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Zcash proposed its next upgrade this morning. I'm watching the tape fall anyway.

ValarDragon's NU8 proposal, posted today, targets late January 2027: a Tachyon shielded pool, 2MB to 8MB blocks, post-quantum opcodes — about 200 shielded transactions a second on paper. NU7 went live four days ago, cutting block times from 75 seconds to 25. The upgrade receipts are real.

The tape says something else. ZEC printed $1,151.95, down 6% on $195 million volume, its third straight day of lower highs since the $1,388 top. ZEC ETFs bled about $13 million last week, reversing a $17 million inflow the week before.

Upgrades ship on a schedule; price answers to flows. CPI lands tonight at 20:30 WIB, and a hot print hits everything.

Levels: support $1,142, then $1,126 · resistance $1,232, then $1,250. A daily close under $1,142 breaks the November 2 base; above $1,250 the ceiling reopens.

Does $1,142 hold through CPI tonight, or does ZEC retest $1,126 first?

NFA, DYOR.

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Zcash isn’t done: a week after NU7 went live, the NU8 proposal has been submitted — 8MB blocks and a quantum-resistant private pool.

Facts: Zcash developer ValarDragon submitted the NU8 proposal on the official Zcash forum today, Nov. 10, 2026, targeting late January 2027 (PANews, KuCoin/BlockBeats, Odaily, Nov. 10). It includes a new shielded pool called Tachyon, increasing the maximum block size from 2MB to 8MB, quantum-resistant SPHINCS+-based transparent opcodes, moving the NSM reallocation date to around the seventh halving, and closing Sapling deposits. According to ValarDragon, Tachyon plus larger blocks could bring shielded transactions to around 200 per second.

Status: PROPOSAL — it is still in the public technical review stage on the forum, not a final decision. Implementation depends on further discussion and voting.

My take: NU7 just went live on Nov. 6 (block times went from 75 seconds to 25 seconds), and NU8 continues in the same direction: faster privacy plus quantum defenses. What really caught my attention is the debate within the proposal — core engineer str4d objected because the light-wallet specifications are not yet settled and 8MB blocks burden light clients. So the path isn’t smooth, and those objections will determine whether the January 2027 target is realistic. ZEC itself is around $1,145, down about 4% in 24 hours (CoinGecko, Nov. 10) — the market hasn’t celebrated this proposal yet.

What I’m watching next: the outcome of the forum review, the core team’s position on str4d’s objections, and whether the January 2027 target holds.

Do you think this faster, quantum-resistant privacy is enough to keep Zcash relevant, or would 8MB blocks put too much of a burden on light wallets?

This is my analysis, not financial advice — always DYOR.

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