Zcash price stands at 1,133.12 USD on October 16, 2026 as NU7 review nears

Published on 10/20/2026 at 13:16 | Editorial responsibility: Rafael Müller, Editor-in-Chief AD HOC NEWS

NU7 would cut block times from 75 to 25 seconds. The Zcash price is 1,133.12 USD on October 16, 2026, down 3.98 percent.

Privacy, mining and fund flows

Zcash ranked 10th by market capitalization on October 16, 2026.
A spot Zcash ETF recorded a 1.22 million USD outflow on October 16, 2026.
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.
Zcash network hashrate reached 27.8 GSol/s on October 13, 2026.

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Zcash (ZEC) 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. The cryptocurrency ranks 10th by market capitalization, while its network hashrate, the computing power securing transactions, reached 27.8 GSol/s on October 13, 2026.

NU7 targets 25-second blocks for November 5

Zcash's NU7 upgrade remains the main scheduled network change. The public testnet activated NU7 at block 4,465,026 on October 4, 2026, and the change reduces the target block interval from 75 seconds to 25 seconds. As 24/7 Wall St reported, developers planned to review the test results on October 20, 2026, with November 5, 2026, as the target for mainnet activation.

The upgrade also reallocates 60 percent of transaction fees to a reserve for future mining rewards and discontinues the older Sprout privacy pool. The same report said that ZEC held in Sprout could become unspendable after activation unless it is moved beforehand.

ETF flows and mining activity diverge

Spot Zcash ETF flows turned negative in the latest settled data. The tracker ZecZcash, citing SoSoValue data, reported a 1.22 million USD net outflow on October 16, 2026, after a 14.76 million USD outflow on October 15, 2026. The fund's cumulative net inflow stood at 162.7 million USD on October 16, 2026.

Mining conditions show a different network signal. Hashrate Index recorded 27.8 GSol/s for the Zcash network on October 13, 2026, and said miners received 1,440 ZEC per day before transaction fees. A separate report described 2,746 ZEC transferred into a shielded pool on September 30, 2026, linking the transaction to funds stolen in the Bitget breach.

Zcash price data shows a 1,120.48 USD daily low

The Zcash price stands at 1,133.12 USD as of October 16, 2026, according to Investing.com. It is 3.98 percent below the UTC daily close of October 15, 2026, with a daily high of 1,156.00 USD and a daily low of 1,120.48 USD for the UTC day. Market capitalization is 19.26 billion USD, ranking Zcash 10th, while 24-hour volume is 781.38 million USD and circulating supply is 16.92 million ZEC.