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⚡ ZCASH PULSE — OCT 7

💰 MARKET
ZEC: $1,315.01 ▼ 1.73% 24H
Market Cap: $22.31B
Volume: $766.96M
Rank: #10

⛏ NETWORK
Height: 3,509,117
Next Halving: 897,283 blocks

🏦 ZCSH ETF
Net Assets: $789.34M ▲ 0.94%
Market Price: $36.07
Settled Flow: $0
As of: Oct 6

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🚨 NEW ON ZECZCASH — WINKLEVOSS ZCASH ETF!

🏦 The Winklevoss Twins Are Bringing Zcash Into the ETF Spotlight!

Following the official SEC filing for a proposed Spot Zcash ETF, we've published two new in-depth articles covering the latest developments.

🔍 Inside the articles:
🔹 Tyler & Cameron Winklevoss' involvement
🔹 Key details from the SEC filing
🔹 What this could mean for institutional ZEC adoption
🔹 What happens next in the approval process

📖 Read the full articles:

🇬🇧 English:
https://zeczcash.com/blog/winklevoss-zcash-etf

🇩🇪 German:
https://zeczcash.com/de/blog/winklevoss-zcash-etf

⚠️ Filed with the SEC — not yet approved.

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🚨 BREAKING: WINKLEVOSS FILES FOR SPOT ZCASH ETF! ⚡

The Winklevoss twins are making another major move into $ZEC!

Winklevoss Asset Services has officially filed an S-1 with the SEC for a new spot Zcash ETF.

🏦 Key Details:
🔹 Proposed ticker: WINK (Nasdaq)
🔹 Annual fee: just 0.25%
🔹 Direct ZEC holdings
🔹 Gemini as custodian
🔹 Up to $100M in potential investment interest from Winklevoss Capital

🔥 Why this matters:

Following Grayscale's ZCSH launch, another major institutional player is entering the Zcash ETF race.

More competition. More institutional exposure. More attention for financial privacy.

⚠️ SEC approval is still pending. The $100M interest is nonbinding.

🔗 Source: https://www.theblock.co

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🧠 NEW ON ZECZCASH.com

Who is Zooko Wilcox — and how did he help turn decades of cypherpunk ideas into Zcash?

Our new blog covers his story, the creation of Zcash, and what he’s building today at Shielded Labs.

🇬🇧 https://zeczcash.com/blog/zooko-wilcox-zcash-founder

🇩🇪 https://zeczcash.com/de/blog/wer-ist-zooko-wilcox

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⚡ ZCASH PULSE — OCT 6

💰 MARKET
ZEC: $1,337.25 ▲ 1.60% 24H
Market Cap: $22.69B
Volume: $805.85M
Rank: #10

🛡 PRIVACY
Shielded: 4.94M ZEC
24H: ▼ 982 ZEC
Share: 29.08% ▼ 0.01pp

⛏ NETWORK
Height: 3,507,973
Difficulty: 358,231,835
Next Halving: 898,427 blocks

🏦 ZCSH ETF
Net Assets: $781.96M
Market Price: $35.75
Settled Flow: -$3.57M
As of: Oct 5

⛓ ACTIVITY
Transactions: 7,007 ▲ 22.91%
Shielded involved: 39.22% ▲ 1.94pp
Shielded-only: 956
Mixed: 1,792
Data: Oct 5

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🇺🇸 ZCASH GETS A VOICE IN WASHINGTON

Zcash is stepping directly into the U.S. policy debate.

Pretty Good Policy for Zcash (PGPZ) has officially registered to lobby U.S. policymakers — focusing on:

🔒 Financial privacy
🛡️ Developer protections
🏛️ Digital asset regulation
📜 The CLARITY Act & crypto tax proposals

Executive Director Divij Pandya is the group's registered lobbyist, while Zcash Community Grants approved $750,000 to fund its first year.

A significant step toward giving privacy and Zcash a stronger voice in Washington.

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🔥 ZCASH NU7 IS LIVE ON TESTNET

Zcash has officially activated the NU7 network upgrade on testnet at block 4,465,026. ⚡

Key changes being tested:
⚡ Block time: 75s → 25s
🔧 v4 transactions disabled
🛡 Network Sustainability Mechanism (NSM)

This is an important milestone before the planned NU7 mainnet rollout. Mainnet activation is not live yet.

🔗 More about NU7:
zeczcash.com/blog/zcash-nu7-explained-25-second-blocks

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⚡ ZCASH PULSE — OCT 5

💰 MARKET
ZEC: $1,315.26 ▼ 0.00% 24H
Market Cap: $22.32B
Volume: $516.38M
Rank: #10

🛡 PRIVACY
Shielded: 4.94M ZEC
24H: ▲ 222 ZEC
Share: 29.09% → 0.00pp

⛏ NETWORK
Height: 3,506,807
24H Blocks: +1,155
Difficulty: 259,547,838 ▼ 4.80%
Next Halving: 899,593 blocks

🏦 ZCSH ETF
Net Assets: $751.03M ▼ 8.23%
Market Price: $34.04
Settled Flow: -$26.93M
As of: Oct 2

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📊 ZCSH ETF — WEEKLY FLOWS

Week ending Oct 2

💵 NET FLOW
This week: -$93.56M 🔻
Last week: +$35.17M

Outflow days: 4
· Inflow days: 0
· Flat days: 1
Largest day: Sep 30 · -$30.25M

📈 TOTALS
Cumulative net inflow: +$212.56M
Net assets: $751.03M ▼ 24.6% vs last week

🗓 LAST 6 WEEKS
Oct 2: -$93.56M
Sep 25: +$35.17M
Sep 18: +$98.21M
Sep 11: +$101.89M
Sep 4: +$57.96M
Aug 28: +$12.89M

First weekly net outflow since ZCSH launched.

📊 Full daily history:
https://zeczcash.com/etf/zcsh

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⚡ ZCASH PULSE — OCT 4

💰 MARKET
ZEC: $1,332.91 ▲ 1.31% 24H
Market Cap: $22.53B
Volume: $626.20M
Rank: #10

🛡 PRIVACY
Shielded: 4.94M ZEC
24H: ▲ 362 ZEC
Share: 29.09% → 0.00pp

⛏ NETWORK
Height: 3,505,737
24H Blocks: +1,196
Difficulty: 211,023,109
Next Halving: 900,663 blocks

🏦 ZCSH ETF
Net Assets: $751.03M ▼ 8.23%
Market Price: $34.04
Settled Flow: -$26.93M
As of: Oct 2

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🛡️ New Guide: Buy Zcash Without KYC

Want ZEC without an exchange account or ID upload?

We compare the main options — NEAR Intents, Maya Protocol, THORChain, Bisq & Atomic Swaps.

👉 https://zeczcash.com/blog/buy-zcash-without-kyc

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🔐 CAN YOU STAKE ZCASH?

One of the most common questions around ZEC right now: Can you actually stake Zcash?

Short answer: Not on mainnet — Zcash is still Proof of Work.

But that could change.

⚡ Crosslink is a proposed PoW + PoS hybrid for Zcash and is currently being tested on a test network.

In our new guide we explain:
🔹 How Crosslink could bring staking to Zcash
🔹 Why ZEC cannot currently be staked natively
🔹 Ways people try to earn yield on ZEC today
🔹 The risks behind exchange “Earn” and lending
🔹 How mining compares with staking
🔹 ZEC staking scams and fake validators to avoid

Important: Crosslink is NOT live on Zcash mainnet and there is currently no confirmed mainnet activation date.

Read the full guide 👇
🌐 https://zeczcash.com/blog/zcash-staking

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📊 NEW: ZCASH HIGH INCOME ETF — EXPLAINED

Grayscale has filed for a new Zcash-related fund: the ZCSH High Income ETF.

But this one works very differently from the existing ZCSH ETF.

🔹 It doesn't directly hold ZEC
🔹 It uses options on ZCSH
🔹 Covered calls generate premium income
🔹 Distributions are planned every two weeks
⚠️ The trade-off: potential upside is capped while downside risk remains

We broke down the SEC filing, how the strategy works, the risks and the expected timeline in our new guide 👇

🌐 https://zeczcash.com/blog/zcash-income-etf

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🚨 RAOUL PAL: ASSET SEIZURES COULD STRENGTHEN THE CASE FOR ZCASH

Macro investor and Real Vision founder Raoul Pal is pointing to another potential driver for privacy assets like Zcash: the risk of state asset seizures.

Pal argues that the possibility of confiscation gives people a reason to keep part of their wealth outside traditional systems and beyond direct government reach.

“I think just confiscation of state assets is a big deal.”

In a recent discussion, Pal also described Zcash as increasingly taking on the role of a “privacy version of Bitcoin” and confirmed that his funds hold ZEC.

His broader thesis: growing financial surveillance, geopolitical uncertainty and demand for private digital money could strengthen the long-term use case for privacy-focused cryptocurrencies.

Privacy is no longer just a crypto feature.

It is becoming part of the global monetary debate.

🎥 Watch the clip below.

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⚡ ZCASH PULSE — OCT 3

💰 MARKET
ZEC: $1,317.56 ▼ 5.04% 24H
Market Cap: $22.35B
Volume: $822.86M
Rank: #10

🛡 PRIVACY
Shielded: 4.94M ZEC
24H: ▼ 6,693 ZEC
Share: 29.09% ▼ 0.04pp

⛏ NETWORK
Height: 3,504,489
24H Blocks: +1,150
Difficulty: 249,980,852 ▼ 20.65%
Next Halving: 901,911 blocks

🏦 ZCSH ETF
Net Assets: $751.03M ▼ 8.23%
Market Price: $34.04
Settled Flow: -$26.93M
As of: Oct 2

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📊 Zcash ETF (ZCSH) — September 2026

September was a strong month for Grayscale’s Zcash ETF $ZCSH, recording +$245.9M in net inflows across 21 trading days.

📈 12 inflow days
📉 4 outflow days
➖ 5 days with no net flow

🔥 Biggest inflow: Sep 8 — +$112.1M
🔻 Biggest outflow: Sep 30 — −$30.3M
🏦 Net assets at month end: $875.9M

Explore the complete September report, including the daily flow chart and historical data:

https://zeczcash.com/etf/zcsh/2026-09

Data: SoSoValue · Not financial advice

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⚡ CAKE WALLET MOVES ZCASH BACKEND TO ZAKURA

Cake Wallet has upgraded its Zcash infrastructure, switching its backend from Zebra to Zakura. 🌸

According to Cake Wallet, Zakura responds to requests significantly faster — resulting in quicker and more responsive syncing for Zcash users.

🔹 Zcash backend upgraded to Zakura
🔹 Faster request handling
🔹 Quicker wallet synchronization
🔹 Another real-world deployment of the new Zcash node infrastructure

A meaningful infrastructure upgrade happening behind the scenes — but one users can actually feel.

Faster infrastructure. Better Zcash experience. ⚡

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🚨 ZCASH NU7 IS NOW CODE-COMPLETE IN ZEBRA

Another major milestone for Zcash.

NU7 is now code-complete in Zebra, moving Zcash's next network upgrade closer to activation.

🦓 Testnet activation:
Block 4,465,026
📅 Mainnet activation height: expected to be set October 20
🚀 Planned mainnet activation: November 5, 2026

NU7 is a significant upgrade for the Zcash network, with major protocol changes including the move toward 25-second block times.

The next phase is testing.

Onward. 🦓⚡

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⚡ ZCASH IS NOW LIVE ON THORCHAIN

The $ZEC pool is officially live on THORChain.

Following the network churn, THORChain nodes are now watching the Zcash blockchain — giving ZEC a new permissionless route into THORChain’s cross-chain ecosystem.

🔹 ZEC pool is live
🔹 THORChain nodes are watching Zcash
🔹 No centralized intermediary required
🔹 Trading is the next step

Liquidity is still shallow in the early stage and is expected to grow over time.

Another major piece of infrastructure for Zcash is now in place.

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⚡ ZCASH PULSE — OCT 2

💰 MARKET
ZEC: $1,389.03 ▼ 3.20% 24H
Market Cap: $23.51B
Volume: $1.19B
Rank: #10

🛡 PRIVACY
Shielded: 4.94M ZEC
24H: ▼ 254 ZEC
Share: 29.13%

⛏ NETWORK
Height: 3,503,360
24H Blocks: +1,195
Difficulty: 287,022,111 ▲ 13.67%
Next Halving: 903,040 blocks

🏦 ZCSH ETF
Net Assets: $818.38M ▼ 6.57%
Market Price: $35.12
Settled Flow: -$28.26M
As of: Oct 1

⛓ ACTIVITY
Transactions: 7,448 ▼ 5.16%
Shielded involved: 38.20%
Shielded-only: 752
Mixed: 2,093
Data: Oct 1

🟢 DATA HEALTH
Market • Privacy • Network • ZCSH • Activity
ALL SYSTEMS OK

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