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Network Stats | June 28 - July 5th Transfer Count: 77,830 O: 18,210 S: 2801 T: 56,819  Transaction Count: 30,832 O: 7249 S: 1425 T: 21,072  Net Flow (+OUT,-IN)O: 11,249S: 650 Chain Supply (ZEC): 16,805,017O: 3,766,762S: 620,326T: 12,344,622SP: 25,409Lockbox: 47,896 Total Shielded Supply: 4,460,394

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Zcash Updates ⓩ

ZODL, Zcash Foundation & Shielded Labs 🛠️

• New on iOS: v3.7.2 - @zodl_app

• Android users: Zodl 3.7.1 is now available - @zodl_app

• In the digital age, defending civil liberties requires cryptography.Happy Independence Day. - @zodl_app

• Ironwood/NU6.3 testnet was deployed today, Thursday, July 2. - @zodl_co

• 🚨 Zebra 6.0.0-rc.0 is out - @ZcashFoundation

• Breach all gates. Zcash Update - @jswihart

• ZF Engineering Update - June 15–28 🛠️ - @ZcashFoundation

• 📊 ZCG Election Results are in - @ZcashFoundation

• Weekly Policy Memo: June 29, 2026 - @paulbrigner

• Zebra 6.0.0-rc.0: NU6.3 “Ironwood” Support and Security Fixes - @zooko

• Today we're announcing Argos: a free tool to recover ZEC stranded in old ZecWallet Lite clients. - @Sovright

• We have two independently developed consensus implementations of Ironwood testnet - @zkDragon

• UPDATE: Over the last couple weeks we’ve made huge progress on Ironwood activation in Zcash - @ebfull

Zcash Community Grants 🏛️

• More hardware wallet support for shielded @Zcash is good for users and the ecosystem - @ZcashCommGrants

• ZecHub 2026 report for June and June @ Zcash KPI Report - @dismad

• Zcash Network School - Monthly Report #2- @andr9froes

• BTCPayServer Multi-Account and 0conf Mempool Notifications UPDATE - @1337bytes

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

• Grant Application - ZECsy Team Marketing at Cypherpunk Week in Amsterdam - readymouse

• Grant Application - Zcash Indexer Observatory - oabagit

• Grant Application - Constant-Time Hardening and Explicit Timing Semantics for Zcash Rust Cryptography - fdecroix

• Grant Application: ZK-LoRa: Zero-Knowledge Privacy Layer for AI-to-AI Mesh Networks - DevsOne

• Global Ambassador Elzz June 2026 Report - elzz-ux

• The BlockSpäti Report - @webzero

Community Projects 🌐

• We are building the Zcash $ZEC Korean community together with Aiden (@zaos1004) - @Insightnerd

• Building the Zcash Machine: Tachyon and Quantum Readiness - Coindesk Research

• A new app called Zecmap (@Zecmap) now helps Zcash (@Zcash) holders find businesses nearby that accept zcash:native payments - @zcashkorea

• Beautiful messages left on the donations we are receiving in the #Zcash campaign for Venezuela - @gordonesTV

• zecd: The Zcashd Alternative Wallet - @Emersonian

• ZEC Perpetuals are now live for trading - @Kalshi

• Learn how to create live captions and simultaneous translations with Akkadu + OBS - @ZkAv_Club

• ZecHub is a community-driven educational hub for the Zcash cryptocurrency (ZEC) - @zcashkorea

• Study of protocol #5 with @shieldedmark - @zcashbrazil

• I dropped a full report of all that went down during the Zcash Developers Workshop - @thedrekal

• Zcash creator @zooko ate a burrito using $ZEC in ‘25 - @zcashkorea

• Zcash Wallets openzcash.org/wallets - @micheal2xl

• New on the ZCG dashboard openzcash.org/zcg - @micheal2xl

• Another Week, Another @zcash Z3 development update - @thecodebuffet

• 16 Days to complete a project for ZecHub Hackathon 3.0! ⏳- @ZecHub

• New Zcash Community Projects featured 💫 - @ZecHub

• If you want the latest ironwood dev work information, I highly encourage keeping up with the latest Aborist calls. ⤵️ - @dismad

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

• One of the biggest strength of #Zcash is the diversity of options - @ZcashArabia

• New wallet for #Zcash on the phone - @ZcashArabia

• Here's a video explainer from our lead on ‘What is Zcash?’ - @ZcashEastAfrica

• Update: Progress on the activation of Ironwood on the Zcash network - @zcashbrazil

• Shielded Magazine #25📑 - @zcashbrazil

• ZEC TRIVIA 🧠 Season II - @zcashbrazil

• Arborist Call #127 🌳 - @zcashbrazil

• Protocol Study #5 is now live - @zcashbrazil

• ZCG: June 2026 Election Results are now available - @zcashbrazil

• The way Zcash was meant to feel - @vizorwallet

• 3D ZCG office @ZcashCommGrants, showing only proposals under review, 1:1 with GitHub - @micheal2xl

• openzcash.org is now a PWA. You don’t need to download an app; simply set it up on your phone’s home screen - @micheal2xl

• 📃 Zcash Newsletter in Spanish - Issue No. 38 - @zcashesp

• 📣 Who Wants to Be a Zcasher - EP 26 - @zcashesp

• 📣 @zodl.com 3.7.0 - @zcashesp

• 📢 New Beta Version of Zingo Wallet - @zcashesp

• Download Zingo Wallet from: zcashesp.com/billeteras - @zcashesp

• Only 13 days left to complete a project for ZecHub Hackathon 3.0! ⏳ - @zcashesp

• Manage your ZEC on major PC platforms 💻 - @zcashesp

• Discover the possibilities offered by Encrypted Memo Bundles for Zcash - @zcashesp

• This seven-part educational series is designed to guide readers from the mathematical foundations of modern cryptography to understanding how shielded transactions work in Zcash - @zcashesp

• Zecmap is now available on the App Store - @zcashesp

• Are you still managing your ZEC using generic interfaces or centralized platforms? - @zcashesp

• 🏛️ Weekly PGPZ Policy Brief | June 29, 2026 - @ZcashTR

• It’s such a great thing that @ZcashFoundation built Zebra 🦓 a Rust, Memory-Safe, battle-tested, Zcash protocol fully spec compliant node - @thecodebuffet

• 🛡️ Ironwood Activation Approaching - @ZcashTR

• ⚒️ZF Engineering Update - @ZcashTR

• 🚀 Zcash Core and R&D Updates - @ZcashTR

• Stranded ZEC: another problem nobody wanted to fix - @sudo_ml

• 📱Zodl Update - @ZcashTR

• Zcash Z3 Updates - @ZcashTR

• 🚀 Zcash Ecosystem Summary - @ZcashTR

• July is calling, and privacy is on the line - @ZPathAfrica

• Here’s a video explainer from our lead on what is zcash - @ZcashEastAfrica

• Why Zcash in East Africa? 🌍 - @ZcashEastAfrica

• ⚡️ Zcash’s Ironwood upgrade, set for late July, could face delays as exchanges, mining pools and wallets may lack time to prepare their systems, per Shielded Labs - @coinmarketcap

• Midway into 2026! Thank you for the support 🫶 - @ZecHub

• ⚡️ UPDATE: Shielded Labs says Zcash’s Ironwood upgrade is moving forward on schedule, with security as its “primary concern.” - @cointelegraph

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