CipherScan is now ZecBlock 🟨

Zcash Apps
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Quick confession: for months, people told me they couldn’t find CipherScan. Not because it was down, because they typed zipherscan, cypherscan, cyphrscan… and ended up somewhere else, or nowhere. The name also shared its space with other projects, so search wasn’t helping either.

So it has a new name. CipherScan is now ZecBlock.

Same project. Same code, same indexer, same person answering your questions. Easier to spell, easier to find, and Zcash right in the name.

What changed

Not just the logo. The whole interface was rebuilt, desktop and mobile.

  • Make the homepage yours. Every homepage card has a Customize menu: recent blocks, shielded activity, top miners, mining software, Ironwood migration, shielded pool trend, forks and reorgs. The stats bar works the same way. Your choices stay in your browser, nothing is sent to us.
  • Ask ZecBlock (beta). Ask questions about the chain and get answers built from indexed public data, with the chart and numbers behind them. It’s a guided beta: starter questions and follow-ups, not a free-form chatbot yet.
  • Charts you can share. Every chart has its own page, link and export.
  • Light and dark themes, a cleaner layout, and denser data where it helps.

Everything you used before is still there: the Ironwood tracker, privacy analytics, cross-chain swaps, mempool, mining, fork monitoring.

What you need to do

Nothing, mostly.

  • Links: every old cipherscan.app link redirects to the same page on zecblock.com. Bookmarks, shared transactions, all of it.
  • API: existing /api endpoints keep working, so there’s nothing to change today but recommended to do so soon. New integrations should use v1 (/v1/...).
    API Docs
  • Data bot: now @zecblock_bot. Same feed: shielded pool movements, Ironwood migrations, reorgs, daily stats.

The boring but important part

Nothing about privacy changed. No new analytics, no tracking, no accounts. Your preferences live in your browser. Everything is still open source.

If you try it and something looks off, tell me. Share the news and update the links if you have some :saluting_face:

Links

Back to work :smiling_face:

Kenbak

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Keeping the old transaction links working is helpful for support conversations—people may return to them days or weeks later. A visible “formerly CipherScan” note would also help users recognize the new name.

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Love the new name! I’ll be honest..and it’s something you touched upon, which is that I could never remember the name of the site :sweat_smile: This name is definitely more recognizable (Zcash focused) and easier to remember!

Thanks for providing us with such a valuable resource, and set of tools @Kenbak :saluting_face: