The Zcash Daily — Monday, October 19, 2026
Tomorrow. The NU7 mainnet decision lands October 20; developers finalize the activation height for November 5. ZEC at ~$1,140, down 29% from September’s peak. FXEmpire sees a 40% crash setup to $680; ZCSH ETFs logged a third straight week of outflows. The market is pricing doubt. The builders are pricing November.
Zakura proposed per-swap viewing keys for NEAR Intents swaps: each ZEC swap gets its own key, so a cracked address exposes one trade, not your entire history. Quantum defense at the swap layer. Separately, the Sprout freeze is getting real coverage: 22,309 ZEC becomes unspendable after NU7. ZIP 2003 blocks v4 transactions. The funds aren’t burned, but moving them requires a future upgrade nobody’s built yet.
NEAR’s btc-bridge merged NU7 support. Zcon7 registration closes tomorrow. The Cypherpunk Policy Dinner happened in DC last week. ZecHub’s Oct 18 digest: 163,394 transfers, shielded supply at 5.04M ZEC, Ledger live in Zodl 3.17.0. Zcash turns 10 in nine days.
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