Tuesday, September 1, 2026
What We’re Talking About
- NU7 Coinholder Vote: Valar Group and Project Tachyon called for a coinholder vote beginning August 25, 2026, lasting approximately 18 days, to decide on NU7 scope. The vote requires participation from at least 1,000,000 ZEC to be valid, and uses a new privacy-focused system allowing shielded wallet users to vote securely.
- ZCAP Poll Now Open: NU7 (August 2026): The Zcash Foundation opened a SIV poll of the Zcash Community Advisory Panel (ZCAP) running until Monday, September 14th at 19:00 UTC, with the purpose of resolving the outstanding scope questions for NU7. This poll follows the NU7 Sentiment Polling from earlier this year, which surfaced where the community stood on a range of possible NU7 features, and this poll is intended to settle the remaining open questions.
- The First US-Listed ZEC ETF Made Me Think About Where Zcash Is Heading: A community member reflects on Zcash’s trajectory after the Grayscale ZCSH spot ETF began trading on NYSE Arca. Notably, ZCSH holds its ZEC in transparent Coinbase custody wallets, so the ETF gives investors price exposure without touching the shielded tech that makes Zcash a privacy asset in the first place.
- Community Feature Wishlist: A Thread: A new thread inviting community members, moderators, and developers to post potential features they wish to see in the Zcash ecosystem someday, with the intent to eventually evolve it into a categorized website.
COMMUNITY PULSE
- The forum is squarely focused on NU7 governance, with the concurrent ZCAP poll and coinholder vote both live and running through mid-September. The first spot ZEC ETF launched on NYSE Arca on August 25th has also injected fresh energy and new voices into the forum, with broader questions emerging about Zcash’s identity as a privacy asset in an era of growing institutional interest.
WORTH WATCHING
- ZF Engineering Update – 10th to 23rd August 2026 — Zebra can now serve light wallets directly, without a separate lightwalletd server sitting in between , a significant infrastructure simplification that could accelerate wallet and node deployment post-Ironwood.
- The Coinholder Voting Chain — A voting round includes a “snapshot height,” an “end time,” and multiple proposals, with 1 Ironwood ZEC at snapshot height equaling 1 vote. Worth watching as the technical mechanics of this new shielded voting system get stress-tested in real time.