The Zcash Daily — Monday, November 2, 2026
Three days. NU7 activation sits at block 3,543,405 — roughly 3,950 blocks away as of this morning — and the ecosystem is in full migration mode. ZEC is trading near $1,260, up ~1.8% on the day, holding steady after last week’s birthday volatility. The real countdown story isn’t price; it’s Zondax’s warning that their Ledger app only produces V4 transactions — which NU7 kills. If you hold shielded ZEC on a Ledger, your window to move it closes Wednesday. Someone with 9,093 ZEC (~$11.4M) already migrated through the full Sprout→Sapling→Ironwood path. They’re not waiting.
The forum is drowning in retroactive grant applications. At least eight landed this weekend ahead of the Q4 CDRGP deadline on November 13. The standout: a researcher claiming $300K for two critical Zebra bugs — a ZIP 203 nExpiryHeight bypass that could split the network with a single transaction, and an unenforced coinbase scriptSig length. Both fixed in Zebra 6.4.0. Separately, three more researchers filed for shares of high-severity Zebra advisories. The security bounty economy around Zcash is getting real.
On the builder side: ROZO Checkout shipped shielded ZEC payments for OpenRouter and Venice.ai — Unified Address support with ZIP-321 QR codes, plus a CLI path. A new Kestrel grant application proposes native mobile WalletConnect for Zcash ($20K, 12 weeks). And in the ZIPs repo, a 10-second block spacing draft landed — targeting NU8, not NU7 — proposing to cut block times from 75s to 10s. Meanwhile the ZAP draft ZIP got its first approval. The governance debate isn’t slowing down; it’s formalizing.
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