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Kraken

2026-10-25 07:08:09

Kraken co-CEO says Monero user questionnaire was wrong and has been withdrawn

Kraken co-CEO Arjun Sethi said the exchange has withdrawn a questionnaire sent to some Monero (XMR) users after acknowledging the request should not have been made. In a post on X at 10:15 a.m. Taiwan time on Oct. 24, Sethi wrote that the message was sent by Kraken and that it was wrong. He said users who received the notice no longer need to provide additional information, and a question asking what they planned to do with withdrawn coins has been removed. Sethi said the emails were sent to users who bought XMR with their own funds and then withdrew the tokens. The questionnaire asked for their employer, source of funds, and intended use of the coins. He wrote that no rule required Kraken to ask that last question and said the issue began when someone treated a young user holding a large amount of money as a warning sign. 「That’s not a red flag, that’s our client.」 He also said XMR will remain listed on Kraken. CoinGecko data cited in the report showed XMR at $602.6 as of 3 p.m. Taiwan time on Oct. 25, up 2.7% over the previous 24 hours. The report also noted Kraken had previously delisted XMR in some regions because of regulatory requirements.

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Pirate Chain

2026-10-22 06:39:59

Pirate Chain pushes mandatory v6.14 update after counterfeit ARRR minting attack

Privacy coin project Pirate Chain has released a mandatory v6.14 update and told all nodes, mining pools, and exchanges to stop using older versions and upgrade immediately. According to ChainCatcher, the move follows an attack that exploited two validation bugs to mint about 39.82 million counterfeit ARRR in the transparent coinbase pool, temporarily lifting supply by roughly 20%. The project said both bugs have now been fixed. After reaching consensus with the community, mining pools, exchanges, and dPoW notarization nodes, Pirate Chain rolled the blockchain back to pre-attack block 4,176,944. The fake tokens have been fully removed, balances have been restored to their pre-attack state, and the maximum supply remains 200 million ARRR. On first launch, the new version will automatically reindex the entire chain. A full technical post-mortem report will be released later.

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Zcash

2026-10-21 08:13:03

Zcash sets NU7 upgrade for around Nov. 5, cutting block time to 25 seconds

Zcash developers have confirmed that the network’s NU7 upgrade will activate at block height 3,543,405, which is expected to arrive around Nov. 5 Beijing time. The upgrade will reduce block time from 75 seconds to 25 seconds, lifting transaction confirmation speed by about three times. In a practical example cited in the report, if an exchange waits for three block confirmations before crediting a user’s ZEC deposit, the delay would fall from nearly four minutes to about 1 minute and 15 seconds. The upgrade has already been running on the Zcash testnet since early October. The update was reported by CoinDesk and carried by Techub as a brief.

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Zcash

2026-10-21 08:24:02

Zcash developers propose NU7 mainnet activation around Nov. 5 as upgrade targets faster payments

Zcash developers have agreed on a proposed activation height for the NU7 network upgrade, setting it at block 3,543,405, which is expected to arrive around Nov. 5. The proposal was filed Tuesday by Zcash developer Sean Bowe after ZIP editors, the group that approves changes to the blockchain’s rules, settled on the exact block for activation. Zakura’s public upgrade dashboard now shows that height as the planned mainnet trigger point. If activated as proposed, NU7 would reduce Zcash block times from 75 seconds to 25 seconds. That change would cut the wait for three confirmations on a ZEC deposit from nearly four minutes to about 75 seconds, a notable shift for exchanges and payment flows that rely on confirmation thresholds. The upgrade has been running on Zcash’s testnet since early October. NU7 also changes fee handling and legacy privacy support. It would remove 60% of fees collected in each block from circulation temporarily, with those coins scheduled to be paid back to miners starting around February 2031, while keeping Zcash’s existing 50% mining reward halving schedule intact. At the same time, the upgrade would fully shut down Sprout, Zcash’s original privacy system. Any funds still held there when NU7 activates would become unspendable. As of 08:00 UTC Wednesday, the proposal had two approvals but had not yet been merged into the deployment specification, and node software still needs to include the chosen height before the upgrade can take effect.

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Zcash

2026-10-08 03:16:08

Zcash mobile wallet Zodl launches Zodl Vault waitlist

Zodl, a mobile wallet built for Zcash, said it has launched Zodl Vault and opened a waitlist for users. According to the project’s official statement, the product is designed to provide long-term protection for shielded ZEC. The team also said the beta version will be released in batches, with 100 users admitted each time. The announcement was shared through Zodl’s official channel and was cited by Foresight in a 7x24 news update. No additional rollout details, timing beyond the announcement, or broader product specifications were disclosed in the source material. The update centers on three points: the launch of Zodl Vault, the opening of the waitlist, and the beta access limit of 100 users per round.

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Zcash

2026-10-03 12:04:08

Zcash says it now has two independent full-node implementations

Zcash said the network now has two independent full-node implementations that follow the same rules: Zebra and Zakura. The project said this raises a core question for the network: whether the presence of a second client materially changes Zcash’s level of decentralization, or whether hashpower remains the only factor that really matters. According to the announcement, Zebra is a Rust-based full-node implementation backed by the Zcash Foundation, while Zakura is another independent full-node client. The update focuses on client diversity and how much it may affect the network’s decentralization in practice.

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Zcash

2026-10-01 21:31:03

Zcash Falls 21% From Its Late-September Peak as ETF Flows, Hack Fallout, and Chart Signals Draw Focus

Zcash extended its pullback on Thursday, with ZEC trading at $1,333.50, down 7.29% on the day and roughly 21% below its late-September high of $1,698.00. The retreat follows a sharp run that had lifted the privacy coin about 253% from $480.72 to that peak. The broader market offered little support: Bitcoin briefly climbed to $85,600 after softer-than-expected PCE inflation data before giving back the move, while the 10-year Treasury yield closed at 5.29% and CME FedWatch showed the odds of an October Fed rate hike falling from 70% to below 50%. Attention has also turned to fund flows and security-related headlines. Grayscale’s Zcash ETF, ZCSH, launched on Aug. 25 and had taken in $233 million in net inflows by mid-September, but it posted a $30.25 million net outflow on Wednesday. Separately, blockchain investigator ZachXBT said 2,746 ZEC, worth about $3.9 million, moved from addresses tied to the Bitget hack into Zcash’s shielded pool. On the chart, RSI sits at 50.2, ADX at 52.0, and the 50-day EMA remains above the 200-day EMA. The article’s read is that the move still looks like a correction rather than a full breakdown, with $1,233.00 and $1,410.72 highlighted as key levels.

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Zcash

2026-09-08 05:51:25

Wang Chun: Zcash Rally Is Narrative-Driven, Not on Par with Solana or Hyperliquid

Wang Chun, co-founder of F2Pool, criticized Zcash's recent price rally as narrative-driven, arguing that its market cap approaching Solana and Hyperliquid does not imply parity. He pointed to unfair initial distribution: a 20% founder reward for the first four years, totaling 2.1 million ZEC (10% of supply), followed by a similar "development fund" fee. Privacy is optional, with most coins in transparent addresses. Governance conflicts have long plagued Zcash, leading to ECC's mass resignation in January 2026. A severe vulnerability in the Orchard pool, disclosed in May 2026, could have allowed undetectable inflation. The July 2026 Ironwood upgrade closed the old pool but was merely a cleanup, not a justification for Zcash's top-ten ambitions.

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