Zcash Community Improve NU6.1 Activated
The Zcash community efficiently activated NU6.1 in November 2025, following the discharge of zcashd v6.10.0. This improve was endorsed by each the Electrical Coin Firm and the Zcash Basis and launched a brand new long-term funding mannequin that separates the roles of the Neighborhood and ZEC coinholders.
The brand new funding construction allocates:
- 8% of all block rewards to Zcash Neighborhood Grants (ZCG), supporting community-driven initiatives.
- 12% of block rewards to a brand new Coinholder-Managed Fund. This fund is ruled instantly by ZEC coinholders and could also be used to distribute grants to ecosystem contributors or stay untouched for future selections.
This mannequin will stay energetic till the third Zcash halving, permitting the neighborhood to guage whether or not it needs to be prolonged or revised.
NU6.1 additionally included a number of protocol updates and ZIP modifications:
New ZIPs
- ZIP 255: Deployment of the NU6.1 Community Improve
- ZIP 271: Dev Fund Extension and One-Time Disbursement
- ZIP 1016: Neighborhood and Coinholder Funding Mannequin
Up to date ZIPs
- ZIP 214: Consensus guidelines for a Zcash Improvement Fund
Alongside funding modifications, NU6.1 additionally improved RPC steadiness reporting for shielded transactions and launched transaction model v5 as the brand new default format.
CKB Shopper Replace: Model 0.203.0 Launched
The Nervos CKB workforce launched CKB 0.203.0 (commit 88d1126, dated 2025-10-22), bringing a sequence of latest options, bug fixes, and efficiency enhancements. This replace enhanced community stability and optimized a number of inner elements utilized by full nodes and lightweight shoppers.
Key Options
- #4891: Added gap punching protocol metrics
- #4888: Launched two outbound block-relay-only connections for improved community propagation
- #4910: Carried out from/into conversions for gen-type
- #4920: Enhanced scriptHashType serialization logic
Bug Fixes
- #4895: Corrected error dealing with in add_node and remove_node calls inside NetRpcImpl
Enhancements
- #4970: Disabled default options for strum dependency
- #4946: Improved rich-indexer stability by guaranteeing RocksDB SecondaryDB stays synchronized earlier than learn operations
- #4972: Restricted the scale of the filters area in BlockFilters messages to 1.8 MB to stop node disconnects brought on by outsized frames
These modifications enhance general community reliability and scale back the chance of full nodes disconnecting mild shoppers as a result of outsized filter messages.
Kaspa (KAS) Block Reward Discount
As outlined by the Kaspa Tokenomics, the Crescendo Hard Fork, and the official Emission Schedule, Kaspa underwent one other scheduled block reward discount in November.
- Earlier Reward: 4.12 KAS
- New Reward: 3.89 KAS
Please listen! Mining profitability for Kaspa has modified. We’ve already up to date 2CryptoCalc to replicate the brand new reward values.
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