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Network Stats | Sep 6 - Sept 12th Transfer Count: 173,028 I: 70,088 O: 9270 S: 2779 T: 90,891  Transaction Count: 66,034 I: 29,241O: 2178 S: 1334T: 34,965 Net Flow (+OUT,-IN)I: -69,339O: 28,660S: 9284 Chain Supply (ZEC): 16,930,362I: 3,944,132O: 417,513S: 511,507T: 11,971,679SP: 22,591Lockbox: 62,937 Total Shielded Supply: 4,958,682

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Zcash Updates ⓩ

ZODL, Valar Group, Zcash Foundation & Shielded Labs 🛠️

• ⏰ Last chance, ZCAP members - the ‘August ZCAP NU7’ SIV poll closes Monday - @ZcashFoundation

• 1/4 💥 The Zcon7 program is live. - @ZcashFoundation

• Privacy ≠ secrecy - @zodl_app

• Eligible ZEC holders can cast their vote in Zodl through Monday, September 14 at 19:00 UTC. - @zodl_app

• New Zakura Release: 1.4.0 - @ZakuraZcash

• 675% faster in 24 days, on a desktop. 2-3x those gains on recent iPhones. - @ebfull

• @ZakuraZcash now has the first and only formally verified zk-SNARK prover, augmenting the soundness proofs we published in July.

• Full transparency will not survive the test of time because it already fails the test of freedom. - @ShieldedLabs

• Huge thanks to Dory, a true Zcash patriot, for donating 200 ZEC (roughly $235,000) to Shielded Labs. - @Aquietinvestor

• Thanks to @MariusMargulus, the new zk-SNARK prover in Zakura/Vizor is the first Zcash prover with a machine-checked Lean proof of statistical honest-verifier zero-knowledge. - @TachyonZcash

Zcash Community Grants 🏛️

• Grant Application - Research on a fully constant-time proving pipeline for open-source hardware wallet architectures

• zainod 0.10.0 Release

• CipherScan 2026 Update - Privacy Intelligence for Zcash

• ZECsy Trip Report: Cypherpunk Week, Amsterdam, NL Sept 1st - 5th

• Gleyo Update - From Building to Seeing It Used - @gilmore

• Kestrel + ZecAuth: Open Zcash Wallet Connectivity with African Fiat On/Off-Ramps - @raycre8-g

• FYI: last week I wrote the following email to the custodian (Anchorage) legal team (legal@anchorage.com) but no response - @matteo81

• Grant Application - 24 Videos @zkMarketer - @Connaugh

• Zcash Ghana September 2026 Report - @ogasky

• Hi everyone! Thanks so much, ZCG, for supporting this vision! Just want to share a few updates - @webzero

• Grant Application — ZecScope (Zcash network upgrade / ZIP tracker) - @aryaethn

• Grant Application - zcashlib: A Pure-JavaScript Zcash Library - @coinwallet

• @FPF We are not quite a month in yet, but progress has been smooth so far - @Ellipal

• [Grant Application] Zcash Marketing & Education Campaign on X and Binance Square - @Arslan_Tariq03

Community Projects 🌐

• zstreamer v0.1.0 serving even faster - @distractedm1nd

• Zcash Quarterly Report Q3 2026 - @PineAnalytics

• Across the United States, policymakers are reconsidering how large data centers should interact with the electric grid - @PGPforZcash

• ZEC Market’s launch is moving to September 22 - @ZecMarket

• Hello Taipei 👋 We are hosting a Zcash dinner on the 13th of September, during the ETH Taipei Week - @ZcashLabs

• Our number of weekly active users is growing exponentially, tracking the growth of Zcash - @p2pmebrasil

• ZEC TRIVIA | SeaZon 2 🎯 - @zcashbrazil

• ZEC now has a new gateway to the Base ecosystem - @zcashbrazil

• Ground Floor of the New World | Who controls the digital infrastructure that emerges with this new world? - @zcashbrazil

• Contra the Zcash Dev Fund - @maxdesalle

• 🚀 Day 5 at the Zcash Privacy Developers Residency! - @zoerdhub

• Within the scope of Rlay Blockchain Week, in the Mini Hackathon we organized with @ZcashTR, students developed their ideas, prepared their projects, and finally took the stage to present within 48 hours - @RlayTV

• Entries CLOSED. 🌴 - @LiveZEC

• Zcash from First Principles | Elliptic Curves - @ZecHub

• Options trading is now available , the world’s first Zcash fund, built by @Grayscale, on @NYSE - @ZcashETF

• 🦓 START YOUR ZEBRA NODE 🔴 | Community Workshop - @ZcashTR

• JUST IN: 6 days left to vote on NU7 - @cypherpunk

• 🔥 WE’RE LIVE! ⚡ Learn how Zebra Nodes work, their architecture, privacy features, and connection to the Zcash network 🛡️- @ZkAv_Club

• Starting a new effort, @justshieldme - @USCMigs

• Day 2 was lit🛡️ - @thedrekal

• Beyond Payments Part 4 🎞️ - @ZecHub

• Building Nozy Agent: Private Infrastructure for the Next Generation of Zcash Tools - @Nozywallet

• i’ve been working on this project i’ve named Pools - @ArtofOrb

• Day 1 was a blast - @thedrekal

• Reminder that you can offramp to 10+ countries with @peerxyz using @Zelle @monzo @Chime or @Revolut without KYC right from your wallet - @JustZappIt

• Your money moves every day. But how much of that financial life is actually visible to others? - @ZcashEastAfrica

• Most chains give you transparent money and leave you to figure out privacy later - @ZcashEastAfrica

• Join us at @ZecHub Friday Community Lounge for more information - @ZcashNames

• ZEC-OS v1.3.1 is live - @ArtofOrb

• Making something for Zcash’s birthday film festival? - @ZKAv_Club

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