On November 5, 2026, the Zcash network activates the NU7 upgrade. If you hold ZEC, the most important answer is also the least dramatic one: you do not need to move your coins, swap them or pull them off an exchange. The only people who have to act are those who run infrastructure themselves, meaning a full node, an indexer or a block explorer. The rest of this article explains why that is the case, which four dates matter between now and then, and where German rules on tax and custody still come into play.