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Zcash’s prepared Sprout freeze would leave private keys unable to move funds
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Zcash's proposed NU7 upgrade would close the spending route out of its oldest privacy pool, Sprout, which still held about 22,309 ZEC on Oct. 17.
Key facts
- The zkp.baby dashboard recorded 22,309.44195128 ZEC in Sprout at block 3,521,260, updated at 19:10:09 UTC on Oct. 17
- The Zcash Foundation announced Zebra 7.0.0-rc.0 on Oct. 2, scheduling NU7 at testnet height 4,465,026 around Oct. 6
- ZIP 2003, created on Oct. 31, 2024, would take the further step of closing spending under NU7
- For that full-block scan, Argos estimates roughly 280 GB of transfer and potentially days of processing, while retaining less than 500 MB on disk
Summary
01 Zcash's proposed NU7 rules would leave remaining Sprout funds unspendable on the upgraded network, even with intact private keys. 02 Mainnet activation remains undecided, with an October 20 decision planned and November 5 still a conditional target. 03 Sprout exits expose amounts, while recovery can require days of scanning and no future spending mechanism is guaranteed. Mainnet activation remains undecided.