I don’t know the specifics of the Send Before Sync but YWallet does not require a 100 % synced wallet before spending. It’s been like that for as long as I can remember.
Edit: I see you mentioned “recently received”. That is indeed different.
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This is great news! I’ve been silently following the changes on the SDKs these last two months. I’m eager to test this out!
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What tags are the pre-release versions?
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I’ve lost track of the final metrics for DoD (definition of done). Is the ECC out of emergency mode yet?
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Not out of emergency mode yet. We’ve said we won’t exit emergency mode until:
- we’ve delivered the products and updates promised
- users can access and spend their ZEC
- we’re confident that wallets are not being impacted by frequent crashes or inconsistent behavior.
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Hi, folks! With the recent restructuring and team changes at ECC, I have personally taken over the management of engineering and product for our mobile SDKs and our Zashi wallet. (It’s my dream job! 
)
Earlier this month, we announced the pre-release availability of the Spend before Sync (SbS) capability in our mobile SDKs and that this was delivered to third-party wallet developers for implementation and testing.
Since then, our internal testing and our partner wallet developers (special thanks to Adi, Matthew, and Mandeep of Nighthawk) have helped us identify several bugs/UX-issues that need to be fixed before releasing the SDKs publicly. (Our own testing on SBS was less thorough than I understood it to be at the time, and we are grateful to our partners. 
) These updates are in development, and we are currently expecting to release new versions of the SDKs — with full SBS capability — soon.
There are also ongoing issues with the Zcash mempool, apparently involving new/modified “sandblasting” behavior. We are working with Nighthawk and the rest of the Light Client Working Group on that, and we’ll update you as we go.
I’ve also been working with the developers and UX/UI designers for our own Zcash wallet — Zashi — and I am super excited about the progress being made. As you may know, the ECC team opened a Zashi closed beta program a few weeks back, and we have received a lot of good feedback from our initial cohort of beta testers.
We’ll provide another update on all of these projects soon, so keep an eye on this forum and ECC’s X (Twitter) channel!
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Were or are people on vacation during the crisis?
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Meet the new boss… same as the old boss…
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(Thanks, GGuy!)
Folks, just to reiterate, our current priority at Electric Coin Co is exiting Emergency Mode. Our definition of success here is that users of our code (i.e. users of Nighthawk, Unstoppable, and Edge) have access to their ZEC and can reliably send and receive ZEC. More specifically, these are the criteria we are laser focused on:
We believe that this is the most important thing we can do right now to support our mission of supporting a global, open currency that protects the freedom, dignity, and consent of everyone all over the world.
The next step in our work is to deliver a thoroughly tested mobile SDK that implements Spend Before Sync, which will hopefully check off all four of these boxes. Stay tuned!
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Why not sponsor Ywallet and have the team contribute to that ongoing project instead of using dev cycles on a completely new wallet? Seems like it would allow for more resources to be spent on the p0 emergency/perf. issues.
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I could not agree more here. It is a complete waste of effort and money for ECC to be building their own wallet. It is fairly obvious at this point that multi-currency wallets are preferred to single-currency wallets. For mass adoption, consumers will choose well-known and proven track records for their funds.
Not to mention it is in direct competition with ecosystem partners who have more resources and are better suited to build this kind of product because it is their primary objective!
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Unless the ECC Wallet has some real secret sauce, makes no point indeed. To echo Josh, “The project isn’t well funded enough for all the duplicative efforts.”
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I disagree with your opinion. The Zcash community has specifically requested a wallet developed by ECC or ZF in recent months. The community has also criticized ECC for the lack of an “official” wallet despite many years have passed. While community-developed wallets are certainly a positive aspect, users want to be sure that such wallets are not suddenly abandoned by their development team, as has happened in the past. Therefore, I believe that ECC is on the right track and that this should not discourage independent developers from creating better wallets.
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How thin can you spread an engineering team that has already been reduced from recent layoffs?
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I remember, I also wanted an official wallet but it was a long time ago and the landscape has changeg (layoffs, price, Hanh… ).
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I think people are mixing up things. ECC already has a “wallet”, and has had it for a while: the mobile SDK and underlying crates. This is what they’re working on (improving the SDK), and this is what Nighthawk etc. use.
They may be also working on Zashi (a GUI wallet), but AFAIK that is not their main priority right now and is not part of exiting emergency mode.
You may not agree that Zashi is needed but I think the SDK is crucial. Developers can’t easily use Ywallet code to develop their own applications. The SDK/crates should provide that. IMO to turn Ywallet into that would take much more effort.
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Nope, I’m not mixing things up. I remember building the ECC wallet myself from their code a while ago.
It is great they provide an SDK that works with Zcash network, because they know the internals very well and are the crypto experts that you can trust.
Matter of fact, the ECC has delivered a lot of code to Zebra, and they probably deserves more credit than they currently get.
But is building a GUI in their core competencies ? And do we want it ? I don’t think so.
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I interpret “official wallet” to mean a wallet that’s promoted / available on the main website and whose engineering/security is backed by ECC and/or ZF. IMO, that doesn’t mean it has to be entirely developed by ECC, they could alternatively put some of their engineering resources behind a community wallet. There are risks to doing that, however, such as relying on whichever wallet they choose to continue to be funded through ZCG, and not being in control of all design decisions and the release process.
IMO, an efficient use of resources would be for ECC to focus on developer tooling, libraries, and docs, to make it easier for community developers to build more Zcash-based apps and services (i.e. more than just mobile apps).
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