Digest 09-12-2026

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Zcash Ecosystem Digest | September 12th

ZEC-backed credit is now live on Solana., NU7 Final Call, Zcon7 Program Reveal, Zakura 1.4.0 Release, and Shielded ZEC Keeps Growing

Curated by GianGorga

Zcash Updates ⓩ

ZODL, Zcash Foundation & Shielded Labs 🛠️

ZEC-backed credit is now live on Solana. - @kamino

⏰ Last chance, ZCAP members - the 'August ZCAP NU7' SIV poll closes Monday, Sept 14 at 19:00 UTC - @ZcashFoundation

💥 The Zcon7 program is live - @ZcashFoundation

⏳️ Less than 50 days until we're all in the same room again - @ZcashFoundation

ZF Engineering Update - Aug 24 to Sep 6 🛠️ - @ZcashFoundation

Should the Dev Fund end in 2028? ⏳️ - @ZcashFoundation

🛠️ How do we bring the next 1,000 developers to Zcash? - @ZcashFoundation

Final weekend to vote on NU7 - @zodl_app

v3.11.0 of @Zodl_app for Android is now available - @zodl_support

$ZEC pairing is now live on Signal. - @signaldotfamily

My experience exiting shielded ZEC from Zodl to NEAR Intents: $589k USDT still held 50 days despite a written compliance clearance - @timtech

ZIP-321 tells a wallet what to pay. ZecAuth adds authenticated, privacy-aware interaction - @raycre8-g

Current ways to connect to gRPC in the Zcash stack (LWD, Zaino, Zebrad, Zakura, ztreamer) - @dismad

Zcash Community Grants 🏛️

Kestrel + ZecAuth: Open Zcash Wallet Connectivity with African Fiat On/Off-Ramps - @raycre8-g

Grant Application - Research on a fully constant-time proving pipeline for open-source hardware wallet architectures, reusable for standard computers - @strahncryptography

FYI: last week I wrote the following email to the custodian (Anchorage) legal team (legal@anchorage.com) but no response - @matteo81

Grant Application - Zcash Wallet State Integrity: Self-Healing Transaction History - @Foreveranka

Hi @fdecroix! Sorry for the delay - @artkor

I’ve release v1.4.0 which solves all previous issues while providing solution to all critical issues and improvements - @rawbytedev

Zcash @ Web3Lagos 2026 Report - @Dre_Nesthub

Grant Application - 24 Videos @zkMarketer - @Connaugh

September 2026 Report - @ogasky

Hi everyone! Thanks so much, ZCG, for supporting this vision! Just want to share a few updates - @webzero

Grant Application — ZecScope (Zcash network upgrade / ZIP tracker) - @aryaethn

Grant Application - zcashlib: A Pure-JavaScript Zcash Library - @coinwallet

@FPF We are not quite a month in yet, but progress has been smooth so far - @Ellipal

[Grant Application] Zcash Marketing & Education Campaign on X and Binance Square - @Arslan_Tariq03

Grant Application - Zcash Integration in Coin Wallet (WebZjs + lightwalletd) - @coinwallet

Gleyo Update - From Building to Seeing It Used - @gilmore

Grant Application - Zcash Hack to Dark during Devcon 8, Mumbai UPDATE - @webzero

Zcash Flutter Wallet SDK - @jainhard

Quick Update On CipherScan 2026 - @Kenbak

Community Projects 🌐

Zcash Shielded News | Vol.35 - @ZecHub

Zakura Common 🌸 is a new cryptography stack for Zcash, built to make shielded operations significantly faster - @ZecHub

Zcash from First Principles | Elliptic Curves - @ZecHub

zero-indexer is moving toward deployment 🛡️- @ZecHub

Zcash Ecosystem Digest | September 6th - @ZecHub

Beyond Payments Part 4 🎞️ - @ZecHub

ztreamer v0.1.0: serving even faster - @distractedm1nd

$ZEC Shielded supply is heading back toward 5M - @Insightnerd

one thing working on @TachyonZcash has made increasingly obvious to me is that succinct proofs do not automatically give you a succinct system - @lucid

I learned last night that T. Rowe Price’s Active Crypto ETF ($TKNZ) holds $ZEC - @paulbrigner

gm shielded $ZEC holders - @dismad

Financial privacy means having a choice in what you disclose, and who you disclose it to. - @zodl_co

Today is a day that reminds us of the best and worst of the human experience, and of the essential truth that human dignity, liberty, and justice are worth defending. - @zodl_co

Thanks to Tachyon's @MariusMargulus, the new zk-SNARK prover in Zakura (and also in @vizorwallet) is the first Zcash prover with a machine-checked Lean proof of statistical honest-verifier zero-knowledge - @TachyonZcash

follow_the_zilk_road_ - @zksnarks

Zcash Has Perfect Privacy Tech - So Why Isn't Everyone Using It? | The Adoption Gap Explained - @ZcashRussia

I had a ton of fun giving this talk at the Systems Distributed ‘26 conference - @zooko

They're writing about Zcash on @Forbes now - @ZcashETF

Bitcoin is Judiasm - Zcash is Christianity - @lawzec

Red·bridge website is officially launched! - @mrkit2u

Zcash History Through Zcon: Top 40 - @ryan.taylor

Zcash Privacy Developers Residency — Module 8 Completed! - @ogasky

Contra the Zcash Dev Fund - @maxdesalle

⏰ Last Chance for ZCAP Members - ZCAP Voting for NU7 Upgrade via SIV Ends on Monday, September 14 at 20:00 Moroccan Time - @ZcashArabia

Issue 35 of Zcash News is here - @ZcashArabia

Zakura 1.4.0 has been released - @ZcashArabia

🛠️ How Do We Attract 1000 Developers to Zcash? 🗣️ - @ZcashArabia

🎙️ Zebra Talk LIVE | 09/16 at 7 PM on YouTube and X - @zcashbrazil

ZEC Trivia, a fun way to learn about privacy and Zcash - @zcashbrazil

Shielded Magazine #35 📑 - @zcashbrazil

Price generates headlines. Infrastructure builds what comes next - @zcashbrazil

Our number of weekly active users is growing exponentially, tracking the growth of Zcash - @p2pmebrasil

ZEC TRIVIA | SeaZon 2 🎯 - @zcashbrazil

ZEC now has a new gateway to the Base ecosystem - @zcashbrazil

Ground Floor of the New World | Who controls the digital infrastructure that emerges with this new world? - @zcashbrazil

BREAKING: @Trezor confirms native shielded Zcash support is in progress - @cypherpunk

🦓 START YOUR ZEBRA NODE 🔴 Community workshop - @ZkAv_Club

🚨🇬🇭 24 HOURS TO GO! 🦓🛡️ - @ZcashGH

I think its important to remember how much heart and soul it took to build during the last 6 years - @dismad

🚀 Zcash Privacy Developers Residency — Module 9 - @ZcashGH

🛡️ Module 8: Backend Development - @zoerdhub

🦓🚀 ZCASH PRIVACY DEVELOPERS RESIDENCY — MODULE 8 COMPLETED - @ZcashGH

🦓🚀 ZCASH PRIVACY DEVELOPERS RESIDENCY — MODULE 7 COMPLETED! - @ZcashGH

🦓🇬🇭 ZCASH PRIVACY DEVELOPERS RESIDENCY — MODULE 8! 🚀 - @ZcashGH

🦓 Zcash Privacy Developers Residency — Module 6 Completed! - @ZcashGH

🦓✨ We had a SPECIAL GUEST at the @Zcash Privacy Developers Residency! 🇬🇭🇳🇬🇹🇬 -ZcashGH

🛡️ SHIELD UP! 🦓 - @ZcashGH

if you’re a developer looking for a way to learn, contribute and build on @Zcash - @FavourAbidoye

🦓🇬🇭 Support the Zcash Privacy Developers Residency! 🚀 - @ZcashGH

If you’re a developer looking for a way to learn, build and contribute to @Zcash, this is worth checking out. 🛡️💻 - @gilmore

🦓🇬🇭 ZCASH PRIVACY DEVELOPERS RESIDENCY — MODULE 6 TODAY! 🚀 - @ZcashGH

Windows users? This may help: $ZEC - @dismad

🦓🇬🇭 ZCASH PRIVACY DEVELOPERS RESIDENCY — MODULE 5 COMPLETED! 🚀 - @ZcashGH

🦓🇹🇬🇳🇬 WELCOME TO NIGERIA, LABORE! 🚀 - @ZcashGH

🦓🏡 A HOME FOR BUILDERS: ZCASH PRIVACY DEVELOPERS RESIDENCY 🚀 - @ZcashGH

🦓🇬🇭 ZCASH PRIVACY DEVELOPERS RESIDENCY — MODULE 4 COMPLETED! 🚀 - @ZcashGH

🦓🇬🇭 ZCASH PRIVACY DEVELOPERS RESIDENCY — MODULE 5 IS BACK! 🚀 - @ZcashGH

One thing this Zcash session made clear - @Labore

🚨🦓 ZCASH PRIVACY DEVELOPERS RESIDENCY — MODULE 4 IS LIVE! 🛡️ - @ZcashGH

I came from Togo 🇹🇬 to Nigeria 🇳🇬 to learn about privacy - @Labore

🦓🇬🇭 ZCASH GHANA IS DOING IT AGAIN! 🚀 - @ZcashGH

Your bank knows what you spend - @Labore

🚀 Day 5 at the Zcash Privacy Developers Residency! - @zoerdhub

Grok can now trade and manage a portfolio on Coinbase - @dismad

🚀💛 $ZEC JUST HIT $1,200! 💛🚀 - @ZcashGH

📃 ZCASH ECOSYSTEM SUMMARY by ZecHub in 🇪🇸 - @zcashesp

Base offers its token wrapped in ZEC - @zcashesp

The recording of the "Zcash Arborist Call" meeting is now available - @zcashesp

Tasks in Spanish in ZecHub's Dework 🛡🛡 - @zcashesp

Do you need to recover the ZEC that you have held in your old ZecWallet Lite wallet? - @zcashesp

📃 Zcash Shielded News | @zechub.bsky.social on 🇪🇸 - @zcashesp

In this live stream, @zcastesp.bsky.social will break down how to create local economic circuits where people and businesses can exchange goods and services using Zcash, protecting their data and building financial independence - @zcashesp

Onboarded kingjayce Inc to zcash, you can now buy garget and pay with $ZEC - @Great Ngozi

🛡️ Zcon7 Program Now Live: Preparing for the Future - @ZcashTR

We have now tested all variations of the escrow models across different devices and confirmed that everything is working smoothly without any issues - @ZecMarket

Within the scope of Rlay Blockchain Week, in the Mini Hackathon we organized with @ZcashTR, students developed their ideas, prepared their projects, and finally took the stage to present within 48 hours - @RlayTV

🚀 Zakura 1.4.0 Released! - @ZcashTR

🛡️ Zcash Foundation Engineering Update - @ZcashTR

🛡️ Zcash Shielded News | Volume 35 - @ZcashTR

Small addition to Vizor: you can now support our work directly from the wallet - @vizorwallet

New Zakura Release: 1.4.0 - @ZakuraZcash

The Zcash Coinholders and Zcash Community Advisory Panel are voting on Network Upgrade 7 Scope by September 14th 19:00 UTC to decide - @Zcash

Across the United States, policymakers are reconsidering how large data centers should interact with the electric grid - @pgpzcash

My position hasn't changed yet: $ZEC - @dismad

🛡️ The Math Behind Zcash: Elliptic Curves - @ZcashTR

ZEC Market's launch is moving to September 22 - @ZecMarket

Hello Taipei 👋 We are hosting a Zcash dinner on the 13th of September, during the ETH Taipei Week - @ZcashLabs

ZEC Market launch has been postponed to September 22 - @ZcashTR

The Shielded Labs Team is an independent, donation-funded Zcash support organization - @noir_wallet

Noir Wallet v1.0.36 is now available: - @noir_wallet

> @noir_wallet > status: approved > witness: 1 available - @snarklist

Options trading is now available on $ZCSH, the world's first Zcash fund, built by @Grayscale, on @NYSE - @ZcashETF

Bitcoin $BTC miner rewards: ~$35 million per day Zcash $ZEC miner rewards: ~$2 million per day - @Grayscale

🦓 START YOUR ZEBRA NODE 🔴 | Community Workshop - @ZcashTR

JUST IN: 6 days left to vote on NU7 - @cypherpunk

$ZCSH, the world's first Zcash fund, is now available for options trading on @NYSE - @Grayscale

🛡️ Exciting Development from Trezor for Zcash Users - @ZcashTR

🫡 we’re on it—regulatory and legislative! - @pgpzcash

🛡️ Zcash Arborist Call - @ZcashTR

JUST IN: a longtime Zcash holder, Dory, has donated 200 ZEC to Shielded Labs - @cypherpunk

@distractedm1nd has shipped ztreamer v0.1.0, the Zcash indexer built for fast backfill, now much faster at serving. - @cypherpunk

Huge thanks to Dory, a true Zcash patriot, for donating 200 ZEC (roughly $235,000) to Shielded Labs - @aquietinvestor

🛡️ Zcash Ecosystem Summary - @ZcashTR

The encrypted money will also be the one which will scale to planetary scale - @ZcashLabs

Tachyon is the most ambitious project right now - @ZcashLabs

Behold, @zkDragon's legendary tour of Zcash's cryptography code - @ebfull

Once again, a bunch of improvements for Zcash's network health and, as a bonus, optimizations that make shielded wallets faster. - @ebfull

🛡️ Is Zcash's Sprout Era Coming to an End? - @ZcashTR

🚀 ZakuraZcash 1.4.0 Released! - @ZcashIND

ZcashIND Live #06 is out. 🦓🇮🇳 - @ZcashIND

What are Zero-Knowledge Proofs?🦓🚀 - @ZcashIND

ZM ZM!🦓 New bounty is live 🚀 - @ZcashIND

➥ @Zcash didn’t become a $20B asset because people suddenly remembered privacy - @zordcrypt

🛡️ @Zcash Ecosystem Summary 🦓🚀 - @ZcashIND

Update for the community ‼️- @ZcashEastAfrica

Imagine checking into a hotel in Nairobi and paying for your stay with $ZEC - @ZcashEastAfrica

African builders are helping shape the next chapter of Zcash - @ZcashEastAfrica

Your money moves every day. But how much of that financial life is actually visible to others? - @ZcashEastAfrica

Most chains give you transparent money and leave you to figure out privacy later - @ZcashEastAfrica

Join us at @ZecHub Friday Community Lounge for more information - @ZcashNames

Shielded pool approaching 5M ZEC again. - @cipherscan_app

One week left to vote on NU7. - @cipherscan_app

May 29: Orchard counterfeiting vulnerability found. Pool sealed within hours. - @cipherscan_app

ZEC-OS v1.3.1 is live - @ArtofOrb

Making something for Zcash's birthday film festival? - @ZKAv_Club

What if the real crypto alpha was a laundromat? - @ZKAv_Club

When you're early, you can't wait for the industry to protect you. - @ZKAv_Club

🔥 WE’RE LIVE! ⚡ Learn how Zebra Nodes work, their architecture, privacy features, and connection to the Zcash network 🛡️- @ZkAv_Club

Starting a new effort, @justshieldme - @USCMigs

Day 2 was lit🛡️ - @thedrekal

Building Nozy Agent: Private Infrastructure for the Next Generation of Zcash Tools - @Nozywallet

i've been working on this project i've named Pools - @ArtofOrb

We invited 11 other crypto brands to compete in the first ever Crypto Bowl fantasy football league🏈 - @Gemini

Entries CLOSED. 🌴 - @LiveZEC

Day 1 was a blast - @thedrekal

Reminder that you can offramp to 10+ countries with @peerxyz using @Zelle @monzo @Chime or @Revolut without KYC right from your wallet - @JustZappIt

JUST IN: Grayscale’s $ZCSH ranks in the top 1% of nearly 4,000 ETPs for net asset growth - @cryptodotnews

SNARKLIST applications are closed. Approvals are not. - @zksnarks_

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What's in your wallet? - @zodl_app

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