Tagged: privacy

November 9, 2026 @ 2:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Zcash, the privacy-oriented blockchain, completed its Network Upgrade 7 (NU7) on mainnet at block height 3,543,405. The change, defined in the consensus deployment proposal known as ZIP 259, lowers the target interval between successive blocks from 75 seconds to 25 seconds while adjusting related parameters… Read More

October 20, 2026 @ 11:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

zerohash announced the launch of AUTH by zerohash, an onchain authentication and account-linking product. The tool is designed to improve the usability of moving digital assets—including cryptocurrencies, stablecoins, and tokenized securities—by allowing transfers between linked accounts without requiring users to copy alphanumeric wallet addresses or… Read More

October 16, 2026 @ 1:21 pm By JD Alois  |  

Digital asset firm StarkWare has launched a service that supports privacy for Polymarket trades Because public blockchains like Polygon let anyone view transactions, traders can trace trades back to individuals, though it takes effort. Zcash says it is eliminating this risk while providing a compliant service…. Read More

October 8, 2026 @ 12:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Zcash has moved Network Upgrade 7 onto public testnet, putting the privacy chain’s next consensus change under live conditions ahead of a November 2026 mainnet target. The Zcash Foundation shipped Zebra 7.0.0-rc.0, the first release candidate for NU7, on October 2, 2026. That build is… Read More

October 7, 2026 @ 12:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

On October 1, 2026, the Ethereum Foundation’s dAI team and the Open Anonymity Project placed zkAPI on Ethereum mainnet, a payment layer that lets people buy metered API access—especially AI inference—without tying the payer’s identity to the requests themselves. Today’s typical AI key points back… Read More

October 5, 2026 @ 4:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A privacy-focused cryptocurrency project has moved from informal education in the capital to a formal lobbying presence. Pretty Good Policy for Zcash, or PGPZ, registered under the Lobbying Disclosure Act with an effective date of October 1, 2026, naming executive director Divij Pandya as its… Read More

October 2, 2026 @ 1:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Ethereum Foundation and the Open Anonymity Project have brought a mainnet system online that lets people pay for metered APIs without tying those calls to a durable billing identity. Announced on October 1, 2026, by Vittorio Rivabella of the Foundation’s dAI team, the design—called… Read More

September 30, 2026 @ 4:54 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Cross-chain bridges remain one of crypto’s most expensive weak points. They move value from one network to another, but they typically have no cryptographic way to confirm that the destination address is controlled by the same person who made the deposit. A substituted payout address… Read More

September 29, 2026 @ 8:06 am By Omar Faridi  |  

China’s top intelligence agency has recently issued yet another pointed reminder that cryptocurrency does not place users beyond legal scrutiny. In a public warning released on September 28, 2026, the Ministry of State Security argued that digital assets have been adopted by offenders seeking to… Read More

September 28, 2026 @ 11:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

FlawZano, a privacy-focused layer-1 network that hides amounts and transaction details by default, said on September 25, 2026 that a supply-integrity defect in its new Gateway Addresses feature had left developers with little option but to unwind roughly 24 hours of chain history. The team… Read More

September 27, 2026 @ 3:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A New York cryptography research group has outlined a way to hide Bitcoin payment details on the base chain itself, without asking miners or node operators to adopt a protocol upgrade. The design, called Shielded Bitcoin, comes from [alloc] init researchers Clara Shikhelman, Mikhail Komarov,… Read More

September 23, 2026 @ 1:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Zcash developers have locked in a working timetable for Network Upgrade 7, aiming to cut confirmation waits so shielded transfers can move more quickly without changing the coin’s privacy model. On September 17, Zcash cofounder Sean Bowe posted that every major builder group had reached… Read More

September 17, 2026 @ 2:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Zcash (ZEC) led Thursday’s cryptocurrency rebound after US policymakers delivered their first rate increase since 2023, a move that markets largely treated as already expected rather than a shock. The privacy token advanced roughly 23 percent over 24 hours and traded near $1,369. Bitcoin rose… Read More

September 13, 2026 @ 8:13 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Andreessen Horowitz has become one of the most recent backers of Flock Safety, the Atlanta-based company whose license-plate readers, cameras, drones and audio sensors now operate across thousands of US based communities. The firm led Flock’s 2021 Series D round and returned to lead a… Read More

September 8, 2026 @ 3:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ethereum’s core protocol teams have begun shaping the next major network upgrade, Hegotá, while setting a firm long-range goal: a Layer 1 that can withstand quantum computers by the end of 2029. The Ethereum Foundation’s Protocol cluster published its first unified assessment of the work… Read More

September 6, 2026 @ 9:56 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Financial privacy is entering another period of public scrutiny. Grayscale Investments argues that artificial intelligence is accelerating that shift by making it easier to link public financial records to real people. In research published at the end of August 2026, Head of Research Zach Pandl… Read More

August 31, 2026 @ 4:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Confidential Zcash payments have long carried a noticeable pause before they even leave a wallet. That wait may soon shrink from more than three seconds to well under 200 milliseconds in many cases, after the team behind the Zakura full node released Zakura Common, an… Read More

August 18, 2026 @ 9:39 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ethereum’s development community is now actively defining the contents of its next major network upgrade, Hegotá, which is scheduled for delivery in 2027. According to Ethereum Foundation researcher Toni Wahrstätter, developers currently have 66 Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs) under consideration. Over the coming series of… Read More

August 13, 2026 @ 11:54 am By JD Alois  |  

The US Department of the Treasury, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), has reversed requirements that mandated individuals to report beneficial ownership in companies. The final rule will become effective after it is published in the Federal Register. The rule adopts what was proposed this past… Read More

July 29, 2026 @ 5:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Privacy-focused Zcash has activated its Ironwood network upgrade, introducing a new shielded pool in response to a soundness flaw previously identified in the Orchard protocol. The upgrade, formally designated NU6.3, went live on July 28, 2026, at block height 3,428,143. It establishes a fresh shielded… Read More