Looks like Zencash can’t have a day without hacks. The team is now sending emails to all Zen Help users that ZenHelp website, a dedicated support system was compromised by hacker. In the hack, admin credentials were hacked and hacker got control of tickets data.
Coinbase just announced on their plan with intention to add four new coins to their website. This includes Cardano (ADA), Basic Attention Token (BAT), Stellar Lumens (XLM), Zcash (ZEC) and 0x (ZRX). Also, for Zcash, only t-addresses will be supported which are not used for private transactions.
Sapling is next major upgrade for the Zcash coin which was supposed to be roll out before September has been postponed. This will not affect timeline of Zcash Overwinter update that will be activated on June 25th 2018 and so are other related activities like third party security audits.
Ethereum Private is an upcoming hard fork of Ethereum and Zcash blockchain and promises to combine everything that is great about Ethereum and Zcash. Ethereum Private hard fork date is 13th of June 2018. Each Ethereum holders gets ETHP coins in 1:1 ratio while Zcash holders get 0.5ETHP for each ZEC they hold (1:2). So, if you have 2 ethereum, you get 2 ETHP and if you’ve 2 Zcash, you get 1 ETHP.
ZenCash network was hit with 51 percent attack yesterday, on June 2nd 2018 at 0243H UTC. The ZenCash team did mitigation steps to increase the difficulty of future attack on its network and safeguarded its network. However, around 6600 ZEN and 13000 ZEN for double spends were done and attacker was able to reorganize more than 30 blocks. This means the attacker knew what he was doing.
Mobi wallet is a wallet for your smartphone to store various cryptocurrencies and today, it has announced that it will be adding support for Bitcoin Gold (BTG), Zcash (ZEC) and Dash (DSH). This is a great news for Bitcoin Gold and Zcash because none of them have either android or iOS applications and Mobi wallet app is available on both.
Zcash 1.1.1 is overwinter compatible version of Zcash node software that has initial support for upcoming Sapling consensus that is slated to be activated in September 2018. It will also activate Sapling testnet at the block 252500. The Overwinter network update will be happening on 25th of June 2018 when the block 347500 will be mined.
Coincheck, a Japanese cryptocurrency exchange has announced that it will be delisting all pairs of privacy coins being traded on the exchange. This includes Monero, Zcash and Dash. Coincheck was bought by Monex, a brokerage firm that got infamous for the NEM hack where more than 530 million dollars worth of NEM were stolen. Coincheck has announced that it will no longer be supporting the aforementioned privacy cryptocurrencies.
Bitmate Author Donations is a plugin for WordPress websites and its developer has added support for Zcash cryptocurrency in latest v2 version of the software. Zcash is one of the most popular privacy oriented cryptocurrencies and that lets you send or receive money without revealing anything. One really amazing thing about this plugin is fact it can run without Javascript on the front end and even on self hosted QR code generation. This means there is no reliance on the front-end services. Bitmate Author Donations also has support for other cryptocurrencies.
ZenCash team has officially released v1 of the Arizen wallet. This is a light wallet that makes use of the remote node which means you can start using it right away – no need to download entire blockchain. Compatible with Windows, Linux and Mac operating systems, this wallet allows you to create and manage multiple ZEN address. Anything and everything stored by the ZenCash Arizen wallet is encrypted and stored only on your local storage.