Zcash Is Cutting Block Time By Two-Thirds Without Tripling Issuance $ZEC developers are targeting November 5 for NU7, an upgrade that would cut Zcash’s block time from 75 seconds to 25 seconds. That means confirmations could arrive roughly three times faster. The interesting part is how they’re doing it without changing the long-term issuance schedule. If blocks arrive three times as often, simply keeping the same reward per block would dramatically increase new supply. Instead, NU7 reduces the reward per block by roughly the same factor and extends the halving interval from 1.68M blocks to 5.04M blocks. More blocks, same basic issuance path. There’s also a second piece that matters for miners. Roughly 60% of transaction fees would start being set aside under Zcash’s new sustainability mechanism, with those funds scheduled to flow back into mining rewards from February 2031 as regular issuance keeps declining. The community vote was unusually decisive too: 98.9% backed preserving the existing halving structure, while 99.9% of ZEC-weighted votes supported the faster block proposal. So NU7 is doing two things at once: making private payments feel much faster now, while already adjusting how network security gets paid for years later. #Macro Insights# #Altcoin Season#