[Zcash Developers Propose Shortening Block Interval to 20 Seconds] Odaily Planet Daily reports that Zcash developers ValarDragon and Evan Forbes submitted a draft proposal on Sunday to improve Zcash, suggesting reducing the target block interval from 25 seconds to 20 seconds. This proposal will be included in the next round of community voting and discussions for the upcoming NU7.1 network upgrade. The proposal states that this would shorten the initial transaction confirmation time, improving the experience of offline payments, exchange deposits, and cross-chain exchanges. The developers stated that shortening the block interval will not increase the network's total daily privacy transaction capacity, nor will it change Zcash's existing issuance plan. This proposal comes days after Zcash's NU7 upgrade went live on the mainnet on Friday, reducing the target block interval from 75 seconds to 25 seconds and introducing a network sustainability mechanism that redirects some transaction fees back to future mining rewards while maintaining a supply cap of 21 million ZEC. (Cointelegraph)