Zcash News Today: $5,000 Target, ETF Streak Ends as NU7 Nears

Zcash News Today: Node Deadline, ETF Streak Ends, $5,000 Call

Three separate threads collided this week, and together they sum up where things stand right now. 

Zcash News Today spans a hard deadline for anyone running node software, a spot ETF's inflow streak finally breaking, and a co-founder doubling down on an aggressive year-end price target. 

Each thread stands on its own, but read together, they paint a picture of a network drawing attention from several directions at once.

A Hard Deadline For Node Operators

The Zcash Foundation released Zebra 6.4.0 and 6.4.1, and buried inside the announcement sits a real deadline. 

Version 6.4.1 halts around November 2, just ahead of the NU7 network upgrade, tentatively scheduled for November 5.

Source: Zcash Foundation Official, BSCNews Post on X

• End-of-support halt: around November 2, 2026

• NU7 upgrade: tentatively November 5, 2026

• Standard fee cut from 5,000 to 1,000 zatoshis per action

• A follow-up release with full NU7 support lands next week

What Zebra 6.4.0 And 6.4.1 Actually Fix

The update isn't cosmetic, and it's one of the more technical threads inside this Zcash News Today roundup. 

Per the foundation's own advisory, a flaw let a malicious peer serve a block with forged authorization data, tricking a node into repeatedly stalling its sync instead of simply requesting the block again from someone else. 

That's now fixed, along with a related bug letting peers dodge IP bans by hopping across an IPv6 address range.

Node runners are strongly encouraged to upgrade straight to 6.4.1 rather than 6.4.0, since it also resolves a separate stall bug discovered right after the initial release.

The ETF's Eight-Day Streak Comes To An End

Away from node infrastructure, the newly launched spot Zcash ETF just broke a genuine run, another thread inside this week's Zcash News Today cycle. 

Independent flow tracking shows eight straight positive trading days between September 11 and September 22, before landing flat at zero on September 23.

Source: BSCNews on X

Even with the pause, the bigger picture stays strong. The fund has pulled in roughly $284 million during September alone and now holds close to $1 billion in net assets, or about one out of every 26 ZEC in circulation. 

Shares recently traded near $124.69, alongside daily trading volume above $65 million on the settled session, according to the same tracking source.

A Co-Founder's $5,000 Call

The third thread ties directly to sentiment. Zcash co-founder Eli Ben-Sasson reiterated his target of $5,000 ZEC by the end of 2026, a call he first made back on September 9.

Source: Gemini on X

That target follows an earlier prediction of his that already played out: ZEC clearing $1,200 by September 25. 

Getting from current levels to $5,000 would still require roughly another three-fold move from here, a steep climb even against a strong recent run. 

His stated reasoning centers on ZEC functioning as a kind of second Bitcoin for privacy-focused holders, alongside rising whale accumulation, he says, which has drawn questions from large market participants.

Three Stories, One Direction

Node security, ETF demand, and a bold public target rarely line up in the same week by accident. 

Whether that combination holds up as genuine momentum or cools once the ETF streak resumes one way or another, this stretch of Zcash News Today captures a network under real, active attention from builders, institutions, and its own founders simultaneously, a pattern worth watching alongside crypto news today more broadly.

Disclaimer

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