What is often lost in the noise is that there are people working relentlessly to push Zcash forward.
Private, trusted, hard money.
On the "inside," I get to see it every day. But you can verify it all.
The Orchard soundness vulnerability was disclosed to our engineers at 11:53 PM on Friday, May 29.
It was fixed in 5 days, requiring both a soft fork and a hard fork. That speed was only possible because the process was already there. Disclosure procedures and coordination channels were already in place. We were prepared.
Then we built the new pool, independently audited, with 60 pull requests of machine-checked proofs. We retired zcashd after a decade and rebuilt the stack:
Zallet, the new wallet, went from alpha to beta. 146 PRs
Zebra was hardened. 296 PRs
Zakura was brought to life. 442 PRs
librustzcash and the mobile SDKs updated. 460 PRs
Indexers were rebuilt.
Zodl rebuilt on top. 238 PRs across iOS and Android
And not just code. Comms. Coordination. Miner and exchange outreach.
To date:
51 people wrote code
1,391 pull requests merged
60 days
No weekends
Wartime mode.
14 of those 51 are ZODL engineers. They authored half the merged changes and 82% of the changes in the protocol and wallet repos.
Every consensus node has moved to zebrad or Zakura. The wallets have not. Some run on a bridge Valar built to buy time. There is still work to be done.
Orchard was fixed in 5 days and replaced in 60.
Ironwood activates in less than 36 hours. Track the migration: ironwood.zodl.com
Many people are working not for personal glory or price charts, but because this work is so important.
Freedom isn't free; it must be built.
🚨 BREAKING
It has been confirmed by the folks over at Translucent, that a study in to complaints regarding transgender women using single-sex public facilities operated by all the unitary authorities in England amounts to:
0.0000059% of the population.
1 complaint.
Surveillance pricing is REAL and @JetBlue just admitted it.
Our web searches, mouse clicks and other forms of our personal data should not be used against us. We should not have to go incognito to avoid price gouging.
It’s time to ban #surveillancepricing in New York and across the country. Pass our One Fair Price package now!
#EuropeanUnion: UN experts call for immediate suspension of trade agreement with #Israel – a ‘minimum requirement’ under intl. law. “The EU can’t claim to uphold human rights while sustaining preferential trade with State whose conduct amounts to genocide”
ohchr.org/en/press-releases/…
Judge ordered unmonitored legal calls. Guards cut the phones. Then came the beatings, the pepper spray, the knee on a neck, the broken wrist, one man unconscious.
Court filings. Attorney photographs. An Amnesty International report titled "Torture." A district court closed it. Two Trump judges reopened it.
🚨 12 British universities have paid a security firm £440,000 to monitor students & academics’ social media inc those who have expressed solidarity for Palestine
The unis:
• UCL
• Imperial
• KCL
• Oxford
• Sheffield
• Leicester
• Nottingham
• LSE
• Manchester
• Cardiff
If you’re a woman, you don’t hate Palantir enough
In 2026, Karp stated that AI will systematically reduce the economic & political power of female voters
In 2009, Thiel wrote that the "extension of the [voting] franchise to women" was undesirable
The White House is completely silent as BBC confirms a consistent pattern of massive financial spikes occurring just minutes before Donald Trump makes market moving announcements. The administration is facing severe allegations of illegally profiteering off inside knowledge.
people need to go to jail for this because what do you mean Britain is intentionally concealing and smuggling weapon parts through a country that has banned arms exports to Israel and how is this not a major international incident
Armed masked man starts fight at high school ICE protest—turns out to be off duty police sergeant.
His plan was to trick students to "assault me"—then "arrest them all."
Then called his buddies with rifles to "back him up."
Sgt. Dusten Mullen makes $336,000 a year—making him a top 10 earner in the Phoenix Police Department.
He is currently on administrative leave—which means he's reassigned to work from home.
Incident occurred outside Hamilton High School in Chandler, Arizona.
Micro expressions are commonly understood - slight human revelations of what we’re internalizing.
Micro manipulations are not commonly understood - slight adjustments to our internal narratives and behaviors, as we are observed and presented with personalized responses in order to coerce.
Bit by bit.
A sovereign person cannot not live in a digital fishbowl.
Embrace the math that governs the universe. Embrace encryption. Embrace humanness. They are fiercely interconnected.
No man is your master. You were gifted math. It is your shield and sword. Use it.
The High Court ruled the ban unlawful.
Therefore, you are intentionally wrongly arresting hundreds of protestors for holding signs to protect a foreign genocidal regime.
🧵 Updates on the Defend our Juries activity will be shared on this thread.
Palestine Action remains a proscribed organisation and any expression of support for it constitutes a criminal offence.
news.met.police.uk/pressrele…
Absolutely shameful.
The Labour Government has no interest in tackling inequality, stopping poverty in this country or stopping a genocide that they're complicit in.
Every interest in trying to silence dissent. We will not be silent.
523 people were arrested today for showing support for a proscribed organisation.
The age of those arrested ranges from 18 to 87. That brings the updates today to a close, we are grateful to all the officers involved for their professionalism.
One of Orwell's nightmares materialised would be this: potential war criminals and arm manufacturers implicated in a genocide allowed to roam and operate freely, while citizens get arrested for opposing a genocide.
BREAKING: Mass arrests under the Terrorism Act in Trafalgar Square, as hundreds defy the ban on Palestine Action.
The police are knowingly unlawfully arresting peaceful protestors for holding placards which say:
"I oppose genocide - I support Palestine Action"
Hospital acquired Covid has a 10% fatality rate.
It’s almost completely preventable with respirators and clean air, but healthcare facilities have chosen a policy of forced infection instead.
Let this case set a precedent & start forcing hospitals to adopt airborne precautions!
France: First court case on cause of death from Covid-19 contracted in hospital.
Awarded €8,000 for damages suffered by the victim; €15,000 for the wife; €4,000 for funeral expenses; and €4,000 for each of the four children.
I really enjoyed presenting the @nym mixnet and thanks to the $ZEC community for all their support. Looking forward to seeing the Zashi* integration on my phone!
Free private money needs a free private internet!
Community leaders and builders from across the Zcash ecosystem just finished up an amazing week together - sharing, collaborating and planning.
Zcash in 2026 is going to be 🔥
More to come