Zcash Ecosystem Digest | September 21st

Zashi Unveils CrossPay Feature, PGP for Crypto in Washington DC, Town hall on Coinholder Directed Retroactive Grants and Updates from Global Communities!

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Network Stats | September 14th - 21st

Transfer Count: 44,815 
O: 7420
S: 2524 
T: 34,871

Transaction Count: 18,717 
O: 2718
S: 1347
T: 14,759 

Net Flow (+OUT,-IN)
O: 8799
S: -3401

Chain Supply (ZEC): 16,225,512
O: 2,914,288
S: 855,260
T: 12,430,181
SP: 25,781
Lockbox: 64,892

Total Shielded Supply: 3,795,330

Node Count: 70
Zebra 2.5.0: 16
Zebra 2.4.2: 2
Zebra 2.3.0: 4
zcashd 6.3.0: 43
zcashd 6.2.0: 5

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Zcash Updates ⓩ

ECC, Zcash Foundation & Shielded Labs 🛠️

• Why is Zashi's privacy-preserving CrossPay feature a major milestone for the crypto industry? - Zashi App

• Zcash isn't just a hedge, it's a better Bitcoin. — Shielded Labs

• Zcash Arborist Call — September 18, 2025 — Zcash Foundation (YouTube)

• Crossing the chasm. Zcash Update - Josh Swihart

• Paul Brigner - The future of Fintech by Center for Governance & Markets

• PGP* for Crypto Briefings & Roundtable (Sept 2025) — @Zcash

Zcash Community Grants 🏛️

• ZCG Meeting Minutes: September 15th 2025

• ZCG Guidance for Non-Technical Applications

• Zcash Global Turkish Q3–Q4 Report — @Batuhan

• Zaino, the Zallet Release Grant Approved

• Zcash YouTube Promotion Videos — @chadwickmbailey

• Rust repo for MFKDF now live — @multifactor

• Grant Proposal: Zcash Arabia Q4 — @ZArabia

Community Projects 🌐

• 'Tear down this walled garden' Ian Miers & Peter Van Valkenburgh - Coincenter

• Freedom engineered in code — @arjunkhemani

• feels like Zcash is at a social tipping point - ssaintleger

• Zcash Z3 updates (formerly Zcash deprecation) | September 19th — pacu

• Talking with Pittmut about Zenith - Zcash Espanol

• Who wants to be a Zcasher - Zcash Espanol

• Zcash + Zashi are the best ways to use crypto daily — @michae2xl

• Bought $ZEC, “a dinosaur coin from 2016” with confidential transactions — @DefiIgnas

• ZONE Z - How "Game Theory" explains your daily choices, every game has a strategy - Zcash Brazil

• Zk Av Club Foundry #8: Privacy-first calls & workshops — @ryan_taylor

• Town Hall | Coinholder Directed Grants — @ZecHub

• Zcash for freelancers & remote teams — @Zcash_ua

• Custom ledger for Zcash - Michae2xl

• Project Tachyon: Zcash = privacy on a planetary scale — @Zcash_ua

• Retroactive Grant Requests open until Oct 12 — @zooko

• New updates on Z explorer - carover0

• Zcash Basketball Tournament in Dnipro — @Zcash_ua

• New Co-captains: Roosevelt Gordones & Aura Brito for Zk Av Club Workshops — @ryan.taylor

• Privacy Hour 01 - NYM Podcast + Zcash announced - Zcash Brazil

• Discover Zingo! App — @ZingoLabs

• Zcash = mathematically guaranteed privacy — @jenkin27

• Zcash For Beginners - Zcash Espanol

• Spotify now features Zcash content every Wednesday on Brazil's largest web3 education hub - Michae2xl

• Zcash Block Explorer Directory — @thecodebuffet

• ZecHub: the first Zcash ecosystem DAO — @zcashkorea

• Crosslink Economics Stimulator — @zooko

• My Zcash Investment Thesis — @thefrankbraun

• Zashi CrossPay sends shielded $ZEC to BTC, ETH, SOL, AVAX & more — @ZecHub

• Largest crypto × human rights gathering (free) — @web3privacy

• “Now is the perfect time to contribute to Zcash” — @ZcashTR

• Shielded ZEC in Orchard pool grew from 500k → 3M in 12 months — @ssaintleger

Meme of the week 😊

https://x.com/runningZcash/status/1969105314831126937

Jobs in the Ecosystem

• Dework Tasks posted every Monday - ZecHub