ZecHub 2026

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Hi community, please review our July project report below:

Major Achievements

Project Updates

July was a high-output month centered on supporting ZecHub (wiki and content repositories). Work focused on improving our bounty platform, adding new features such as continuous supply and metrics dashboards, documentation polish, and new educational content.

4 articles introducing a more engaging and reader-friendly structure have been written by Vito including ‘Why Your VPN Isn’t Enough: The Future of Digital Privacy Runs Through Mixnets’, ‘VPNs, mixnets, and layered privacy’, ‘Ironwood network upgrade and its impact on the Zcash ecosystem’ and one summarising the Hackathon submissions. Upcoming work includes Preparing community call and event coverage for August & developing educational tutorials for Zakura and Noir Wallet.

Squirrel updated the Treasury Dashboard and hosted a community call going over the Q2 Treasury Report also working together with contributors toward refining submissions, processing weekly payments and Ecosystem Digests, updating the Hackathon page with submitted projects, managing store orders and arranging our Hackathon vote. Updates were made to the Zcash Wallets page detailing which are Ironwood ready & Obscura Labs added to Organisations section.

Kroy has delivered visual assets consistent with ZecHub’s branding, and community engagement efforts. These include:

  • ZSN posters and subposters (Vol 25-29)
  • YouTube Thumbnails for Developers and Contributors Workshop
  • Thumbnails for Research page on zechub.wiki
  • Youtube Thumbnail for Interviews with Harry Halpin and Max
  • X Banner - Halfway 2026 notification
  • Thumbnails for ZecHub Sync Meet
  • DAO Proposal Passed Banner - Dre’s retroactive compensation
  • ZecHub Articles Poster and subposters
  • Zcash Article (Ironwood Live on Mainnet) Poster and Subposters

Future deliverables include:

  • ZecIllustrated Logo, Cover Images and assets
  • Badges for ZecHub Bounties

Dismad’s updates listed below:

A major theme was Ironwood (NU6.3) readiness and the July 28 activation. This included:

  • Dashboard/Scripts updated for the new Ironwood pool
  • Extraction of reusable analysis tools
  • Local explorer enhancements
  • ZEC Bounties Platform Dashboard created with Badge support and other useful KPI’s

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Approved PRs outside ZecHub

  • Zcash Foundation/zebra #11014 — Clarified the “transaction not found” RPC error message (changed from “main chain” to “mempool or best chain” to avoid mainnet confusion). Merged 28 July.
  • Enoch208/Turnstile #9 — Added Zkool support to the Ironwood Orchard-exposure checker (viewing-key-only tool). Merged 21 July.

New & Updated Personal Repositories

Repo Created / Last Push Language Description Notes
zalletTools 2026-07-18 Shell Dancing with zallet Helper scripts (listMemos.sh, prettyZallet.sh) for the zallet wallet. MIT.
lightwalletUtilities push 2026-07-16 Shell — Ongoing utility scripts
rusty-zechub push 2026-07-26 Shell/Rust rust playground Zebrad interaction, supply extraction, mempool, tx details, etc. Updated For Ironwood
zec-bounties update 2026-07-25 TypeScript Bounty Platform with Native ZEC Payments Badge support
shieldedCurrents update 2026-07-26 Rust Tools for analyzing Zcash shielded pool activity, fees, supply history, mempool Extracted from ZecHub wiki work. Crates for block fees, mempool visualizer, shielded currents (Transparent/Sapling/Orchard/Ironwood), supply history, tx fees. Ironwood-ready ~23 July. Local Zebra RPC required.
zcash-explorer update 2026-07-25 Elixir (Phoenix LiveView) Zcash Block Explorer Local/self-hosted explorer with Sapling/Orchard/Ironwood support; connects to local Zebra/zcashd RPC. Block radar, mempool, UA lookup, etc.
spvisualizer update 2026-07-25 Rust Visualize the Zcash protocol Orchard/Ironwood Key visualizer

Other relevant (pre- or early-July but active context): shielded-observer, zebra-sonify, uaMadness,

Upstream Contributions Outside ZecHub

Project Type Title / Link Status Date
ZcashFoundation/zebra PR fix(rpc): update “transaction not found” error clarity Merged (28 July) Opened ~19–20 July
blockhackersio/paypunk PR + Issue Update QUICKSTART.md; NU6.3 / Zebrad Support PR closed, Issue open 16 July
zcashme/zns-login PR demo command update (#1) Open 19 July
Jubrilabdulazeez/z3-launcher Issue NU6.3 support (#1) Open 16 July
Enoch208/Turnstile PR Added Zkool (#9) Merged 21 July

Zebra PR detail: Changed RPC error from "transaction not found in main chain" → "Transaction not found in mempool or best chain" (avoids mainnet confusion). Trivial clarity fix; merged on Ironwood activation day.

ZecHub Hackathon

The first annual ZecHub Hackathon is nearly completed! The DAO is currently carrying out a 2-Stage voting process to determine the 5 finalists. Stay tuned for the announcement.

Please do check out the 36 projects listed here.

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ZECBounties

Tron’s work has been primarily focused on improving the Bounty Platform. New features listed below:

  • Added user nicknames to allow users to choose a public identity without exposing their full names
  • Implemented bounty update notifications to alert users when they have been awarded a bounty
  • Added a community-suggested task label to clearly distinguish suggested bounties from regular bounties
  • Implemented infinite scroll / scroll-based bounty loading to make discovering older bounties easier
  • Added assignee sorting to improve administrative bounty assignment workflows
  • Added email notification preferences, allowing users to choose whether they receive emails
  • Updated email notifications to include the bounty creator and added additional indicators to improve communication context
  • Added UA address icons to improve visual identification of wallet addresses
  • Implemented a new KPI dashboard with dedicated KPI routes for both admin and client views
  • Added KPI bounty filtering to allow easier separation and analysis of mainnet and testnet data
  • Fixed KPI graph data accuracy issues where administrative statistics were displaying incorrect values
  • Fixed a wallet balance calculation/display issue where total wallet balances were not being shown correctly
  • Fixed navigation bar inconsistencies across the platform
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ZKAV Club Collaboration

Thanks to Ryan and the ZKAV Club team for providing recordings and accompanying descriptions for interviews with Harry Halpin at Dark Prague and an interview about ZK Loyalty and FHE published this month. Post production of the source videos and creation of shorts was carried out by Vito.

ZecHub Content

Our July educational content:

All X (Twitter) content republished by Vito to Bluesky and Mastodon.

Shorts

Substack

Community Meetings

Community Contributions

Bloxster

Huge thanks to @Bloxster for completing his proposal to provide a better alternative to Google translations & make ZecHub Wiki a much more secure, privacy-preserving resource for site visitors.

Omega Wolf

In the weeks leading up to the NU6.3 @Omegaonchain has worked on the brilliant Road to Ironwood Series thus far providing an introduction to Ironwood, the Turnstile & zcashd deprecation!

Zcash Ecosystem Digest
Newsletters this month were curated by @Greatnessone, @ayanlajaayodeji-hash & @rems-15

ZecHub Wiki

Bounty Program

Zcash Contributors: 26
Bounties completed: 31
ZEC towards bounties: 11.79
ZEC towards DAO Proposals: 12.12

view tasks: https://bounties.zechub.wiki

Feel free to ask questions or give feedback. KPI’s to follow

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