# Measuring Shielded Adoption **URL:** https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/measuring-shielded-adoption/35022 **Category:** Technology **Created:** [September 21, 2019, 9:02pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/measuring-shielded-adoption/35022 "2019-09-21T21:02:21Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 22
### Author: ![garethtdavies](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/garethtdavies/32/210_2.png) [@garethtdavies](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/garethtdavies) #### Post date: [August 2, 2020, 9:34pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/measuring-shielded-adoption/35022/22 "2020-08-02T21:34:59Z")
Updated the first post charts for July during which there was a significant decrease in shielded usage ⬇ I’ll add in the charts next time, but as has been mentioned on [this thread](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/is-there-any-block-with-shielded-coinbase/36891/11) there are still **0** shielded coinbase transactions. For context, there have been ~20,000 blocks mined since Heartwood activation. I also took a look in July at the breakdown of fully shielded transactions included in blocks. Just 3,133 blocks (that’s **8.8%** ) had at least one fully shielded transaction (i.e. z2z). So that’s **91.2%** of all Zcash blocks mined in July did not contain any fully shielded transactions. Breaking down those 3,133 blocks that contained fully shielded transactions, most contained just 1. ![Blocks with a fully shielded tx](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/original/3X/d/c/dc5a2ad6143465eb826724c13faa627f9a80854b.png) Also, for context, here’s a breakdown of the number of transactions in each block - there were 7910 ( **~22%** ) empty Zcash blocks in July (as the coinbase transaction is also included here). ![Number of transactions in a block](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/original/3X/3/c/3c2f55ba8a5ac8cece09018880ce00ff3b1bba41.png) --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/measuring-shielded-adoption/35022)._