TPM @ZcashFoundation 🛡️ · Building with AI agents · Shipping systems, sharing what works · Opinions my own
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Zebra is now the fastest node in the Zcash ecosystem.
Zebra Ándale accepts a block built from its own template 9.6× faster than 7.0.0 and 3-4× faster than Zakura.
Miners told us what was slow at Zcon7. We fixed it.
forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/z…
New work reaches miners faster too.
An empty peer block becomes a template in 2 ms. Zakura takes 2.6 s.
An empty solved block reaches a peer in 2.6 ms. Zakura takes 1.1 s.
Full post: forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/z…
The technical details and how we measured it, by Marek: hackmd.io/@upbqdn/mining-on-…
Two halves, one standard: infrastructure boring enough to trust, and privacy ordinary enough that nobody has to think about it.
That's a clear brief to build against. Congrats @alchemyDC , and thank you Alex.
Let's ship!
Yesterday the Zcash Foundation board named me Executive Director. Thank you to Alex for steady leadership through a tumultuous stretch, and to everyone who has reached out this week.
The job as I see it has two halves: 1) keep the infrastructure fast, secure, and boring. 2) make privacy something ordinary people use without having to think about it.
I don’t think privacy is a feature, and I don’t think it’s a niche. It’s the room a society needs to think, speak, associate, and change its mind. Any system people depend on for daily life should give them that room by default. That’s the standard I’ll hold our work to.
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hackathon alert: ZECATHON by zkSNARKs
$100,000 in $ZEC prizes for developers building privacy-focused products on Zcash.
organized by zkSNARKs, ZECATHON is looking for useful applications, infrastructure and tools that can bring more people into the Zcash ecosystem.
- prize pool: $100,000 in $ZEC
- deadline: late october 2026 (exact date to be confirmed)
- ecosystem: Zcash
- submissions: open
prize breakdown:
- grand prize: $20,000
- shielded payments: $15,000
- private markets: $15,000
- cross-chain: $15,000
- core & tooling: $15,000
- wildcard: $15,000
- community choice: $5,000
what can you build?
- private payment solutions for checkout, payroll, invoices and tipping
- private trading platforms, auctions and marketplaces
- cross-chain swaps, wallet integrations and onboarding tools
- SDKs, developer tools, explorers and testing infrastructure
- games, education, art and other creative applications using Zcash
the competition is focused on working products that make privacy more useful and accessible.
to participate:
- register on the official website
- choose a track
- review the rules and developer resources
- build and submit your project before the deadline
full judging criteria, submission requirements and the exact deadline are available through the event platform.
registration and submissions are open.
thezecathon.com/
Grateful to join @ZcashFoundation 🛡️
My job: coordinate engineering across ZF's projects and keep the path from idea to working code short.
Starting by listening and learning. If something in the dev process feels slow or unclear, DMs are open.
🎉 Welcoming @DeArcayne to the team as our Technical Program Manager!
zfnd.org/zcash-foundation-we…
Free and works incredibly well with Cmux and or Herdr
"real-time audio transcription using the Whisper model"
github.com/starmel/OpenSuper…
Matt Pocock’s 50+ minute walkthrough on AI coding covers a broader system for keeping agents effective: smart-zone context, “Grill Me,” PRDs, vertical slices, AFK execution, and TDD.
Here’s the practical breakdown in under two minutes.
Source: youtube.com/watch?v=-QFHIoCo…
DearKane retweeted
We just launched Xirp, a vendor-neutral agentic development environment. One place to manage agent sessions across @ClaudeDevs, @GeminiApp CLI, and @OpenAI Codex. 1,300+ @Spotify engineers already use it. Now it's available for you to try. Learn more at xirp.spotify.com.
Whoever you are, don't outsource your understanding, judgement, empathy and taste to AI.
Don't abdicate your responsibility. Don't be a meat proxy.
Agents as a new kind of web visitor
blog.cloudflare.com/the-agen…
recommend read
x402 is forcing a product question => what should an AI agent actually pay for in real-time? 🤖💸
For trading agents, the wallet opens for:
⚡️ High-quality data
⚡️ Simulation
⚡️ Execution
⚡️ Risk checks
Generic content paywalls? Not a chance.
What I’m watching in x402 now is less “can an agent pay an endpoint?” and more "can a marketplace of paid endpoints be trusted by agents at runtime?"
Sweet spot for me so far is Luna High as workhorse
GPT-5.6 Sol and Luna are ahead of Terra at every point on the Intelligence vs Cost per Task chart. GPT-5.6 Luna stands out as a particularly cost efficient model
Charting the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index shows the trade-off between intelligence and Cost per Intelligence Index Task. Across reasoning efforts, each GPT-5.6 model pushes past GPT-5.5 on the Pareto frontier (excluding non-reasoning).
However, Luna and Sol are always ahead of Terra. This means for any Terra effort level, there is a Luna or Sol effort level that is more intelligent at no extra cost, or as intelligent at lower cost.
