ZKhands

Proud husband and father, catholic. #Zcash ZCG member.

One day, you'll start caring about your on-chain privacy.

[Barry Silbert @BarrySilbert]

Fascinating to see how certain individuals are spinning as a negative the fantastic work by the Zcash developer community to identify and remediate a vulnerability

The AI-enabled assault on blockchains is here and I'm proudly on Team Zcash

[Jacob Gadikian @Senpai_Gideon]

How did Zcash stop Orchard transactions without violating decentralization?

Since the announcement of a halt in Orchard transactions, I saw a lot of justified concern about "How is it possible to stop these transactions if Zcash is decentralized?"

The answer is really cool!

Proof of work networks like Zcash depend on mining to produce new blocks. Miners are organized around mining pools, which aggregate mining hash power.

In order to stop the Orchard pool, Zcash shipped a binary to miners, who have an interest in the viability of the network, which disabled Orchard transactions. There's no magic switch in the code, but instead, the transactions were disabled in a decentralized manner, relying on the miners self-interest in ensuring that Zcash isn't compromised.

What didn't happen:

* Miners were not forced to run new binaries, each one had to make their own decision for what software to run, and they got to evaluate the new release and choose voluntarily to run software that disabled Orchard transactions.

* The orchard pool wasn't remotely deactivated with a transaction or network feature that would mess up decentralization.

The orchard tx pause was an elegant solution to a very difficult problem on a live, decentralized network executed entirely by voluntary coordination between network participants.

[À Block 🛡 @aBlock0]

20 reasons why zcash is going to 250k+

1. zcash is literally the only viable candidate for global digital cash. period.

2. it brings cryptographic privacy to a space that has slowly devolved into open-source surveillance.

3. bitcoin was engineered to be peer-to-peer electronic cash but got lazy and settled for ossified digital gold.

4. humans have never been this heavily surveilled. on-chain privacy isn't a feature; it's survival infrastructure.

5. the engineering talent density is unmatched: zooko, bowe, zkdragon, the zodl team. elite builders don't stick around ghost chains.

6. the culture is built to relentlessly ship and push boundaries: pioneered zk-SNARKs, now pioneering quantum-resistant recovery layers.

7. zero predatory VCs, zero saylor premium, zero institutional overhead pushing for the kind of ossification that kills protocols long-term.

8. architected from day one to scale for billions of people via massive pipeline upgrades like tachyon and next-gen shielded wallets.

9. there is literally zero competition. zcash is natively encrypted. everything else is a transparent public ledger or a clunky, mixed-in band-aid.

10. the onboarding narrative is ridiculously simple: "you can buy bitcoin at $555 today." it's just bitcoin but private and actually unstoppable.

11. the reflexivity loop is violent: price ticks up -> new buyers enter -> more zec enters the shielded pool -> circulating supply collapses -> price rockets.

12. the deepest bitcoin OGs are quietly positioned: winklevoss, naval, balaji, barry silbert... and zooko literally worked at digicash and wrote the first blog post to ever mention bitcoin.

13. bitcoin paved the dirt path from magic internet money to digital gold. zcash is building the hyper-highway: absolute encrypted money for billions.

14. transparent blockchains are an inherent bug for enterprise adoption. no real business is broadcasting its entire treasury, payroll, and margin to competitors on a public ledger.

15. transparent coins face a terminal fungibility crisis because of taint. zcash solves this mathematically: one shielded ZEC is always indistinguishable from another.

16. regulatory compliance does not require financial doxxing. viewing keys let you selectively disclose transaction history to an auditor without leaking your net worth to the timeline.

17. the ux barrier is officially dead. shielding used to require a complex cypherpunk ritual; now it's a seamless, 1-click native default in modern wallets (zodl...)

18. proof-of-work bootstrapping is the only way to launch a truly sovereign network without a cabal of insiders pre-mining the supply and dumping on retail.

19. Wall Street completely financialized and captured bitcoin to extract value from retail via proxies. zcash remains the untamable, raw cypherpunk asset.

20. the second the global market realizes a transparent public ledger is a permanent surveillance weapon, privacy flips from a luxury to an absolute human right. that's when the repricing hits.

[ZKhands @ZkHands]

@StarPlatinum_ This young guy must be the real Satoshi ?

[mert @mert]

zcash is on the wall street journal today

probably nothing

[ZKhands @ZkHands]

@KeystoneWallet @Zcash @zodl_app @jswihart 🛡️

[erigon.eth @ErigonEth]

🚀 Erigon v3.4 "Splashing Saga" is live!

Delivering stability, performance, and efficiency at ChainTip:

⚡️ 4× smaller chaindata, faster startup, 5 new RPC methods, and precise resource controls for public endpoints.

🤖 Plus the first Ethereum client with a native MCP server allowing you to query your node in natural language.

https://t.co/7bL6GRt0Gx

#Erigon @ethereum @gnosischain

[Robinhood @RobinhoodApp]

$ZEC is now available to trade on Robinhood Crypto, including NY.

[ZKhands @ZkHands]

In early November 2025, @gnosischain quietly soft-forked to freeze funds from the Balancer exploit—then executed a full hard fork in December to revert it and recover the stolen assets.

This week, @arbitrum 's Security Council froze 30,766 ETH after the Kelp DAO hack.

Hacks are damaging DeFi’s credibility. But forks and emergency fund freezes are far more dangerous—they erode the immutability and trust that blockchains are built on.

The only neutral, battle-tested settlement layer is still Ethereum.

#ETH

[erigon.eth @ErigonEth]

Introducing Cocoon, the private ledger infrastructure for regulated institutions.

Built on Zilkworm and Erigon Client, Cocoon bridges the gap between privacy, compliance, and verifiability:
→ Users authenticate via onchain enterprise identity
→ No wallets or crypto UX required
→ Regulators verify proofs
→ Protocol-level compliance enforcement

Read the full announcement → https://t.co/CWiG1cg3gv

#Zilkworm #EVM #Ethereum #RISCV #ZKVM

[RYAN SΞAN ADAMS - rsa.eth 🦄 @RyanSAdams]

U.S. Treasury lifted sanctions on Tornado Cash.

DOJ said it won't target mixers for end-user crimes.

Treasury says lawful users may use mixers for privacy.

Trump says war on crypto is over.

So why are they still coming after @rstormsf?

Watch what they do not what they say.

[Sasha Hodder @sashahodler]

The U.S. Treasury now admits that crypto mixers have legitimate privacy uses on public blockchains.

So why are the Samourai Wallet developers sitting in jail?

Free Samourai.

[ZKhands @ZkHands]

@brave TTS to read out page content, with a language setting.

[Delphi Digital @Delphi_Digital]

Zcash's shielded pool went from 11% to 30% of total supply in a single year.

This is more growth than the previous eight years combined.

Users are actively moving coins into the shielded pool and keeping them there. Shielded ZEC tends to be stickier, acting as a supply sink that removes coins from circulation.

Three things changed in the last two years: the cryptography no longer requires any trust assumptions, mobile wallets actually work, and Near Intents gave users a non-custodial way to rotate into ZEC from any chain.

In the last 30 days alone, ZEC has done $285M in volume on Near Intents versus $348M for BTC.

That adoption is built on real cryptographic guarantees.

The privacy is information-theoretically hidden. Sender, receiver, and amount are all encrypted in a way that makes transactions mathematically indistinguishable from one another.

Every shielded transaction cryptographically proves no coins were counterfeited without revealing any transaction details. There's no information for a quantum computer to extract.

The next phase is scaling. Orchard eliminated the trusted setup entirely and became the default shielded pool.

Tachyon comes next, reworking how transactions are validated and batched to push throughput toward the levels needed for real economic activity.

Now the privacy needs to work at scale.

[ZKhands @ZkHands]

@notcelon Where's the point, they are doing like everyone else in crypto

[erigon.eth @ErigonEth]

🚀 Erigon v3.3.7 - "Rocky Romp" is here!

This release focuses on improving P2P stability and pruning performance, and it is recommended that all users upgrade.

Here's a quick overview of what's new:
- Pruning logic improved for efficiency.
- Fixed edge cases in execution commitment state.
- Resolved P2P deadlock issues for smoother networking.
- Forward compatibility: v0 snapshot index building supported.
- Backward compatibility: Added --v5disc alias.
- Helpful defaults: --help now shows default P2P discovery values.

🌐 Full changelog: https://t.co/nJAkS3M4DS

[ZKhands @ZkHands]

@AFTSDCrypto Le soluzioni sono 2: emigrare dalla Italia oppure @bitrefill + @zashi_app per spendere le crypto in maniera discreta.

Si può sempre perdere le chiavi private e mettere tutto in #Zcash ...

[ZKhands @ZkHands]

@oobit, please fix the spelling of @paoloardoino because it seriously undermines your website's credibility.

[genzcash @genzcash]

Encrypted Chats needs Encrypted Money @elonmusk

[ZKhands @ZkHands]

@krugermacro Try the @zashi_app .

Thanks to the integration with Near Intents, you can seamlessy swap assets from and to Zcash in a private and secure way.