Zcash Ecosystem Digest | May 18th

Zcash at Consensus2025, New information about Project Tachyon & Upcoming Crosslink Milestone 2 Workshop!

Curated by Rems_gk

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Network Stats | May 11th - 18th

Transfer Count: 42,269 
O: 7431 
S: 1965 
T: 32,873 

Transaction Count: 16,916 
O: 2537 
S: 1052 
T: 14,428 

Net Flow (+OUT,-IN)
O: -42,505
S: -2775

Chain Supply (ZEC): 16,026,841
O: 2,117,949
S: 833,416
T: 13,049,649
SP: 25,824
Lockbox: 37,801

Total Shielded Supply: 2,977,191

Node Count: 84
Zebra 2.3.0: 6
Zebra 2.2.0: 11
Zebra 2.1.1: 1
zcashd 6.2.0: 65
zcashd 6.0.0: 1

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Zcash Updates ⓩ

ECC, Zcash Foundation & Shielded Labs 🛠️

• Engineering update for Sprint 9 (April 28th - May 9th) is now live! - Zcash Foundation

• Private Money in Public World - ECC

• Privacy is Normal panel at Consensus2025

• Zashi and Your Data

• Filecoin Foundation alongside ECC at Consensus2025

• Zashi and iCloud Privacy on iOS

• Crypto + AI are rapidly decentralizing surveillance. Fight back. Stay safe - Josh Swihart

• Shielded Labs is hosting a Crosslink Milestone #2 Workshop on Tuesday, May 20th at 12pm EDT / 4pm UTC

• Arborist Call 15/05 call recording

Zcash Community Grants 🏛️

• Grant Proposal: Zcash Extensible Wallet Interchange Format (ZeWiF)

• Zcash Z3 Updates (formerly Zcashd Deprecation)

• ZCG Meeting Minutes - 5/12/2025

• Learn How to Submit a Zcash Community Grant - ZcashCommGrants

Community Projects 🌐

• Tachyon at a distance - ebfull

• “Privacy is one of the two properties required for this civilizational foundation of unstoppable private money. Because without privacy, there is no freedom.” - Zcash

• KYC (“Know Your Customer”) laws impose huge costs and potentially devastating risks on law-abiding customers - Zooko

• Arborist Call Summary 15/05 - Zcash Nigeria

• ZEC on Maya Protocol is near - AaluxMyth

• Zcash NYC rooftop meetup 22nd May - genzcash

• Aceita Zcash (ZEC)? Cadastre seu negócio ou serviço hoje mesmo! - Zcash Brazil

• Zcash 2025’in ilk çeyrek raporunu yayımladı! 💥 - Zcash Turkey

• La privacidad en las criptomonedas está amenazada - Zcash Español

• O Rastreamento de dados oculto no seu dia a dia: Livestream - Zcash Brazil

• Zechub: Zcash Community Task Announcement

• Zcasher Community Forum Wishlist - Zcash Nigeria

• Confidentiality is not important until one day it becomes important - ruZcash

• Privacy Guardians: Privacy Protection News

• The next Foundry session 30th May will be about Contests for your live events - GordonesTV

• Zerodartz: Zcash Community Update

• ZIP 234 📊 - Zcash Español

• 🚨 Zcash Tarayıcıda! - Zcash Turkey

Meme of the week 😊

https://x.com/modularcrypto/status/1922662661709332536

Jobs in the Ecosystem

• Dework Tasks posted every Monday - ZecHub