The Zcash Daily — Tuesday, October 13, 2026
Yesterday’s short squeeze reversed hard. ZEC dropped ~8% to around $1,215 with $19.9M in positions liquidated — this time longs getting flushed, $5M across Binance, Bybit, and OKX alone. Still 26% off the September high. The NU7 mainnet decision on October 20 is the next catalyst; until then, leverage is doing what leverage does.
PGPZ hired its first lobbyist — Zcash now has paid DC representation ahead of the Cypherpunk Policy Dinner on October 21. And Zakura is targeting January 2027 for post-quantum signatures on transparent transactions — WOTS hash-based scheme covering ~70% of ZEC supply. Justin Drake’s warning that AI could break elliptic-curve keys “within months” is the stated prompt.
Ecosystem pulse from ZecHub’s Oct 11 digest: ZODL launched Zodl Vault and wallet gift cards, hashsmash was announced, and Zcash showed up at Token2049. On-chain Oct 4-11: 138,099 transfers, shielded supply at 5.04M ZEC. Film festival submissions close October 16 — three days.
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