🔒 $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.

📅 Timeline:

Testnet activation: Oct 6

Final mainnet decision: Oct 20

Mainnet activation: Nov 5

⚙️ What's changing:

Block spacing cut from 75s → 25s (3x faster blocks)

Version 4 transactions disabled

New Network Sustainability Mechanism (NSM) to support miner revenue — while preserving the original halving schedule

🗳️ Community backed it hard: 98.9% voted to keep the halving schedule, and 99.9% supported the faster-block proposal.

📈 Momentum is building too — 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. 👀

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