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

Odaily reports: The Zcash development team plans to include quantum-resistant signature opcodes in the network in January 2027, supporting transaction verification through hash-based signatures, in order 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 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). The experimental version is already available through the "Private queries" setting in the Zcash wallet Vizor.