Electric Coin Co. released zcashd 5.6.0 today, a key piece to solving wallet performance issues and one of the last remaining hurdles to exiting emergency mode. The SDK and lightwalletd will be released next week.
Namada, a new blockchain that focuses on multichain privacy, has proposed an airdrop of its upcoming Namada staking token (NAM) to holders of Zcash (ZEC), the cryptocurrency native to privacy-focused blockchain Zcash.