Price
Current Supply (ZEC)
Issuance
* Statistics and values compiled from Messari.
** Current ZEC Supply and Issuance are calculated using Messari's Outstanding Supply parameter.
** Current ZEC Supply and Issuance are calculated using Messari's Outstanding Supply parameter.
Birthdate: October 28, 2016
Latest release: NU5
Transaction Size: unshielded, 500 bytes; shielded, 10,000 bytes
Protocol Fork: Fork of Bitcoin code base
Algorithm: Equihash
Mining: Proof of work
Block size: 2MB
Block time: 1.25 min
Current ZEC mined per block: 3.125
Active Nodes: See https://blockchair.com/zcash/nodes for details
Default fee: 0.0001 ZEC

Release Date:
May 31, 2022
Activation Block Height: 1,687,104
- Halo Proving System
- Unified Addresses
- Shielded by Default Transactions
Release Date:
July 16, 2020
10:56 UTC+00:00
Activation Block Height: 903000
- Flyclient
- Shielded Coinbase
Release Date:
December 11, 2019
21:51 UTC+00:00
Activation Block Height: 653600
- Shorter Blocktimes
Release Date:
October 29, 2018
02:15 UTC+00:00
Activation Block Height: 419200
- Performance for shielded addresses
- Decoupled spend authority
- Improved keys