About 70% of ZEC remains in the transparent address pool, Zcash development team plans to introduce quantum-resistant signature mechanism in January 2027

Odaily News: The Zcash development team plans to incorporate quantum-resistant signature opcodes into the network in January 2027, supporting transaction verification through hash-based signatures to reduce the threat that breakthroughs in quantum computing technology pose to wallet key security. However, the official activation time has not yet been determined. Zakura engineer Roman Akhtariev stated that the mechanism will be primarily applied to Zcash's transparent transaction system. As of Thursday, approximately 11.96 million ZEC were held in the transparent address pool, accounting for about 70% of the 16.98 million ZEC in circulation. In addition, Zakura has launched a wallet balance query tool based on Private Information Retrieval (PIR), and an experimental version is already available through the "Private queries" setting in the Zcash wallet Vizor.