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Amara Okonkwo
Cohort 01
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Building privacy tools for African fintech using the Zcash protocol. Passionate about financial sovereignty and ZK proofs.
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15 of 54 lessons done
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ZEC Price
$424.51
+2.40% 24h
Market Cap
$7.11B
Rank #15
24h Volume
$363M
Active liquidity
Circulating Supply
16.64M
of 21M max
Block Reward
1.5625
ZEC · post-halving
Block Time
75s
Equihash PoW
Shielded Pool Supply
All Pools Orchard Sapling Sprout
🔮 Orchard
4.98M ZEC
~30% of supply · Halo2 · No trusted setup
✨ Sapling
1.41M ZEC
~8.5% of supply · Groth16 · Active
🌱 Sprout
25,591 ZEC
~0.15% of supply · Deprecated
Total Shielded
6.42M ZEC
% of Supply Shielded
~38.5%
Supply Distribution
■ Orchard 30% ■ Sapling 8.5% ■ Transparent 61.5%
Shielded Adoption — % of Supply (2024 – Jun 2026)
40% 30% 20% 10%
Jan '24
8% Oct '25
18% Nov '25
23% May '26
30% Now
38.5%
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Consensus
Proof of Work · Equihash
Memory-hard · ASIC-resistant design
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Block Reward Split (NU6)
80% Miners · 8% ZCG · 12% Lockbox
Post-November 2025 halving restructure
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Current Proving System
Halo2 (Orchard) · No trusted setup
Groth16 (Sapling) — legacy
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Latest Network Upgrade
NU6 · November 2025
Ironwood upgrade — July 2026 planned
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Bitcoin vs Zcash
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Lab 01 — Explore the Zcash Testnet
Stage 01 · Complete Stage 00 first · ~2 hours
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Stage 00 · Blockchain Fundamentals
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zodl.com
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Zcash Foundation
zfnd.org
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forum.zcashcommunity.com
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