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GM. The fruit bowl of news is back, and these stories are looking extra zestful today.

See what's fresh on the plate:

🍍 BTC's back below $90K;

🚪 Zcash dev team walks out;

🍋 Anthropic seeks $10B, Fireblocks buys TRES Finance + more

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🚪 Zcash dev team walks out

Most people don't care who designs airplanes.

👉 You don't know their names.

👉 You don't follow them on social media.

👉 You don't check which engineer signed off on the wings before boarding a flight.

You just assume that someone serious and competent is in the room, making sure nothing goes horribly wrong.

Now imagine waking up to this headline:

"A large portion of Boeing's core engineering team has resigned following internal disagreements over control and direction."

Planes don't instantly fall out of the sky. Flights still take off. The Boeing logo doesn't disappear.

But something fundamental changes: confidence.

That's the right way to think about what just happened to Zcash.

That is a digital currency built around one main idea: privacy.

👉 Most blockchains are like public ledgers. Anyone can see transactions.

👉 Zcash was designed to offer an option where people can send money without showing every detail to the world.

But here's the thing: building privacy at that level is technically hard. The math is delicate, the systems are complex, and small mistakes can have big consequences.

Which naturally leads to the next part of the story...

For years, much of that technical responsibility sat with a group called Electric Coin Company, aka ECC.

Their job was to:

👉 Maintain core systems;

👉 Ship upgrades carefully;

👉 Make sure nothing subtle broke in a way no one noticed until it was too late.

And this week, most of ECC's development team resigned at once, after internal disagreements tied to governance, control, and long-term direction.

The markets reacted immediately - the price of Zcash (ZEC) dropped by ~11%.

Not because the system suddenly failed, but because people realized something important had changed:

The group with the deepest, most hands-on understanding of the system was no longer maintaining it.

And here's where the story widens out.

Zcash is often described as decentralized, and in many ways it is. Transactions are validated by a distributed network, not a single company.

But expertise doesn't decentralize easily.

In any complex system - airplanes, power grids, banking infrastructure, privacy-preserving software - a relatively small group understands:

👉 Why things were built a certain way;

👉 Which shortcuts are safe and which are dangerous;

👉 Where the hidden risks live.

When that group leaves without a clearly visible replacement, uncertainty fills the gap.

(And that uncertainty shows up quickly when money is involved.)

So... is this the end of Zcash?

Probably not.

The protocol still exists. The network still runs. And some of the work may continue under new structures.

What matters now is whether:

👉 New teams step in with credibility;

👉 Governance becomes clearer, not messier;

👉 The project shows it can function without depending on one core group.

That's a harder phase than building in the first place - but it's also the phase where systems either mature or fade.

Back to the plane.

You don't suddenly stop flying because you read one headline. But you do start paying attention to what used to fade into the background.

Zcash hasn't broken, but it's become something people are actively evaluating instead of passively trusting.

And for any system built around money, privacy, and long-term credibility - that matters a lot.

🍋 News drops you can't miss

🤖 Anthropic, the folks who built the AI assistant Claude, are looking to raise $10B and hit $350B valuation. That would put them in some seriously exclusive tech company territory.

📊 Fireblocks is buying TRES Finance, an on-chain accounting platform. The deal is valued at $130M.

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