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

Odaily News: The Zcash development team plans to incorporate quantum-resistant signature operation codes into the network in January 2027, supporting transaction verification through hash-based signatures to reduce the threat posed by breakthroughs in quantum computing technology to wallet key security. However, the official activation time has not yet been determined. Zakura engineer Roman Akhtariev stated that this mechanism will be primarily applied to the Zcash transparent transaction system. As of Thursday, approximately 11.96 million ZEC were held in transparent address pools, accounting for about 70% of the 16.98 million ZEC issued. In addition, Zakura 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.