Shawn, thank you for your comments. We tried to replicate the other proposals not understanding the full context in other discussions on the forum.
We have outlined a more specific set of requirements for each milestone here:
If you have any specific questions or comments, please let us know that we can address those and make adjustments accordingly.
The amount we are requesting is our best assessment about the amount of effort and time it will take to implement a reliable Zcash wallet with a smooth experience that will be familiar to existing Cake Wallet users. We also wish to prioritize the implementation to go live as soon after NU5 as possible, not start months from now.
@holmesworcester Yes, this is full integration of Zcash within the same Cake Wallet application with over 150,000 users. It will not be a separate application, unless the community really wants a separate application for some reason. We advise against this because Zcash will miss out on the bulk of the user-base and it will miss out on the harmony of the integrations (eg: easy exchanges between BTC/ZEC and XMR/ZEC).