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Network Stats | October 12th - 19th Transfer Count: 109,302 O: 28,511 S: 3745 T: 77,046  Transaction Count: 45,929 O: 10,504 S: 2016 T: 33,659  Net Flow (+OUT,-IN)O: -43,5377S: 11,897 Chain Supply (ZEC): 16,269,690O: 3,795,942S: 767,000T: 11,680,966SP: 25,781Lockbox: 70917 Total Shielded Supply: 4,588,724 Node Count: 100Zebrad: 41Zcashd: 59

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Zcash Updates ⓩ

ECC, Zcash Foundation & Shielded Labs 🛠️

• Zolana - @Zcash

• Deus Ex Machina - ECC Update

• DC Privacy Submit (Morning) -@ElectricCoinCo.

• DC Privacy Submit (Afternoon ) - @ElectricCoinCo.

• “...hold on a minute, this stuff is amazing, I want to get in on this...” - @str4d on joining @Zcash — @ElectricCoinCo.

• Sean Bowe’s 15-minute presentation on Zcash Project Tachyon -@zooko

• Shielded Labs is hosting a Crosslink Milestone #4 Workshop on Wednesday, Oct 22nd at 10am PST / 5pm UTC. Come join our permissionless testnet!

• Crosslink Workshop:Wednesday, Oct 22nd at 5pm UTC - @aquietinvestor

• Privacy + Usability -@zashi_app

• Zolana Bridge powered by NEAR Zolana is here. You Intent, We deliver. -@Zcash

• Privacy is the key to web3 adoption -@Zcash

• A transparent blockchain is a leaky boat. -@jswihart

• The future of money is encrypted, not fully transparent - @ShieldedLabs

• You know you’re winning when you can say “encrypted Bitcoin” and all of CT knows you’re talking about Zcash - @ShieldedLabs

• Zcash Arborist Call 10-16-2025 — Zcash Foundation

Zcash Community Grants 🏛️

• Zcash Community Grants Meeting Minutes: October 13, 2025 — ZCG

• We’re excited to announce that the @Zcash plugin for BTCPayServer now supports Orchard / Unified addresses – enabling private $ZEC payments through the most advanced shielded pool. — ZCG

• Huge thanks to community contributors @hhanh072 and @1337bytes for their invaluable work on maintaining and improving the Zcash plugin for BTCPayServer — ZCG

• In Zcash you have two ways to access the network: mainnet and testnet. Both are essential for the optimal development of any blockchain project -@ZingoLabEsp

• Merchants, developers, and enthusiasts – start accepting shielded $ZEC with @BTCPayServer today! Private. Open-source. Built for the future of payments —ZCG

• Review Period: Coinholder-Directed Retroactive Grants Program -@aquietinvestor

Community Projects 🌐

• Zcash Z3 updates (formerly Zcash deprecation) October 17th -@pacu

• ARTICLE | ZONE Z - In this issue, learn about the great distortion of commodity money into fiat money - Zcash Brazil

• This is really heating up - Zcash.me

• Your Private Money Yearns for a Private Economy - AztecNetwork

• Trade and LP Zcash on Raydium - RaydiumProtocol

• Zcash Ghana Meetup Challenge! Are you going to be present at the @ZcashGH in-person meetup in Wa today? Let’s make it fun! -@ZcashGH

• LIVE | Zebra Talk: risk management - Zcash Brazil

• Never been easier to onboard our tribe to an asset like @Zcash: it’s killing it rn! And the momentum makes getting started effortless -@Maya_Protocol

• CALL | ZEC INSIDER - Zcash Brazil

• Curious about privacy in crypto? -@SwapKitPowered

• Supporting shielded ZEC because privacy deserves the same attention to security as everything else we do. -@Gemini

• X SPACES | PRIVACY HOUR 10/21 - Zcash Brazil

• Welcome to the Zcash Arborist Call (Oct 16, 2025) -@ZcashNigeria

• Today I feel like @zooko! Some people ask me things about #Zcash in our Meetup: what is Zk Proof, why the ZEC price is up? Is Zcash better than Bitcoin? -@gordonesTV

• Do you think a hackathon is just for programmers who don’t sleep? Think again! -@zcashesp

• Did privacy impose a cost on usability and scalability? -@Edicksonjga

• Zcash Operators: Earn Zec for your uptime | It’s incredible to see so many people running Zcash light wallet servers, Hosh is showing 40 online right now. Thank you! -@emersonian

• Zebra Talk | Active protection against media noise -@zcashbrazil

• Sean Bowe and Jack Grigg: Encrypted Money at Planetary Scale -@arjunkhemani

• AI x Privacy x Intents -@ZkAv_Club

• Why you need crypto privacy for everyday like -@ZecHub

• At Funding the Commons during Berlin Blockchain Week 2025 we were joined by .@shaiss & .@guillewrotethis from .@NEARProtocol to explore Intents, Shade Agents and Blockchain Privacy with Zcash! -@ZecHub

• NEAR x Zcash: Intents, Al Agents, and Cross-Chain Privacy with Shai & Guille —ZecHub

• A transaction without privacy is a financial telegram. -@Zcash_ua

• Zashi 2.4 — decentralized swaps now on Zcash! -@Zcash_ua

• Private swaps between Zcash and Aztec — a new level of financial privacy. -@Zcash_ua

• Will ZEC, XMR surpass by December 31? For now, the chances are 57%, but looking at the chart, it’s possible by the end of October. What do you think? -@Zcash_ua

• Support artists directly. Peer-to-peer donations via #Zcash — that’s creative freedom without platforms, fees, and control. Simple. Anonymous. Instant. -@Zcash_ua

• Working with testnet $ZEC this morning. Running zebrad with progress_bar = detailed yields some cool stats, as well as a log. Lets dig in -@dismad8

• $ZEC is still one of the most underrated projects in crypto. -@BTCturtle

• ZEC (ZCash) is now supported in Infinex, via @NEARProtocol’s Near Intents

• ZOLANEAR = Zcash, on Solana, powered by Near —Kent

• Exposure to Zcash, now on @solana $uZEC, available on @RaydiumProtocol 1:1 backed wrapped ZEC, powered by Universal | Zolana -@universaldotxyz

• Holding Zcash to uphold a free world is an honor. -@MindsFiction

• Zcash is a legion of invisible guardians serving the goddess of freedom, cloaked in cryptographic shadows, moving silently through the digital ether -@Anonymistxyz

Meme of the week 😊

https://x.com/zcashbrazil/status/1979355537633611888

Jobs in the Ecosystem

• Dework Tasks posted every Monday - ZecHub