Every story the desk has published on protocol upgrades, newest first. This page updates with each new development.
Core DAO announced an emergency hard fork following a protocol bug that allowed validators to draw more rewards than intended.
Approximately 176,000 ZEC, worth roughly $81 million, migrated into Zcash's new Ironwood shielded pool within the first day of the upgrade on Wednesday.
Zcash activated its Ironwood upgrade at block 3,428,143 on Tuesday, retiring the Orchard shielded pool containing 3.66 million ZEC (roughly $1.7 billion) after researchers discovered a counterfeiting bug that had gone undetected since the pool's May 2022 launch.