The Zcash community has released a proposal for a token holder-led retroactive grant program. According to Foresight News, users may submit detailed information about completed work or nominate individuals, companies, or projects they believe should receive funding.Submissions are due by August 15…
The Barry Silbert-backed Fortitude has agreed to purchase 9,000 Bitmain Antminer Z15 Pro miners for roughly $31.5 million, a move expected to more than double the company's previously disclosed Zcash mining capacity.Bitmain is expected to ship 3,000 of the miners in October and the remaining 6,000…
Zcash’s Ironwood upgrade went live on Tuesday, introducing a new shielded pool for the privacy blockchain following concerns about the soundness of its earlier Orchard pool.Ironwood, which is also the name of the new pool, activated on schedule at block height 3,428,143 as part of the NU6.3 network…
Zcash miner Fortitude, backed by Digital Currency Group CEO Barry Silbert, has brought a new 12-megawatt mining facility in Grand Island, Nebraska, online.The Nebraska facility is Fortitude's first self-developed mining site and pushes its contracted power portfolio to more than 60 MW across seven…
Zcash releases the Zakura 1.0.4 release, which makes block verification about 20% faster, improves P2P v2, and further hardens legacy sync.Faster block verification can reduce the processing time nodes need to validate chain data, while P2P v2 improvements and hardened legacy sync address how nodes…
Binance will support the Zcash network upgrade and hard fork on 28 Jul 2026, according to its weekly announcements thread.Binance support provides advance coordination for the network transition, which may help ZEC users and traders understand that the exchange is preparing for the fork. The upgrad…
Zcash has launched a new full node called Zakura, which is maintained by a team independent of the Zcash Foundation. According to Odaily, the client is a trimmed fast-sync fork of Zebra and remains compatible with the legacy zcashd client, which will reach end of life on July 18.Zakura is part of Z…
ZODL founder Josh Swihart posted a message marking the planned end of maintenance for zcashd, Zcash's original official node software, at block height 3,417,100.According to PANews, Swihart said the Zcash network continues to run without interruption on Zebra and Zakura, which are modern Rust node…
ZEC continued to strengthen on July 15, rising about 11.1% over the past 24 hours on Hyperliquid, with trading volume of about $169 million. According to BlockBeats On-chain Detection, ZEC has gained about 37.8% so far this month from $401.42 at the start of July and was last quoted at $553.10.The…
Zcash’s Ironwood network upgrade, the solution to an “infinity” bug discovered in May on the privacy-focused blockchain’s main private transaction pool, Orchard, is set to go live on July 28.Announced in June, Ironwood closes the current Orchard pool, prevents new activity in it and sets up a new p…
Blockchain security experts are urging crypto protocols to reaudit their smart contracts as AI tooling is making it easier for hackers to identify vulnerabilities more quickly than ever before.“Our data argues for continuous review rather than a one-time audit,” TRM Labs head of policy Ari Redbord…
Zcash's native (ZEC) token climbed more than 12% on Tuesday after the developers behind the protocol's shielded pool said they are nearing a mathematical proof that the network's privacy system does not contain an undetectable counterfeiting bug that was disclosed last month.Project Tachyon outline…
