Zcash Community Improve NU6.1 Activated
The Zcash community efficiently activated NU6.1 in November 2025, following the discharge of zcashd v6.10.0. This improve was endorsed by each the Electrical Coin Firm and the Zcash Basis and launched a brand new long-term funding mannequin that separates the roles of the Group and ZEC coinholders.
The brand new funding construction allocates:
- 8% of all block rewards to Zcash Group Grants (ZCG), supporting community-driven initiatives.
- 12% of block rewards to a brand new Coinholder-Managed Fund. This fund is ruled instantly by ZEC coinholders and could also be used to distribute grants to ecosystem contributors or stay untouched for future choices.
This mannequin will stay lively till the third Zcash halving, permitting the neighborhood to judge whether or not it must be prolonged or revised.
NU6.1 additionally included a number of protocol updates and ZIP adjustments:
New ZIPs
- ZIP 255: Deployment of the NU6.1 Community Improve
- ZIP 271: Dev Fund Extension and One-Time Disbursement
- ZIP 1016: Group and Coinholder Funding Mannequin
Up to date ZIPs
- ZIP 214: Consensus guidelines for a Zcash Improvement Fund
Alongside funding adjustments, NU6.1 additionally improved RPC steadiness reporting for shielded transactions and launched transaction model v5 as the brand new default format.
CKB Shopper Replace: Model 0.203.0 Launched
The Nervos CKB staff launched CKB 0.203.0 (commit 88d1126, dated 2025-10-22), bringing a collection of recent options, bug fixes, and efficiency enhancements. This replace enhanced community stability and optimized a number of inner parts utilized by full nodes and lightweight shoppers.
Key Options
- #4891: Added gap punching protocol metrics
- #4888: Launched two outbound block-relay-only connections for improved community propagation
- #4910: Carried out from/into conversions for gen-type
- #4920: Enhanced scriptHashType serialization logic
Bug Fixes
- #4895: Corrected error dealing with in add_node and remove_node calls inside NetRpcImpl
Enhancements
- #4970: Disabled default options for strum dependency
- #4946: Improved rich-indexer stability by guaranteeing RocksDB SecondaryDB stays synchronized earlier than learn operations
- #4972: Restricted the scale of the filters area in BlockFilters messages to 1.8 MB to stop node disconnects attributable to outsized frames
These adjustments enhance total community reliability and cut back the probability of full nodes disconnecting mild shoppers as a consequence of outsized filter messages.
Kaspa (KAS) Block Reward Discount
As outlined by the Kaspa Tokenomics, the Crescendo Arduous Fork, and the official Emission Schedule, Kaspa underwent one other scheduled block reward discount in November.
- Earlier Reward: 4.12 KAS
- New Reward: 3.89 KAS
Please listen! Mining profitability for Kaspa has modified. Now we have already up to date 2CryptoCalc to replicate the brand new reward values.
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