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Network Stats | October 26th - November 2nd Transfer Count: 136,253O: 32,717S: 3549T: 99,987 Transaction Count: 58,937O: 12,246S: 1912T: 45,075 Net Flow (+OUT,-IN)O: -26,438S: 15,127 Chain Supply (ZEC): 16,291,975O: 4,191,023S: 746,070T: 11,329,105SP: 25,776Lockbox: 73,956 Total Shielded Supply: 4,962,870 Node Count: 121Zebrad: 46Zcashd: 75

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Zcash Updates ⓩ

ECC, Zcash Foundation & Shielded Labs 🛠️

• Zcash Arborist R&D Call Recording 30/10/2025

• Zcash 9th Birthday Party X Space

• ECC Q4 2025 Roadmap

• Many of you have shared how much you love Zashi... it has more than 150,000 lines of code and over 3,700 contributions from me over the past four years. - Lukas Korba

• $20M in ZEC swapped via Near in the last 24 hours - Jswihart

• Future-Proofing Zcash: Mark Henderson of Shielded Labs - Digital Cash Network

• Josh Swihart on The Rollup Podcast

• Crosslink: Updated Staking Design for Zcash - Shielded Labs

Zcash Community Grants 🏛️

• ZCG Nominations Opening November 17

• ZCG Meeting Minutes 10/27/25

• Q4 Coinholder-Managed Retroactive Grants Registration

• Grant Application - ZEC-NAM shielded airdrop protocol - Equilibrium

• Zcash Nigeria October Update

• Zcash Korea Monthly Project Update

• Zcash Brazil Monthly Project Update

• ZecHub Monthly Project Update

• Zcash Ghana Monthly Project Update

• Zcash Ukraine Monthly Project Update

Community Projects 🌐

• Put your ZEC to work (earn ORCA or ROCK) with zenZEC on Solana - Zenrock

• Bitcoin is the gold chain you flex in public. Zcash is the gold stash no one knows exists - Alex Shevchenko

• Announcing the first-ever Zypherpunk Hackathon for Zcash - 0xmert

• ZK AV Dark Prague Recording Station: Recap

• New Zcash node in Latam - Blakiat

• Ztip on Telegram (developed by carover0) - Zcash Espanol

• Zashi Wallet Fixes and Multisig Updates - Zcash Turkey

• Zcash flipped Monero 😯 - Socrates1024

• ECC Interview with Josh Swihart at Z|ECC Summit - ZecHub

• Tachyon Scaling and Zashi Wallet Upgrades in Turkish - Zcash Turkey

• Zcash is freedom money - Madars Virza

• Zcash Surpasses 30% Shielded Supply with Zebra 3.0.0 - Zcash Turkey

• Crosslink PoW and PoS Design Update - Zcash Turkey

• Just used Zashi pay for the first time... Merchant doesnt accept zec but they accept eth. Zillions - Tmek

• #ZcashAt9 Ghana Community Challenge - Zcash Ghana

• Amazing to see zcash finally doing well in the markets - finally some recognition for years and years of hard, committed, principled work - cwgoes

• Zealy Sprint Birthday Challenge in Nigeria - Zcash Nigeria

• ZCINE Screening and ZEC Quiz in Latin America - Zcash Brazil

• ZAULT17 Board Game Playtest - Zcash Ukraine

• Foundry Workshops by ZK AV Club - ZKAV Club

• Zcash 9th Anniversary Highlight in Ukraine - Zcash Ukraine

• BostonZcash Meetup Celebrates 9th Anniversary

• Spanish Twitter Space Anniversary Celebration - Zcash Espanol

• MixPay Integrates Zcash for Shielded Payments - ruZcash

• NEAR Protocol Private Cross-Chain Collaboration - Zcash Espanol

• Zcash Birthday Food Contest Episode 2 - Zcash Nigeria

• Private ZEC-to-NEAR Swaps via Zashi - Zcash Espanol

• 9th Anniversary Ledger Giveaway - Zcash Brazil

• uZEC Launch on Solana Raydium DEX - Zcash Espanol

• QQSZ Spanish Quiz Show Anniversary Episode - Zcash Espanol

• Zashi Private Swap Feature Launch - Zcash Espanol

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Jobs in the Ecosystem

• Dework Tasks posted every Monday - ZecHub