Zcash Ecosystem Digest | May 4th

New Version Zashi 2.0, Dev Fund Poll results, Zkool demo & Updates from across the Community!

Curated by Gorga Siagian

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Network Stats | Apr 27th - May 4th

Transfer Count: 38,522
O: 5483
S: 1834
T: 31,205

Transaction Count: 15,523
O: 1956 
S: 973 
T: 12,729  

Net Flow (+OUT,-IN)
O: -71742
S: 241

Chain Supply (ZEC): 16,040,479
O: 1,993,501
S: 837,635
T: 13,148,616
SP: 25,824
Lockbox: 34,901

Total Shielded Supply: 2,856,962

Node Count: 86
Zebra 2.2.0: 19
Zebra 2.1.1: 1
Zebra 2.1.0: 1
zcashd 6.2.0: 58
zcashd 6.1.0: 1
zcashd 6.0.0: 5

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Zcash Updates ⓩ

ECC, Zcash Foundation & Shielded Labs 🛠️

• Zcash Z3 updates (formerly Zcashd Deprecation)

• Zcash Arborist Call 05-01-2025

• ZF Engineering Update: 2025 Sprint 8 (Apr 14 - Apr 25)

• Shielded Dialogues #2: Coinholder Voting

• Results of ZCAP Dev Fund Poll

• Community Polling on Funding Model ZIPs

• They Grow Up So Fast: Zashi 2.0

• FROST Demo Audit: frost-client and frostd

• In early 2025, @BlockchainComns architected & engineered a major project for the @Zcash blockchain - @ElectricCoinCo

• Zcash Community Shapes the Future of Development Funding - @ElectricCoinCo

Zcash Community Grants 🏛️

• Zcash Community Grants (ZCG) Meeting Minutes 4/28/2025

• #PayWithZcash BTCPayServer Demo - @ZcashCommGrants

• Zcash Shielded Asset Swaps and Transaction Acceptance

• Zcash Developer Relations Engineer

• Zcash Nigeria 2025 v.2.0 ( may-july)

• ZecHub 2025: An Education Hub for Zcash Monthly Update

• Upgrade BTCPayServer Zcash Plugin for 2.1

• [Grant Update] Zcash Ecosystem Security Lead

• Zcash Brazil | 2025 Update

• Zechub DAO- Zcash Korea Ambassador Update

• Zcash Global Türkish 2025 Q2 Update

Community Projects 🌐

• Did you know over a million shielded $ZEC was used to vote!?!? READ ⤵️ ❗️ 🌶️ - @ZecHub

• Privacy by Design podcast by FT Strategies

• 1/5 A new version of zCat - @zCat_App

• Voter Info : Polls Close TODAY May 1st

• Our first LIVE workshop by Zk Av Club Foundry presented in Spanish - with live English translation! - @ZkAv_Club

• Status update & RFC: ZEC-NAM shielded airdrop protocol

• Ideas for POS to increase the value of zcash

• Zcash Airdrop Tool

• Let’s create The Zcasher Wish List

• Unified Addresses Composition

• Zk Av Club Foundry #3: Community Workshops

• ¡Ya estamos en vivo! Los esperamos en una nueva sesión de Foundry del @ZkAv_Club - @SoyAuraBrito

• New Month and New Opportunities ☀️ - @ZecHub

• Here’s your morning read Zaino Servers: Step by step - Free2Z - @thecodebuffet

• Freedom begins with knowledge... and a little ZEC. - @taminevg

• Today we released results of the ZCAP Dev Fund Poll - @ZcashFoundation

• just 🛡️ it - @Zcash

• AI | Interação Humana e Maquina - @zcashbrazil

• 🚨Comunidade Decide o Futuro do Financiamento. A comunidade Zcash tomou uma decisão crucial para o futuro do seu fundo de desenvolvimento. - @zcashbrazil

• ¿Te interesa el futuro de la toma de decisiones y la financiación dentro del ecosistema de Zcash? - @zcashesp

Meme of the week 😊

https://x.com/Zcash/status/1918351796520563051

Jobs in the Ecosystem

• Dework Tasks posted every Monday - ZecHub

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