Zcash ETF outflow reaches 10.4 million USD: What it means for the Zcash price

Published on 10/21/2026 at 13:02 | Editorial responsibility: Rafael Müller, Editor-in-Chief AD HOC NEWS

NU7 targets 25-second blocks for November 5. The Zcash price is 1,133.12 USD on October 16, 2026, down 3.98 percent.

ETF flows and network data

Grayscale's Zcash ETF recorded a 10.4 million USD outflow on October 19, 2026.
NU7 targets 25-second blocks instead of 75 seconds, with activation planned for block 3,543,405.
The Zcash price stands at 1,133.12 USD as of October 16, 2026, 3.98 percent below the UTC daily close of October 15, 2026.
Developers target November 5, 2026, for the NU7 mainnet activation.

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Zcash (ZEC) recorded a 10.4 million USD outflow from Grayscale's spot exchange-traded fund on October 19, 2026. Blockchain.News reported the daily figure from Farside Investors data. The Zcash price stands at 1,133.12 USD as of October 16, 2026, down 3.98 percent compared with the UTC daily close of October 15, 2026.

ZCSH records a 10.4 million USD outflow

The October 19, 2026, withdrawal came from ZCSH, Grayscale's spot Zcash ETF, which holds ZEC directly. A spot ETF is a fund designed to track an asset by holding the asset itself. The daily outflow is a liquidity measure for the fund and does not by itself establish the reason for the ZEC price move. Farside Investors supplied the figure cited by Blockchain.News on October 19, 2026.

Daily ETF flows can differ from the coin's market capitalization because they measure creations and redemptions of fund shares rather than every ZEC transaction. On October 19, 2026, the reported 10.4 million USD outflow therefore describes ZCSH activity, not a direct withdrawal from the Zcash network.

NU7 targets 25-second blocks

Zcash developers agreed on block 3,543,405 as the planned activation point for Network Upgrade 7, or NU7, with the change expected around November 5, 2026. CoinDesk reported on October 21, 2026, that the proposed upgrade would reduce target block intervals from 75 seconds to 25 seconds. A block is a batch of transactions added to the chain, so the change alters the target timing for confirmations.

The same October 21, 2026, report said NU7 would temporarily remove 60 percent of block fees from circulation and disable Zcash's original Sprout privacy system. Funds remaining in Sprout when the upgrade activates would become unspendable, according to CoinDesk.

ZEC market data on October 16, 2026

The Zcash price is 1,133.12 USD as of October 16, 2026, according to Investing.com. That is 3.98 percent below the UTC daily close of October 15, 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 ZEC 10th, while 24-hour volume is 781.38 million USD. Circulating supply is 16.92 million ZEC, according to Investing.com.