Bankless co-founder: NEAR is a generalized version of Zcash, providing privacy protection for commercial activities.

The Zcash development team plans to launch the NU7 mainnet upgrade on November 5, with relevant organizations and engineering teams having aligned on the upgrade details and estimated timeline. Developer Sean Bowe said NU7 will activate on the testnet on October 6, and the team will finalize the mainnet upgrade and its activation block height on October 20 after evaluating testnet performance. NU7 will reduce Zcash’s target block time from 75 seconds to 25 seconds, disable V4 transactions, and integrate the Network Sustainability Mechanism (NSM). The selected NSM configuration will retain ZEC’s existing halving schedule, with supply previously removed from circulation set to re-enter starting February 2031. Bowe noted that NU7 will not introduce new transaction formats, so its impact on wallets is expected to be limited, though full nodes, indexers, and block explorers may require adjustments. In prior voting, 99.9% of ZEC’s weighted votes backed the block time reduction, while 98.9% supported retaining the halving mechanism.

According to GMGN market data, the meme coin BONER, a crypto-stock token on the Robinhood chain, briefly surpassed a market cap of $60 million and is now trading at $58.85 million, with a more than 40% increase in the past 24 hours. BONER was issued on the Long.xyz platform, pairing with tokenized U.S. stock HIMS via the Robinhood stock trading platform. BlockBeats reminds users that related tokens experience high price volatility, so investors should exercise caution.

Binance founder CZ retweeted a BNC-related post, as CEA Industries' bStock (BNCB) rallied above $6, surging over 21% in 24 hours. The tweet CZ shared was a name-change poll from BNB Network Company (BNC), a Nasdaq-listed BNB treasury firm, with CZ commenting, "What's in a name?"

Crypto trader Ansem stated in a post that he has been bullish on ZEC since its price was around $300, with the privacy token now rising to roughly $1,500. He believes ZEC’s current stage mirrors Bitcoin’s position ahead of its 2017 surge from $1,000 to $20,000, and expects Zcash’s market performance to remain strong this year and next.

Bankless co-founder David Hoffman announced on May 21 that he had liquidated his entire Ethereum (ETH) holdings, subsequently purchasing VVV, NEAR, ZEC, HYPE, and LIT, while disclosing partial entry prices: "NEAR at approximately $1.40, HYPE at around $45, ZEC at roughly $560, and LIT at about $1.35." Per HTX market data, the current prices of these assets and their performance based on the disclosed entry prices are as follows: LIT trades at $5.02, a roughly 272% increase from entry; ZEC is at $1512.42, up ~170%; NEAR stands at $3.49, up ~149%; HYPE is at $86.51, up ~92%. Hoffman did not reveal VVV’s specific entry price. Using its May 21 price of $15.99 as an estimate, VVV now trades at $25.27, marking a ~58% gain. Over the same period, ETH rose from around $2127.47 to $2473.23, a ~16% increase. All five altcoins in Hoffman’s prior allocation significantly outperformed ETH during the period.

Unipcs(@theunipcs)' portfolio is up another $2.5M in the past 24 hours, bringing his total assets to over $19M. He's back at #1 on FOMO's 24-hour leaderboard and has remained #1 on the all-time leaderboard for a month.