Sovright

US 501(c3) non-profit dedicated to supporting human autonomy. Starting with infra for unstoppable private money @Zcash

fka Electric Coin Co / Bootstrap Org

[Sovright @sovright_]

The Sovright relay and benchmarking infrastructure detected an unusual series of transactions on the Zcash network today between blocks 3,558,965 and 3,560,006

Here is what the network saw:

[zmanian @zmanian]

What is up with the @zcash mempool spike?

[Sovright @sovright_]

Happy Nu7 everyone.

Uneventful upgrade for the relay network.

Argos users will no longer be able to recover sprout funds.

We will have an Argos upgrade shortly.

[sudo_ml @sudo_ml]

Want to know what the Zcash community is thinking without the drama?

We built Zenzcash: AI summaries, rewrites that take the heat out of inflammatory language, filters for tone or account age, audio playback, tools to explore posts with your own AI, and more

Built by @DefuseSec and I over the weekend, and born out of small-group workshops at @ZcashFoundation's Zcon in Cancún last week. We’d love your feedback!

Links below 👇

[Jason McGee 🛡 @aquietinvestor]

I’m seeing a lot of questions about how the debate over ZCG and the Dev Fund will move forward and what happens to the proposals that have been put forward.

I posted an overview of how Zcash governance currently works on the Forum:

https://t.co/SSAKvPxVc6

[Dev @zkDragon]

For people asking "Why not Ironwood", Zcash has a weird quirk with Sprout, where it can only go to Sapling.

Its not possible to single transaction go from Sprout to Ironwood. I assume they used the flow @sovright_ 's tooling presented!

Great job supporting this user!

[Sovright @sovright_]

We got all your Zakura 1.8 vs Zebra 7.1 vs Zebra 7.0 benchmarks right here

https://t.co/ebkppJNmUJ

[Zakura @ZakuraZcash]

New Zakura Release: 1.8.0

This release improves security by removing even more unnecessary code dependencies. Performance around block propagation, processing and mining flows has been enhanced as well. Read on to find out how we benchmarked:

https://t.co/bdhhAFvrtv

[Sovright @sovright_]

Andale is live on on our node observatory.

https://t.co/VHh5dJXm2I

initial data looks promising

[Zcash Foundation 🛡️ @ZcashFoundation]

🦓 💨: Meet Zebra Ándale (7.1.0-alpha.0): the fastest Zebra yet.

Miners spoke at Zcon7. We listened - and shipped:
☄️ Blazing fast mining
🚀 Faster block acceptance and relay
🛠️ Better mining pool support

Less waiting. More mining.

Test Zebra Ándale alongside your current node and tell us what you find. 👉️ https://t.co/KOYzsjAwoT

Full update 👉️ https://t.co/YwIW4pRvu3

[Sovright @sovright_]

There are less than 6 days left to get funds out the Sprout pool.

Argos 1.6.1 downloads a cache from sprout transactions from Google Cloud or GitHub enabling syncing in under a day.

https://t.co/7QITKSNs6e

[Sovright @sovright_]

It's been 10 years since @Zcash was born and finally Zero Knowledge proofs are going mainstream.

[Succinct @SuccinctLabs]

Introducing the definitive guide to ZK in 2026.

The year’s biggest questions pointed to ZK: Can we trust AI? Will quantum break encryption? Can private money live on public rails? How do we know what’s real online?

Read how in the 2026 ZK Industry Report with @zeroknowledgefm.

[Zcash Labs @ZcashLabs]

Today, we announce Zcash JS, the ultimate JavaScript Swiss-knife for building anything with Zcash.

This allows you to build a Zcash application for the web, server, or mobile, safely and securely, with top notch DX.

What can you build with it?

Anything, from wallets, light client, data dashboards, to anything that you can imagine.

We are committed to actively maintaining it and building an ecosystem of toolings and libraries around it.

Give it a try, links in the comment 👇

[sudo_ml @sudo_ml]

A few takeaways from our recent podcast with @DeFi_Dad

1) One man's paranoia is another man's peace of mind

One of my favorite things about Zcash: I know how paranoid the people building it are. They spend their time thinking about edge cases most users never will. That’s a feature. Sometimes it feels like a bug (slow), but that's like saying pre-flight checklists are a drag on flying 🫠

2) Privacy is a basket of tools

While I prefer Zcash, I want other privacy projects to succeed too. Supporting privacy means supporting people being able to configure their choices to their practical needs. Different transactions call for different guarantees and tradeoffs 🌻🪻🌸🪷🌼🌺

3) On our redemption arc

Tidbit: when I joined the Sovright (fka ECC) board at the end of 2023, we agreed this was our last shot. Do or die. Runway was thin. For a long time, the job was staying alive. Now we, and the other Zcash orgs, can fund new work and bring in new, best-in-class talent. It's exciting! ☀️🚀

@sovright_ @zmanian

[Sovright @sovright_]

Going to deep on @Zcash with Sovright's @sudo_ml and @zmanian

[DeFi Dad ⟠ defidad.eth @DeFi_Dad]

🎙️ New @Edge_Pod

📈 The Zcash Comeback: Why Insiders Say ZEC’s Price Run Isn’t A Fluke — And Just The Beginning

0:00 - Intro
2:46 - Zaki and Sudo’s background
7:04 - What drew Zaki and Sudo to Zcash full time
12:52 - What triggered the price run for ZEC
19:02 - Two phases of Zcash’s redemption
22:04 - Why Zcash is special vs other chains
25:10 - The privacy toggle in Zodl
29:40 - How to buy ZEC privately
32:55 - The Orchard pool vulnerability
43:09 - Will shielded ZEC be safe in a PQ-world?
45:19 - Could minted ZEC be hiding in Orchard?
48:17 - The ecosystem map for Zcash
51:32 - Cypherpunk’s role (CYPH) in Zcash
54:50 - PoW vs PoS debate in Zcash
57:09 - How Zcash governance actually works
1:03:54 - What is Sovright building for Zcash?
1:08:37 - What DeFi's possible for ZEC in the future?
1:13:57 - Why Zcash is the "middle thing"
1:17:03 - Closing

🙏 Thanks to @sovright_ Project Lead @sudo_ml and Head of Engineering @zmanian for joining us!

[Sovright @sovright_]

Zakura 1.7 is now being benchmarked on https://t.co/fkPM0Lqz9o

[Zakura @ZakuraZcash]

New Zakura Release: 1.7.0

This release activates NU7 on Mainnet in ~15 days. 🎉

Learn more:

https://t.co/2VAtjdtMWC

[Sovright @sovright_]

Professor @DavidKChuenLEE has been a long time supporter of @Zcash - Sovright is delighted to engage with him.

[sudo_ml @sudo_ml]

Had a great time discussing @zcash's opportunities with @GFI_charter and @Grayscale @token2049

Soundbites:
1. Institutions: Grayscale Zcash ETF (ZCSH) among top 1% of ETF launches, reaching $1 bn net assets within a month in September 2026
(scope: ETF launches in past 10 years, i.e. ~4,000 funds) @Krista_Lynch_

2. Marketing: Zcash has been great at doing deep tech and hard math, but marketing is not our strong suit (heh). We need quality new blood to help us with telling the story to more users, more regulators @DavidKChuenLEE

3. Decentralizing: Zcash has achieved @zooko's longtime vision of decentralizing across multiple orgs, including (but not limited to!) @sovright_ @ZcashFoundation @ShieldedLabs @ebfull @zkDragon @ValarGroup

4. Pricacy spicy take: not every market cares as much about privacy. Spreading the privacy message globally requires thoughful in-market engagement

[Sovright @sovright_]

Get real time alterts if the nodes disagree with each other.

https://t.co/TiUYbnDNRr

[Zcash 🛡️ @Zcash]

Zcash now has two independent full-node implementations enforcing the same rules:

Zebra: https://t.co/mCIAgupAub
Zakura: https://t.co/MEIRCcgzCZ

Does a second client actually change how decentralized the network is, or is hashpower still the only thing that matters? $ZEC

[Sovright @sovright_]

Join us on Monday in Singapore to talk about Zcash going institutional - finally!

[Grayscale @Grayscale]

Financial privacy just went institutional. Regulators are paying attention.

Grayscale Investments, the world's largest digital asset-focused investment platform¹, joins @GFI_charter at @token2049 Singapore on Monday, October 5, for a panel discussion on privacy-preserving assets and Asia's regulatory ecosystem.

Panelists include:
↳ @zooko, Founder of @Zcash
↳ @Krista_Lynch_, Head of Trading and Capital Markets at Grayscale Investments
↳ @sudo_ml, Executive Chair, @sovright_
↳ @liz315, CEO, @LeastAuthority & GFI Industry Fellow
↳ Moderated by Prof @DavidKChuenLEE, Chairman, Global Fintech Institute.

Register here: https://t.co/dXbaZP1O5t

[Sovright @sovright_]

Now live on https://t.co/SVyhQxDnAt

[Zakura @ZakuraZcash]

New Zakura Release: 1.6.0

This release adds Testnet support for NU7! Activation is approximately October 6.

Several performance improvements in this release speed up block verification, gossip and syncing.

https://t.co/eXGOxAYDO0

[Sovright @sovright_]

Time is running out to get your funds out of the Sprout pool.

Get Argos at https://t.co/6kmEc7uDJq

[Sovright @sovright_]

Rescued by Argos

[Shielded Flow🛡️ⓩ @ShieldedFlow]

𝗝𝗨𝗦𝗧 𝗜𝗡: 🔄 MIGRATION ALERT 🔄

🔄 A wallet just migrated 21,462.95 ZEC ($30.36M) from the Sapling pool into the Ironwood pool

🔗 Txn Hash: https://t.co/ZSx94yeGWn

🛡 Total shielded ZEC across all pools: 4,891,314.11 ZEC ($6.92B)