๐Ÿ”’ $ZEC Update: NU7 Mainnet Upgrade Locked In for Nov 5

Zcash developers reached unanimous agreement on the roadmap for Network Upgrade 7 (NU7), targeting November 5, 2026 for mainnet activation.

๐Ÿ“… Timeline:

Testnet activation: Oct 6
Final mainnet decision: Oct 20
Mainnet activation: Nov 5

โš™๏ธ What's changing:

Block spacing cut from 75s โ†’ 25s (3x faster blocks)
Version 4 transactions disabled
New Network Sustainability Mechanism (NSM) to support miner revenue โ€” while preserving the original halving schedule

๐Ÿ—ณ๏ธ Community backed it hard: 98.9% voted to keep the halving schedule, and 99.9% supported the faster-block proposal.

๐Ÿ“ˆ Momentum is building too โ€” ZEC jumped ~20% in 24h as privacy coins outperformed the broader market, and Zcash spot ETFs pulled in $98.2M in net inflows for the week ending Sept 18, the largest among all 14 tracked crypto products.

Privacy coins are clearly having a moment. ๐Ÿ‘€

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