Zcash will activate the Ironwood hard fork on July 28, 2026, to close a critical bug in its Orchard shielded pool that could have allowed counterfeit coins. The upgrade stops new deposits to the old pool and enforces a checkpoint to verify coin legitimacy, ensuring supply integrity. Alongside, the new Zakura node syncs the network five times faster than the previous Zebra node, improving network speed and security. Users and node operators must upgrade before the fork to maintain compatibility and benefit from the fixes and performance improvements.
Zcash co-founder Zooko Wilcox announced that the July 28, 2026 Ironwood hard fork will freeze any potentially forged ZEC coins due to a past vulnerability in the Orchard pool. The fork will seal the old Orchard pool and launch a new one with correcte...
Zcash is developing new technology to increase its shielded transaction capacity from 3-20 TPS to up to 50,000 TPS, comparable to Visa's network. This effort involves Project Tachyon and the NU7 upgrade, which have already shown promising testnet res...
Polygon has launched AggLayer, a new system that enables separate blockchain chains to share liquidity and state directly without using traditional bridges. This architecture uses a unified proof mechanism to maintain each chain's sovereignty while a...
Bitcoin fell 1.2% below $63,000 and ether dropped 1.74% as a broad risk-off sentiment hit markets, driven by a selloff in semiconductor stocks and renewed tensions in the Middle East. This caused a rotation into safer assets like gold, which rose abo...
Cronos (CRO) surged 7.43% to $0.0597, leading gains among altcoins due to strategic partnerships and ecosystem growth. Other notable gainers included Beldex, Stable, Mantle, and Polkadot, each rising between 2% and 6%. Conversely, Lighter fell 10.43%...
