July 2025 Working: Zen Shutdown

Horizen (ZEN) Mining End -Full Shutdown Complete

~ July 22, 2025Mining Yellow (did it) Officially ended for 2 minutes. This is followed by the announcement of the main transition of the project. Basic network (Ether Leeum Layer 2 Solution). As part of this strategic change, the Horizen block chain Block 1,807,300to July 23rd 6:00 UTC.

Ours Zen Mining Pool was closed at 12:00 UTC on July 22. Make sure you can handle all final payments before hard fork.

The final payment was successfully sent to all miners.

We are saddened by this sudden change. The decision to migrate is amazing at us and the community. You can read more about Horizen’s upgrade on the official announcement page.

If you are looking for an alternative Equihash coin, it is highly recommended. Zcash (ZEC). You can use BTC payments!

Flux v8.0.0 -Main node upgrade

The Flux Development Team has been released Flux Daemon v8.0.0The main upgrade that causes more important structural changes than coming V9 fork 4Q plans for 2025.

The main changes are:

• Half of the block reward has been removed Stabilize node work before the V9 upgrade.
• Support for 32 -bit systems has been suspended. The build of the i386 is no longer provided.
• Improved chain analysis Getchaintips RPC now supports block height filters for faster queries.
• GitHub operation CI/CD integration replaces legacy CI systems for better automation, testing and artifact management.
• Improvement of cross compiles For ARM64 and Windows Binaries (modifications for toolchain updates and binary stripping).
• New Vision Mode Farcane flags have been added for advanced tests and benchmarking scenarios using unmanaged_fluxbenchd.

This release lays the foundation for major architecture changes expected in Flux V9. All node operators are recommended to upgrade as soon as possible.

Reduction of compensation

Ergo (ERG)

Depending on the official ERGO tokenomics and Discharge scheduleBlock rewards have been reduced.

• Previous rewards: 15 ERG
• New rewards: 12 ERG

Kaspa (what)

Another planned reduction Kaspa emission schedule Kaspa Creshen also occurred as part of the hard fork process.

• Previous rewards: 5.19 Who
• New rewards: 4.90 Who

Carlson (KLS)

Karlsen block reward Karlsencoin discharge schedule.

• Previous rewards: 30.56 kLs
• New rewards: 29.71 kLs

As always, check the 2Cryptocalc to check the latest profitability and plan your strategy accordingly.

This concludes the main event in July 2025. Follow us in X (Twitter) and join the Telegram community for immediate updates and support.