Network Information

Price
Current Supply (ZEC)
Issuance
* Statistics and values compiled from Messari.
** 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:

November 18, 2020
12:34 UTC+00:00

  • New dev fund

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

Overwinter

Release Date:

June 26, 2018
01:37 UTC+00:00

Activation Block Height: 347500

Sprout

Release Date:

October 28, 2016
17:19 UTC+00:00