Top: estimated network hashrate (solutions per second) computed from block difficulty via hashrate = difficulty × 2¹³ / target_block_time. Higher hashrate means more mining power securing the network.
Bottom: day-over-day difficulty change as a percentage. Green bars indicate increasing difficulty (more miners joining), red bars indicate decreasing difficulty (miners leaving). Zcash adjusts difficulty every block using a rolling average, so changes are smooth rather than step-wise like Bitcoin.
Network Hashrate was 28.63B on 2026-09-26, the last full day of data. That is 10.4% higher than 28 days ago, when it was 25.93B.
🔗 permalink ⇆ compareNeither number is measured directly — nobody can count the machines. Hashrate is inferred from difficulty, which is itself set by how fast recent blocks arrived. A run of lucky blocks reads as a hashrate spike that never happened, so treat short-term moves as noise and the trend as signal.
Difficulty is the network's thermostat. It retargets to hold blocks near Zcash's 75-second spacing: more mining pushes difficulty up until block times come back to target, less pulls it down. That is why difficulty tracks hashrate rather than causing it.
Zcash uses Equihash, which is memory-hard, so its hashrate is quoted in solutions per second and cannot be compared with Bitcoin's SHA-256 hashes per second — they count different work. For a comparison that does mean something, implied mining power converts both to electricity.