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Network Stats | October 19th - 26th Transfer Count: 94,295 O: 24588 S: 3368 T: 66,339  Transaction Count: 39,169 O: 8770S: 1812 T: 28,810  Net Flow (+OUT,-IN)O: -35,1223S: -2330 Chain Supply (ZEC): 16,280,649O: 4,131,241S: 772,244T: 11,351,383SP: 25,779Lockbox: 72,411 Total Shielded Supply: 4,929,266 Node Count: 112Zebrad: 39Zcashd: 73

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Zcash Updates ⓩ

ECC, Zcash Foundation & Shielded Labs 🛠️

• Crosslink Workshop: Milestone @shielded labs

• Zebra 3.0.0 - RC.0 Release

• Over 30% of all Zcash are now shielded! Wow -@ShieldedLabs

• Zcash is encrypted electronic cash -@Zcash

• Of the $70M swapped through @zashi_app in its first 7 weeks, $4M was swapped from BTC to shielded ZEC, after $1M+ in Bitcoin to Zcash was swapped yesterday. - @jswihart

• This chart isn’t about price — it represents 1,350 days of my professional life at ECC, working day by day and never giving up - Lukas Korba

• Update: Zashi 2.4.5 is out — Bug fix release for a balance & shielding issue impacting some user’s wallets -@zashi_app

• The future of money is e2e encrypted -@ShieldedLabs

• Privacy Meets Liquidity, Zolanear Bridge Livestream with Zooko & Mert

Zcash Community Grants 🏛️

• Review Period: Coinholder-Directed Retroactive Grants Program

• ZCatch - Zcash explore and service -@sondotpin

• Draft process ZIP for the Coinholder-Directed Retroactive Grants Program -@aquietinvestor

• Unstoppable Wallet — Full Zcash Shielded Support & SDK Integration -Dabybayo

• New Release: 0.11.1.0-beta | New Zenith release - NU6.1 support -@pitmutt

• Zcash Global Türkish 2025 Q3-4 -Batuhan

• ZCash confidential link to ethereum -@otra437

Community Projects 🌐

• Zcash Z3 updates (formerly Zcashd Deprecation)~pacu

• There is a new independent core team being set up for zcash focused on scaling and security - 0xMert

• ZachXBT tests Zashi wallet and provides useful feedback

• 4th Meetup of the Zcash Barcelona Club! - gordonesTV

• Spot ZEC now coming to hyperliquid very soon ~@mert | herlius.dev

• Zcast, el podcast de Zcash en Español

• Zcash Youtube Stream - A Privacy Season Started? - Casta Crypto

• THREAD | on Privacy in Layer 1 (by Frank Braun): In-depth explanation of why privacy should be the foundation of blockchain, focusing on Zcash vs. others.

• PODCAST | Privacy Hour with NYM Brazil
  Is ZEC on Solana Private? Tl;dr no - Encifher Trade

• Understand Zero Knowledge Proving (ZKPs) - Zcash Brazil

• Zcash Brazil destacando a importância da privacidade no HackTudo Rio! @zcashBr

• Call with the community | 9 Years of Zcash - Retrospective: Celebration with a pre-event on Discord on October 23rd. - ZcashBrazil

• Zcash founding storytime -@EliBenSasson

• Reminder: Some of the people building blockchain surveillance sold spyware to dictators in their last job. - Ian Miers

• Keyboard by Design Team - Zcash Brazil

• Privacy Anniversary + Ledger Giveaway: Ledger Nano S Plus giveaway to celebrate 9 years of ZEC (October 28th). - Zcash Brazil

• ZONA Z Edition #10 - Zcash Brazil

• To celebrate the Zcash anniversary (10/28), let’s boost your security: 1x Ledger Nano S Plus. -@zcashbrazil

• Who Wants to Be Zcasher 2.0 8th Question. Do you know the answer? -@zcashesp

• Zcash is Encrypted Bitcoin -@genzcash

• The madman isn’t slowing down folks, here’s another 15.59 bitcoin swapped for 6,580.48 zcash in the past 24 hrs -@in4crypto

• We are ZecHub -@ZecHub

• Zooko Magister - When Zcash Magister appears on the field, the darkness of surveillance recedes. - @Zcash_ua

• Zec.blog for Ukraine is under development -@Zcash_ua

• Unstoppable Innovation 🛸 NU6.1 🔜NU7🔜NU8 — Read the Zcash Improvement Proposals for more details: zips.z.cash -@ZecHub

• My art gallery now proudly accepts Zcash, thanks to an easy purchase from the ZecHub store! - @shieldedmark

• Thank you .@mynymbox for accepting Orchard shielded $ZEC ! -@Dismad8

• Welcome, newly verified Zcashers! It’s easy to Zcash them on Zcash.me -@zcashme

• Have some more exciting hiring announcements to make soon, but in the meantime, if you want to contribute to Tachyon and leave a legacy on scalable encrypted money, please go to seanbowe.com and reach out! — Sean Bowe

• Zcash is Satoshi’s last wish - @ShieldedLabs

• The purpose of Zcash has never been to conceal illicit activity. It’s to restore privacy as a normal condition of digital life. Because privacy isn’t a crime; it’s the foundation of freedom. - @bitlarrain

• Tachyon is absolutely insane anons. recursive proving + parallelized circuits that cut proving costs to near-zero. currently digging in over wine and classic symphony so full deets in a bit. - @lucidzk

• Q: What is the shielded pool? A: Where the encrypted money swims. - @Zcash

• Bounty Alert! Zcash Nigeria has an open Dework bounty for talented writers! Join the Zcash Nigeria Contributor Program, write insightful and well-researched content about @Zcash, and earn $ZEC rewards for your contributions. -@ZcashNigeria

• Learn how to use .@brave Wallet to explore the world of DeFi — swapping $ETH for $ZEC with $NEAR Intents and sending Shielded @Zcash to your mobile wallet! -@ZecHub

• Zcash is encrypted electronic cash - @Zcash

• AWS is down, but Zcash is working - @Zcash_ua

• Updated calendar of events in Ukraine - November 2025 -@Zcash_ua

• Zcash vs Bitcoin | A personal Reflection on my journey from bitcoin to Zcash -@joachimtcb

• Our Zcash Ghana Meetup in Wa was a huge success — with 54 amazing attendees joining us to learn, connect, and explore financial privacy with Zcash -@ZcashGH

• Zcash in Web3: the future of private decentralization -@Zcash_ua

Meme of the week 😊

https://x.com/jswihart/status/1982319789990445350

Jobs in the Ecosystem

• Dework Tasks posted every Monday - ZecHubA