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Zcash locks NU6.3 Ironwood activation to block 3,428,143 on July 28
Core devs pin NU6.3 to mainnet block 3,428,143 (~Jul 28, 08:00 EST). Orchard becomes spend-only; new shielded value flows through a turnstile into the Ironwood pool.
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Zcash patches Orchard soundness bug with NU6.2 emergency hard fork
An under-constrained Orchard circuit could have minted undetectable counterfeit ZEC. Zcash froze the pool with a June 2 soft fork, then re-enabled it via NU6.2 the next day.
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Zcash Zebra 4.5.0 patches P2SH sigop bug that risked chain split
Zcash Foundation ships Zebra 4.5.0 plus a 4.5.1 hotfix, closing 15 advisories including a critical P2SH disabled-opcode sigop undercount that could split the chain.