Zcash price in focus after NU7 upgrade goes live
Published on 11/10/2026 at 13:04 | Editorial responsibility: Rafael Müller, Editor-in-Chief AD HOC NEWSNU7 reshapes Zcash network economics
- NU7 activated at block 3,543,405 on November 6, according to CoinDesk Research.
- The upgrade reduced the target block interval from 75 seconds to 25 seconds.
- Sixty percent of transaction fees now go to a public reserve for future mining rewards.
- Investing.com displayed ZEC at 1,153.84 USD at 08:04 Berlin time on November 10.
Zcash's NU7 upgrade is now live on mainnet, putting faster confirmations and a new fee reserve into operation. The Zcash price was displayed at 1,153.84 USD in an Investing.com reading at 08:04 Berlin time on November 10. The same page showed a market capitalization of 19.46 billion USD and 24-hour volume of 1.07 billion USD.
NU7 activated at block 3,543,405 at 02:34 UTC on November 6. CoinDesk Research reported that the chain continued without a split after activation.
Faster blocks, unchanged supply cap
The upgrade cuts Zcash's target block interval from 75 seconds to 25 seconds. Block subsidies are reduced proportionally, so the rate of new ZEC issuance remains essentially unchanged. The 21 million ZEC supply cap and the existing halving schedule are preserved, according to The Block.
Fee reserve changes miner economics
NU7 also introduced the Network Sustainability Mechanism. Sixty percent of each block's transaction fees are removed from circulation and stored in a public reserve, while miners receive the remaining 40%. The reserved fees are scheduled for gradual reissuance through mining rewards beginning at block 8,939,664, which is expected in 2031. The mechanism is intended to support network security as block rewards decline.
Legacy Sprout funds remain inaccessible
The upgrade invalidated version 4 transactions, the format required to spend funds in Zcash's original Sprout shielded pool. CoinDesk Research said that 12,224 ZEC, valued at about 15 million USD at the time of its report, remained in Sprout at activation and could no longer be spent under the new rules. The coins were not burned, but a recovery mechanism has not been approved.
For investors and users, the Zcash price now reflects a network operating under its new consensus rules rather than a pending upgrade. The immediate focus is whether the faster block target is sustained in practice and how the fee reserve develops over time. The project's official website describes Zcash as a privacy-focused digital currency using zero-knowledge encryption for private peer-to-peer payments.
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