Hello Zcashers,
Happy Friday, and welcome to the last forum update of the year. See you in 2022!
Zcash updates
- The NU5 and Halo Arc timeline has been updated.
- Cypherpunk Zero explored the relationship between privacy and creative freedom on her Twitter page.
- Keep an eye on our events page to hear about upcoming ECC events on Twitter Spaces.
- Zcash has been relisted on Coinbase UK.
Community Shoutout
- Shoutout to Justin Renken for producing a great intro to Zcash video
DevSecOps
- Initial Pager Duty implementation and onboarding testing complete
- Updated Lightwalletd Operating Manual & Zcash CI Operating Manual
- Gave Engineering Brown Bag presentations on conferences attended by engineers
- Finishing last component of Zcashd debug binary package deployment via apt
- Hired Senior DevSecOps Engineer
- ZWallet security review (bug)
- NPS score brown bag discussion (notes)
Core
- Continued refining and simplifying the Halo 2 security proof
- Mary Maller started her official review this week
- Rewrote our Poseidon implementation
- We identified this as a possibility in early September when we found inconsistencies in various implementations (there was no precise spec)
- Implemented parsing and serialization of Unified {Incoming, Full} Viewing Keys
- Completed the EccConfig refactor
- Migrated to a Halo 2 version with AssignedCell
- AssignedCell is an abstraction for assigned cells of a given type
- Introduced a ternary expression helper
- Made great progress on Orchard support in the Zcashd wallet
Wallet
- SDK:
- Rust-less build for iOS - (in progress)
- New Repo for Rust code (GitHub - zcash-hackworks/zcash-light-client-ffi: Light Client FFI Layer for librustzcash)
- Reduce Build times by 20 minutes.
- Avoid surprising invoices from Bitrise CI
- Rust-less build for iOS - (in progress)
- Secant iOS Wallet
- Navigation Flow functionality validated
- Home, Onboarding, transaction history and detail, etc
- Secant iOS Wallet (cont’d)
- Onboarding Finished
- Secret Recovery Phrase Validation (in Review)
- Testflight builds fixed
- MnemonicSwift Library
- Swift Package Manager Support (in review)
- Component to make it friendlier to “The Composable Architecture” (TCA) (in review)
- Secant Android Wallet
- Onboarding Screens [Scaffold] (in progress)
- Recovery Phrase Backup and validation [Scaffold] (in progress)
- Dependency Updates
- App Startup improvements for older devices
- Apple M1 silicon support
- Zcash Android SDK
- Dependency Updates
- Log4j 0day research spike (we were not affected by it)
- Apple M1 silicon support
- Navigation Flow functionality validated
In the news, the U.S. stock market and Bitcoin are sliding into the end of the year. Russia’s central bank looks to ban crypto investments. A new CNBC survey found that most millennial millionaires have parked most of their wealth in crypto. India’s largest crypto exchange saw massive jumps in trading this year.