Hi Zeeps,
Short update this week. I’m on vacation until tomorrow.
I traveled to find space for my family and in my mind.
It was drifting among the mangroves where I found peace.
It was in the push of the rain against the waves that I found solemn strength.
But it was in the sky that a flame met my gaze and beckoned me onward.
See you next week.
Here’s what the rest of the team was up to this week:
Zashi
Released Zashi 1.5 with Ledger Recovery Support
Zashi Design
- Made progress on App Redesign: Shielding UI, Syncing + Restoring UI, Balances UI, Cross-chain payments for Maya/Near
- Small adjustments to Secret Recovery Phrase and Wallet Backup designs
- Made a bunch of ad hoc product and engineering-requested edits
- Improvements to Receive ZEC designs (to support address rotation)
Q&A and Dev Support
- Finalized QA checklist w/ Zashi team
- created Github issues for remaining UI updates
- Zashi 1.5 Release Testing
- Zcash Brave announcement support
- Community & Socials management
- Content creation
- User Support
- Zcash Dev-Tool + testnet Zashi transparent recovery testing
- Updated ECC page on ZecHub
Zashi iOS
2.0 Release:
- Finished all flows (iOS 16+ navigation): Scan flows from Home Screen (new button), Transaction Detail screens, Transactions with filters, Scan using the system camera, warning flow, Currency Conversion flow, Keystone Send flows + Shielding, Balances sheet
- Released initial testing build 0.6.0-1
- Released 0.6.0-2 with fixes addressing initial feedback
1.5 Release:
- Adopted the latest librustzcash crates version + FFI version
- Released and submitted 2 release candidate builds
WIP: Restore flow redesign with recovery phrase suggestions
Analytics Update:
- Unique Installs: 7.08k
- Total Downloads: 8.44k
- AppStore Rating: 4.9*
Zashi Android
2.0 Release:
- Secret Recovery Phrase screen redesigned (added a bottom sheet with more information)
- Balances widget redesigned
- Available balance moved to the Send screen
- Fixed an issue where empty message was displayed during loading on Transaction Detail screen
- Fixed an issue where read/unread memo icon was blinking on Transaction widget on the Home Screen or Transaction History
- Updated illustration on the Home Screen empty state
- Scanning ZIP321 is now disabled on the Send Screen when navigated to by the Send Again button from Transaction Detail screen
- Corrected button colors on the Receive screen
Added SharedPreferences persistence logic to SDK
Adopted the latest BIP39 v1.0.9 in Zashi
Improved our CI to build the FOSS variant of Zashi preemptively
1.5 Release
- Adopted the latest librustzcash crates version and prepared necessary Kotlin side changes
- Prepared releases, tested, and fixed several issues
Analytics Update:
- Total Install Base: 3.74k
- Total Installs (incl. Open Beta): 16.6k
- PlayStore Rating: 4.49*
Zcash Core
- A couple of core team members were out in Sofia with others in the Zcash community this week for HACS, Real World Crypto, and ZkProof.
- The core team is fully focused on zcashd wallet replacement, working on Zingo integration into Zallet and migrating data from the zcashd wallet using the zewif infrastructure from the Blockchain Commons team.
Other
Reminder: the deadline for ZIP submissions for community polling on the funding mechanism is in a couple of days. Due to issues uncovered with the audit of the coinholder polling tool, polling will be pushed out a week or so but we currently plan to start it no later than April 17th. I’ll formally adjust after I get back this coming week.
That’s all for this week.
Aflame,
Onward.