Zcash ETF draws 1.61 million USD: What it means for the Zcash price

Published on 10/21/2026 at 07:36 | Editorial responsibility: Rafael Müller, Editor-in-Chief AD HOC NEWS

NU7 targets November 5 for mainnet activation. Zcash price is 1,133.12 USD on October 21, 2026, down 3.98 percent versus October 20 close.

Flows and network changes

On October 20, ZEC spot ETFs recorded 1.61 million USD in net inflows.
NU7 is designed to change block intervals from 75 seconds to 25 seconds.
The Zcash price stands at 1,133.12 USD as of October 21, 2026, 3.98 percent below the UTC daily close of October 20, 2026.
The planned NU7 mainnet activation date is November 5, 2026.

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Zcash (ZEC) spot exchange-traded funds, which hold the cryptocurrency directly, recorded 1.61 million USD in net inflows on October 20, 2026. The Zcash price stands at 1,133.12 USD as of October 21, 2026, down 3.98 percent compared with the UTC daily close of October 20, 2026.

ZEC funds record 1.61 million USD inflow

TokenPost reported that ZEC spot ETFs attracted 1.61 million USD on October 20, 2026. The report identified ZEC as the only altcoin spot ETF market in its dataset to attract fresh capital that day. The Grayscale Zcash ETF recorded cumulative net inflows of 153.86 million USD and held net assets of 649.65 million USD in the same report.

The flow figure belongs to an exchange-traded product rather than to ZEC itself. It therefore describes demand for a regulated market vehicle, while the cryptocurrency continues to trade on a continuous global market.

NU7 targets 25-second blocks for November 5

Zcash's Network Upgrade 7, or NU7, is a protocol change that every full node must adopt. The upgrade is designed to reduce the target interval between blocks from 75 seconds to 25 seconds, according to BSCN. The same roadmap names November 5, 2026, as the targeted mainnet activation date and October 20, 2026, as the date for confirming the final activation height.

NU7 also includes a mechanism that directs 60 percent of transaction fees to a reserve for future block rewards, while miners receive the remaining 40 percent, as TokenPost reported on October 20, 2026. The proposal would make version 4 transactions invalid, so funds remaining in Zcash's older Sprout shielded pool would need to be moved before mainnet activation.

October 19 outflow adds a counterpoint

A separate daily reading shows a different direction for fund flows. The Zcash ETF recorded a 10.45 million USD net outflow on October 19, 2026, according to ZecZcash, which identifies SoSoValue as the underlying data provider. The tracker also reports 152.25 million USD in cumulative net inflows and 601.7 million USD in net assets as of October 19, 2026.

The two daily readings describe separate settlement dates. They show that ZEC-linked fund flows changed direction within the October 19 and October 20, 2026, data points, without establishing a cause for the cryptocurrency's price movement.

Zcash trades at 1,133.12 USD

The Zcash price is 1,133.12 USD as of October 21, 2026, according to Investing.com. It is down 3.98 percent compared with the UTC daily close of October 20, 2026. The daily high is 1,156.00 USD and the daily low for the UTC day is 1,120.48 USD. Market capitalization is 19.26 billion USD, ranking Zcash 10th, while 24-hour volume is 781.38 million USD. Circulating supply is 16.92 million ZEC.