New Zakura Release: 1.8.0 This release improves security by removing even more unnecessary code dependencies. Performance around block propagation, processing and mining flows has been enhanced as well. Read on to find out how we benchmarked:

David Hoffman just admitted it: Ethereum copied Zcash. On the new Bankless episode, @zkDragon said: "Every time Zcash made a technical decision, Ethereum copied it. Ethereum should have done BLS12-377." Hoffman clipped it. Posted it. On his own feed. @AshCrypto asked 106K readers today: "Which altcoin pumps in November?" The answer is on Bankless. $ZEC $21.4B. ETH holders learning in real time that their tribe follows. Six months ago they said Zcash was dead. Today Bankless gives it an episode. Six months from now you'll wish you kept this one. tier-1 thesis → $ZEC → in while ETH is processing the admission → out if NU7 ships broken or ECC walks → hold until Bankless gives ETH its episode Hoffman didn't need to say it. He said it anyway. The ones who speak against their tribe aren't guessing.

NEW EPISODE - The Complete Zcash Roadmap @Zcash co-founder @ebfull and Zcash protocol contributor @zkDragon break down what's next for $ZEC: scaling with Tachyon, preparing for quantum threats, and the future of private money. The complete Zcash deep dive for everyone curious about where the project is headed. CHAPTERS --- 0:00 Why Zcash Matters Now 07:53 AI Makes Privacy Urgent 11:20 The Zcash Development Roadmap 17:33 Privacy Without Compromises 25:26 Scaling Zcash With Tachyon 39:42 Private Wallets and Proof of Work 41:06 Zcash's Quantum Defense Roadmap 1:00:53 AI Threats and Formal Verification 1:12:53 Security Through Multiple Assumptions 1:19:37 Why Payments Come First 1:25:54 Funding Proof-of-Work Security 1:29:34 Governance and Coinholder Voting 1:34:53 ZEC Price and Protocol Threats

zcash:native Interesting money math on Zcash mining pools. We built @SluiceyPool to be different from the rest. The Zcash you mine goes direct to your @vizorwallet or @zodl_app or wherever else you prefer. And we built it to serve your fleet at the lowest possible cost because a pool fee should not be a major operational expense. 0.25% for those that join us today. That's not an introductory rate, that is the rate. For every 1 G/Sol of hashrate you have producing today here are some numbers to consider if your current pool charges you as follows: 2% fee - Sluicey net savings $385k 1.5% fee - Sluicey net savings $275k 1% fee -Sluicey net savings $165k Those numbers are based on network hashrate of 30 G/Sols and a price of $1,250.00. The higher the number goes for ZEC the more you save. Come try it out...I think your gonna like what you see. @trading_chi @speednotcomfort @Zcash @ZcashFoundation @truebittoken

"The point of a debate isn't to win. It's to find the best path forward." I heard that on a Zcon panel this past week. It's more true now than ever. I still have concerns with this proposal, mainly how the Future Dev and Legal Defense Fund lockbox is ultimately controlled and disbursed. But in the interest of moving forward and bringing private money to billions, I see this as a reasonable compromise. Onward 🛡️

This month was security szn, especially prescient with the wave of attacks! - protecting against the biggest wallet privacy leaks - protecting the software supply chain - cutting unneeded dependencies and surface area - live mainnet nodes across compilers and architectures - first of its kind p2p fuzzing and property testing

The new MPTCP bug is quite serious. It does not affect @ZakuraZcash , but it may affect your machine that runs it due to other services. (E.g. golang code auto-enables it) Out of abundance of caution, I highly recommend all node operators ensure MPTCP is off on their machine

New challenge on Yukon: Circuit Breaker It took 38 years to raise the best proven circuit lower bound from 3n to 3.1n. Days before this launch, an AI model pushed it to 3.5n. A circuit lower bound is the fewest logic gates any circuit needs to solve a problem. Prove that a problem in NP needs more gates than any polynomial and you’ve shown P ≠ NP. That would settle whether every problem that’s easy to check is also easy to solve, one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems. We’re still far from that bound. Circuit Breaker, built with UCLA Math+AI, is where the push continues. “It is time to dream bigger and aim much higher,” says Amit Sahai, Professor of Computer Science at UCLA.