Install
The CLI that tails the Zcash network the way a wallet reads it: every block, every shielded pool, every upgrade and the halving, live, with alerts.
Install The CLIZecTools speaks gRPC to a public lightwalletd, the same endpoint a Zcash wallet syncs from. There is no key to request, no account to make and no server between you and the chain. That is also why the install is the whole setup.
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Real output, captured from the network. Every transcript on this site is generated by running the CLI, never typed by hand.
A shielded transaction hides its amounts and its parties, not its existence. Every
block says how many notes each pool gained, and the note commitment trees only grow.
In the last 24 hours the chain created 37,586 notes,
and 69.8% of its 20,120 transactions touched a pool.
The network reports its consensus branch on every read. Today that is
37a5165b, which is NU6.3,
with no upgrade scheduled by the server.
zec upgrades keeps the whole history next to the live answer.
The subsidy is 1.56250000 ZEC a block and halves at
4,406,400, 913,920 blocks from here, about
2.2 years. zec supply computes issuance from the height with the
spec's own formula and checks it against what a node reports.
Every compact block carries the size of each note commitment tree as of that block. A
tree only grows, one leaf per shielded output, so the difference between two blocks is
exactly the number of notes the blocks in between created. zec pools reads
both and checks that they agree.
A public full node adds the balances: 4,912,591.19 ZEC sits shielded across four pools, 28.98% of the 16,946,632.97 ZEC in existence, and 3,994,347.17 of it is in Ironwood, the pool the network opened in July 2026.
zec pools --window 1152
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zec check on a transparent address reads its balance and unspent outputs.
On a Sapling or unified address it tells you what kind it is, why there is nothing to
read without the viewing key, and stops. The point of Zcash is that this is impossible,
and a tool that pretended otherwise would be lying.
The same is true of the whole site: nothing here decrypts anything. The counts are the shape of the traffic, which the network publishes on purpose so that the pools can be audited without being opened.
The same commands run in the browser at /console. The CLI is free and open because it reads a public network and any gate on it would be theatre; the console is the hosted convenience, gated by holding the token once it launches on Pons v2 on Robinhood Chain.
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