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Zcash Is About to Get 3x Faster With NU7, and ZEC Traders Are Already Buying In

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The date for Zcash’s next major network upgrade has been set by its developers. Network Upgrade 7 or NU7 for short will activate at block 3,543,405 , which is set to land around November 5. Once it goes live, the upgrade will make payments on the privacy-focused blockchain three times faster by producing a new block every 25 seconds instead of every 75. Traders have not waited for the activation with the token now trading near $1,300, up over 15% over the past week. ZEC climbed from roughly $1,060 on October 19 to a high close to $1,360 on October 21. Its market cap now sits at around $22 billion and is the ninth largest crypto asset.

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