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Zcash Foundation

Nonprofit organisation that supports the Zcash protocol and the wider financial-privacy work around it, including engineering and the ZIP governance process.

Current stories

investConfirmed5 publishers

Zcash's NU7 puts a tentative Nov. 5 deadline on ZEC left in Sprout

Zcash's NU7 upgrade, live on testnet since Oct. 4, will leave ZEC in the legacy Sprout pool unspendable if it reaches mainnet on its Nov. 5 target. Holders' real cutoff is a block height that developers plan to set at an Oct. 20 review.

Publishers:coindesk.com cointelegraph.com crowdfundinsider.com crypto.news cryptobriefing.com

Perspective Coverage

5 publishers

Builder: Builder 37%
Operator: Operator 37%
Investor: Investor 26%

Reality

Evidence76
Adoption25
Hype gap+5
Incentives: Not scored
Confidence72

investConfirmed3 publishers

Grayscale's Zcash ETF would erase its net inflows within eight trading days at late-September redemption rates

Grayscale's ZCSH, the first US spot Zcash ETF, lost $93.56 million to outflows in one week, leaving $212.56 million of net inflows since its August launch. Its assets fell further, to about $751 million from a September peak as high as $979 million, with ZEC's price accounting for much of the drop.

Publishers:crypto.news cryptobriefing.com news.bitcoin.com

Perspective Coverage

3 publishers

Builder: Builder 7%
Operator: Operator 20%
Investor: Investor 73%

Reality

Evidence68
Adoption55
Hype gap+15
Incentives60
Confidence65

investOne report1 publisher

Zcash tests 25-second blocks on Oct. 6 ahead of an Oct. 20 mainnet call

Zcash's NU7 upgrade goes to testnet on Oct. 6, cutting target block time from 75 to 25 seconds with daily ZEC issuance held roughly flat. Nothing changes this month on the chain carrying real ZEC, so the token's October price trades on a test result and a scheduling call.

Publishers:crypto.news

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption: Not scored
Hype gap0
Incentives: Not scored
Confidence50

productOne report1 publisher

Bitcoin privacy without a fork hinges on encryption Alloc Init has not finished

Alloc Init's Shielded Bitcoin paper claims Zcash-style private transfers on Bitcoin with no soft fork or consensus change. Moving coins into and out of the pool still depends on witness encryption the authors have not finished.

Publishers:gizmodo.com

Reality

Evidence35
Adoption0
Hype gap+45
Incentives50
Confidence40

investOne report1 publisher

Zcash Foundation disowns ZRC-20 the day after a sponsored post announced it

ZRC-20 needs no consensus change, so the Foundation's denial is a reputational act with no on-chain effect, and it lands while Grayscale's ZCSH ETF has pulled more than $500m into ZEC in two weeks.

Publishers:cryptopolitan.com

Reality

Evidence42
Adoption20
Hype gap+45
Incentives78
Confidence45