Hi folks - here are the updates from this week:
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Poolin mined a shielded block on MAINNET. They have 30% of hashpower.
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Speaking of shielded metrics, ECC launched a Zcash metrics page to track on-chain transparent and shielded metrics. The page is updated monthly. Let us know what you think!
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New release 4.1.0 includes migration to Clang and static libc++, faster sync for initial block download, convenient testing for invalid note plaintexts, additional lightwalletd and light client RPCs and other updates.
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Ryan Watkins at Messari wrote a piece on Zcash. The full piece is behind a paywall but his twitter thread gives you a general idea of the content.
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There are 11 Gitcoin Grants up and still time to post your own and fund your favorites. In lieu of a livestream - vote for your favorite projects on Gitcoin Grants.
- Unstoppable, $20 raised from 3 → $599 in matching
- ZecWallet, $46 raised from 6 → $4379 in matching
- Afok, $23 raised from 4 → $1,318 in matchin
- ZK Podcast, $24 raised from 4 → $817 in matching
- Nighthawk, $40 raised from 3 → $671 in matching
- ZcashZeal, $21 raised from 4 → $718 in matching
- Observatory, $8 raised from 2 → $200 in matching
- Dystopia, Zcash Store, Narrative - all $0 denominated in Dai
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There’s still time for free ice cream! Download the Flexa app and get $10 worth of ZEC.
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New videos are up on Youtube: Gardening Club, Canopy Explainer and a few fun ones.
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Learn and earn with the new Coinbase ZEC videos. We partnered with Coinbase to create two new videos just before Canopy activation.
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Zcash Foundation welcomes a new Engineering Project Manager - Pili Guerra. ZF also shared their perspective on the current barriers to shielded adoption.
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MGRC posted their latest meeting minutes from earlier this week.
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DC from ECC presented at the inaugural Celo Governance Call, regarding adding Zcash to the Celo Reserve
Mark your calendars, 
11/18 - Canopy Activation
Community Shout Outs - Shout out to everyone working diligently for a successful activation!
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