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Morning Edition · Tuesday, October 27, 2026Published at 1:37 AM EDT · New York
Grayscale credits Zcash's 20% developer fund for a decade of privacy upgrades as Miden ships a private-finance wallet stack
Grayscale, which sells Zcash exposure, points to formal verification and quantum-recovery features in the Ironwood work. Miden is pitching institutions on client-side proving and a private USDC wrapper.
Zcash is turning ten. In a review marking the anniversary, Grayscale argues that the network's 20% developer fund, a portion of block rewards set aside for development, paid for a decade of privacy upgrades. Grayscale cites the Ironwood wor…
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