers - @LiveZec

• Boston Zcash Meetup – July 28 – Ironwood Launch Event, ft. Zooko - @BostonZcash

• Inside ZCG: A Conversation With Paul Brigner - @CQ_Elzz

• Zakura 1.0.2 running, Zakura-tui updated as well - @michael2xl

• Zcash has a three-step plan to become fully quantum resistant, starting with protecting user privacy before anything else - @CoinDesk

• ZEC TRIVIA 🧠 SeaZon II - @zcashbrasil

• Zcashbrazil announces the participation of Amanda Carmago as a speaker at Blockchain Rio 2026 - @zcashbrasil

• Students locked in, learning about Zcash with 216+ Attendees. - @ZcashIND

• Road to Ironwood Part 2 - @ZecHub

• In just 8 days, the Zcash Network will activate Ironwood (NU6.3) - @ZcashNigeria

• Zcash Developer Workshop #02 is here! - @ZcashIND

• Barrysilbert still leads the all-time referral rewards board at 24.54 $ZEC for ZcashNames - @ZcashNames

• The Mini Build Challenge for the ZCash Developers Sprint is live - @BlockchainLAUT1

• Mert on Zcash and fungibility - @will__mcevoy

• First Public Workshop Program Update and what’s happening in the ZK AV Club Workshop Program - @ZkAv_Club

• Meet ZBooks: a non-custodial accounting and treasury platform built for Zcash teams - @AustinChris_

• ZK Loyalty: a platform that helps small businesses reward repeat customers through anonymous, privacy-first loyalty programs - @ZecHub

• Zallet rpc quick reference - @dismad

• NozyWallet browser extension 0.1.7 — Sweet chili - @Nozywallet

• Zebra is already running. Thank you, zcashd - @pedamerico

• Zcash Engineering Office Hours page created! Newest release on top, playlist linked - @ZecHub

• Zcash stands as a shield, protecting your identity and keeping your data safe from prying eyes - @ZcashNigeria

• Over 3.7 million ZEC still in the Orchard pool a few days before Ironwood activation - @jeremiahrogers

• Learn how to use the @zodl_app to send, receive, and securely protect your ZE - @ZkAv_Club

• A new home for Privacy is normal manifest, in 32 languages, auto-filled - @michael2xl

• Korean translation of ZecHub’s Ironwood migration will confirm Zcash’s Supply Integrity video - @Insightnerd

• Zodl, the Zcash wallet communicating with and supporting users for the upcoming Ironwood update - @zooko

• Legal Tech & Web3 | The new paths of law - @zcashbrasil

• Zcash Nigeria Weekly Game - @ZcashNigeria

• Zcash’s largest pools have a built-in latency edge. The Sovright Relay levels the playing field - @sudo_ml

• Zcash Arborist Call Summary | July 23, 2026 - @ZcashNigeria

• By end of year, Zcash will be a leader across crypto on both security and scalability - @cypherpunk

• Zona Z - Edition #46 with Amandita - @zcashbrasil

• Zcash Engineering Office Hours, Protocol Study #6: Proving without revealing: the zk-SNARKs at the heart of Zcash - @zcashbrazil

• CYZE, a @Zcash FROST-based wallet that allows groups to coordinate like a multisig - @USCMigs

• The Yoruba translation of July 19th newsletter - @ZcashNigeria

• How denominations solve Ironwood migratrion privacy - @ZecHub

• Ironwood live scoreboard - @0xKnitser

• Zcash Shielded News | Vol.28 - @ZecHub

• Zcash explained in simple Gujarati! - @KrrishRath29455

• zkdragon joins Cypherpunk as advisor - @cypherpunk

• Zcash was the first large-scale implementation of zero-knowledge proofs in history - @will__mcevoy

• Guide for asset migration for Korean Zcash users - @zcashkorea

• Zcash Ghana Celebrates One Year Milestone - @ZcashGH

• 8th Meetup, Ethereum and Zcash together in Barcelona! - @gordonesTV

• Noir Wallet v1.0.26 UPCOMING - @noir_wallet

• Lightwalletd-rs: a Rust implementation of lightwalletd for light wallets - @Joaco

• Migration from Orchard to Ironwood in Zcash wallets - @palmar

• Zcash Ghana — Our First Year Journey (June 2025 – June 2026) - @ogasky

• Telegram, Swiss Banks, and Zcash - @the_zero

• The 4 Catalysts That Will Send ZEC to New Highs - @BenGiove

• This is another way to help in our Z-Aid for Venezuela campaign - @ZcastEsp

• Can Africa Contribute to the Future of Digital Freedom ? -@Zcash_SA

• Network Upgrade page updated! ( h/t @AayushStack) - @dismad8

• Obscura Labs is now featured on ZecHub Wiki! - @ZecHub

• Explanaining fundamentals of Zcash in hindi - @0xAlfiya

• Think you know privacy? Let’s find out - @ZcashEastAfrica

• Zcash’s combination of privacy, quantum recoverability, a more modern codebase are going to be a serious problem for Bitcoin - @jeremiahrogers

• Mert: 10% of Bitcoin’s market cap is a ‘conservative’ $ZEC target - @milkroaddaily

• Portuguese Translation of Moving Your Funds to Ironwood - @zcashbrasil

• Shielded Magazine #28 - @zcashbrasil

• Zcash explained in Telugu-simple, practical, and easy to understand - @BhupalamS

• Migration to Ironwood in Zingo-PC - @LordOfThePings

• Zingo-PC is ironwood ready - @dismad

• Africa’s privacy frontier: Our Voice in Zcash privacy movement - @LadaleLowo

• Ztrash is LIVE, offering disposable email inboxes activated by a shielded Zcash payment - @cypherpunk

• Zcash Ironwood Check and upgrade now in the WINBIT32 Privacy suite - @WinBit32

• 400+ registered users, 200+ iOS downloads, 9,762 merchants through Flexa integration now on ZecMap! - @ZecMap

• Turkish Tranlation of From First Principles: Zcash | Shielded Transactions - @ZcashTR

• Russian-language Ironwood blog posts pro.zcash.ru - @artkor

• Will we remain a network that explains privacy to humans? - @the_zero

• For the first time ever, encrypted money will achieve near parity with transparent money in supply soundness - @genzcash

• Testnet $ZEC users, you can decode testnet addresses too! - @dismad8

• final day of The ZCash Mini Build Challenge - @BlockchainLAUT1

• The main advantage Zcash has over Bitcoin is above all its culture - @cypherpunk

• No Zcash organization will ever send you an email asking for your seed phrase - @k6nb4k

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