Sapling Hardfork
The Zcash twitter team have been building up the anticipation all week in the lead up to the Sapling update, and have earmarked October 28th for the initiation date – as per the Saturday’s tweet:
“Activation block 419200 will be mined October 28, 2018 18:21 UTC-05:00 assuming 150 seconds/block.”
The update is expected to improve the ZEC blockchain’s handling of shielded addresses. According to a recent blog post:
“Sapling is a network upgrade that introduces significant efficiency improvements for shielded transactions that will pave the way for broad mobile, exchange and vendor adoption of Zcash shielded addresses.”
More details on the update can be read here:
https://z.cash/upgrade/saplingProof:
https://hacked.com/zcash-zec-up-16-for-week-as-sapling-hardfork-approaches/