A running log of what the Zcash chain is doing right now: how fast blocks arrive, how busy the mempool is, and how much of the coin supply sits inside the private, shielded pools.
Collecting the latest counters…
Counters come from Blockchair's Zcash stats feed and lag the chain tip by a block or two. Hashrate for Equihash is measured in solutions per second (Sol/s).
| Pool | ZEC | Share | ≈ USD |
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Pool balances are the valuePools figures a full node keeps for every block. A shielded pool's total is public even though the individual notes inside it are not.
Samples are pulled one block at a time (daily for the last 90 days, then monthly), so the line fills in over the first hour after the service starts.
| Height | Mined | Txs | Size | Net shielded Δ |
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Each height opens the block on blockchair.com. "Net shielded Δ" is Blockchair's per-block total change in shielded value: green means more ZEC entered shielded pools than left in that block, red the reverse. Blockchair counts the lockbox share of each block reward (0.1875 ZEC) in this figure, so a quiet block still shows that small plus. Per-block fees are left out on purpose: explorers that infer fees from transparent inputs minus outputs overstate them whenever value moves into a shielded pool.
Transparent addresses (starting with t) work like Bitcoin: sender, receiver and amount are all visible to anyone. Shielded addresses keep those details encrypted on chain. Modern wallets hand out a unified address (starting with u) that bundles both kinds so the sender's wallet can pick the private route.
Inside a pool, a payment spends old encrypted "notes" and creates new ones. A zero-knowledge proof convinces every node the maths adds up and nothing is spent twice, without revealing who paid whom or how much.
That a transaction happened, roughly when, its fee, how many inputs and outputs it has, and any value crossing between the transparent side and a shielded pool. Moving coins in and straight back out with the same amount can be linked by timing and size.
Sprout (2016) was the first pool and is now closed to new deposits. Sapling (2018) made proofs fast enough for phones. Orchard (2022) uses the Halo 2 proof system, which needs no trusted setup ceremony.
The newest pool, added in a 2026 network upgrade. Funds leaving Orchard now pass through a turnstile into Ironwood, so the total in each pool can be checked and a hidden counterfeit could not keep circulating unseen.
A shielded wallet can export a read-only viewing key. Whoever holds it can see that wallet's incoming (and, with a full key, outgoing) payments but cannot spend anything. It is how auditors, accountants or exchanges can be given visibility on your terms.
Every time value crosses into or out of a shielded pool, the amount is public. Nodes track a running balance for each pool and refuse any block that would push one below zero. That is where the pool totals above come from.
Since late 2024 part of each block reward goes to a protocol lockbox for future development funding rather than to a person. It is neither ordinary transparent coins nor shielded, so it is listed on its own.
Uses the conventional fee rule most wallets follow (ZIP 317). Count parts as they appear in the transaction.
Shielded share = (Sprout + Sapling + Orchard + Ironwood) ÷ total chain value reported by the node. Transparent coins and the development lockbox count in the total but not in the shielded part. USD values multiply ZEC by the current price and ignore anything else.
It does not look up addresses, guess who owns coins or try to de-anonymise anyone. It holds no funds and has no sign-in. If a source fails, the affected reading shows a dash rather than a guess.
Figures are informational, may lag or be wrong, and are not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold anything. Verify on your own node before relying on them. Zcash is a trademark of its respective owners; it is used here only to describe the network being measured.