Hello Zcashers,
Thanks for joining us for another Zcash update roundup. Our forum updates will now drop on Mondays.
Zcash updates
- Our teams continue to ramp up efforts related to Network Upgrade 5.
- You can now check out ECC Partnerships: Year in Review and ECC Engineering: Year in Review on the blog.
- Zooko chatted with CoinDesk TV about the state of digital and financial privacy in crypto.
- We welcomed Paul Brigner to the team! Paul is our Head of U.S. Public Policy and Strategic Advocacy.
- The Zcash Foundation is still welcoming speaker submissions for June’s Zcon3 event.
- Zooko’s fireside chat from Buidl Week at ETHDenver is available to watch now.
DevSecOps
- Additional analysis of Google Cloud usage and related organization
- Cleanup of Digital Ocean detectors
- Completed planning for group OKRs
- Started functional testing of IT Service Management platform
Core
- Merged Unified Address support.
(zcash#5419) - Merged the Auto-Shielding branch, part of the Data Access API. (librustzcash#341)
- Updated and new RPC methods for Unified Address support: z_listreceivedbyaddress (zcash#5508), z_exportviewingkey (#5519), z_sendmany (#5469), z_shieldcoinbase (#5490), z_getbalanceforaccount and z_getbalanceforaddress (#5500)
- Refactor how the transparent keypool is used (zcash#5529, #5531).
- Updated test vectors for Orchard and transparent keys to use ZIP 32 / BIP 44 derivation. (zcash-test-vectors#81, #82)
- Daira has started writing hir presentation slides for Zcon3, on “Understanding the Security of Zcash”.
Wallet
- Android:
- Wallet:
- Advances in Background sync !!!
- Dependency updates + regression on latest Android Release
- Automatic Screenshot generation
- SDK:
- Dependency updates + regression on latest Android Release
- Automation for Snapshot Releases (kudos Carter and Taylor)
- SDK Publishing automation
- Wallet:
- iOS:
- Wallet:
- Send/Request ZEC Flow Components (in progress)
- Wallet History (in progress)
- SDK:
- Released minor version with fresh checkpoints
- Fixed a recurring iOS CI issue (I hope this time for good!)
- Autoshielding PR was MERGED (Kudos to Kris, Daira, Str4d, Ying Tong)
- NU5 Wallet SDK API works (in progress)
- Rust-less build (in progress)
- Wallet:
In the news, Coinbase aired what was arguably the most talked-about commercial of the American SuperBowl. Geopolitical tension between Russia and Ukraine caused dips in coin prices across the board. India’s central bank has called cryptocurrency a “big threat” to financial stability.