There are less than 6 days left to get funds out the Sprout pool. Argos 1.6.1 downloads a cache from sprout transactions from Google Cloud or GitHub enabling syncing in under a day.

Zodl is ready for NU7 with v3.19.0. Zcash’s next network upgrade, NU7, is scheduled for November 5. To continue using Zodl after the upgrade, you’ll need the latest version of the app. Update Zodl on iOS or Android before November 5:

Excited to join Free Society Hack as a mentor partner! At Noir Wallet, we're committed to empowering the next generation of builders and advancing the future of confidential and privacy-focused innovation. Looking forward to supporting hackers in Mumbai on November 4–5! 🛡️

🥳 Ten years of Zcash is ten years of people. Protocol researchers. Wallet devs. Node operators. Grant reviewers. Educators. Moderators. The ones who answer the same forum question for the hundredth time. Thank you. Here's to the next decade. 🎂

🎂 Happy Birthday, Zcash! 🥳💚 Today, we celebrate another year of building a future where financial privacy is valued and protected. That's not all, I had the opportunity to meet with some Zcash community members, share conversations, and celebrate what brings us together. Nice meeting @CQ_Elzz @OmegaOnChain @thedrekal @FagbenroGbengaH, Gilmore, Kenzo and @theKroyX

Happy Birthday, Zcash! It’s been 10 years since “the most uneventful launch ever.” Big thanks to the scientists, Satoshi, the Zcash builders, and the holders who’ve made it possible. Watch the original livestream and see how far we’ve come:

In a few hours, live from Zcon7: the top 5 films from the @Zcash 10th Birthday Short Film Festival, counting down from #5# to #1#. Watch the archive come to life! 23:30 UTC / 6:30 PM Cancún #Zcash# #Zcon#

Today marks 10 years of Zcash! 🎂🎉 A decade of cryptographic breakthroughs, relentless innovation and unwavering dedication from our engineers and advocates championing financial privacy. Here's to the next decade of Freedom Money! 🛡️ $ZEC

10 years ago, we launched Zcash, making a private version of Bitcoin. But the origins go back to the 80s, when, in the wake of the Watergate scandal, cryptographers first dreamed of private electronic cash, and the story runs through Satoshi’s invention of Bitcoin. Zerocoin came three years before Zcash launched in 2016. We’d written it as a zk-mix for Bitcoin, and then a year later, Zerocash, which introduced SNARKs to cryptocurrency and is now the de facto approach to private payments on chain. More than 30 years before that, in the early 80s, cryptographers first dreamed of private electronic payments. This was right after the invention of public key cryptography, the Watergate scandal, the Church Committee’s revelations of intelligence agency wrongdoing, and an ongoing fight between the nascent academic crypto community and the government over regulations and alleged backdoors. It was also right as it became clear that the growth of the internet and electronic payments would pose a major surveillance risk. Today, there are a number of cryptographers who think crypto is simply math, devoid of purpose, and a number of folks in cryptocurrency who do not care about privacy (or perhaps even cryptography). That was not the case in the 1980s. Starting with David Chaum, cryptographers first designed e-cash, a centralized private payment scheme that required a trusted bank to blindly sign special tokens. These went nowhere: existing trusted institutions, like banks, didn’t adopt the protocols, and no one wanted to trust magic internet money run by a strange company. Then Satoshi invented Bitcoin, overcoming the trust issue by inventing a blockchain. Bitcoin’s key innovation was the blockchain, which replaced a trusted bank with a public database anyone could participate in running. Because anyone could participate, it got off the ground without convincing a bank to run it. But because anyone could participate, there was no privacy: everyone could download the database of payments. And we couldn’t just use an e-cash scheme, as that required someone to keep a secret signing key, and the entire point of Bitcoin was that no one had to be trusted. This is where Zerocoin, Zerocash, and Zcash come in. They replaced the e-cash system with a zero-knowledge proof and, this fact is not well understood by many, strengthened the privacy of e-cash schemes by giving the recipient full privacy even if the bank was malicious.

happy 10y to zcash we've rekindled the fire that represents the best of crypto against all odds the best cryptographers & missionaries working on sovereign, encrypted, quantum-safe money at planetary scale what crypto was always meant to be the fire only gets bigger from here

Happy 10th Birthday Zcashers. Specially to the unsung heroes that went through rough days of sandblasting and privacy winter and kept ZODLing. @Zcash is alive and kicking thanks to your courage and conviction. Cheers!

Zcash turns 10 today. A phone almost as old as the network can now generate a shielded proof in under half a second. There’s a decade of research and engineering behind that sentence. Respect to everyone who kept building. Happy birthday, @Zcash.