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November 2025
Support and bug fixes for the Coinholder-Directed Retroactive Grants Program
- Tools and documentation for the deployment of the Election Validators
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Scale up the number of concurrent elections to support the CDRG
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Switch to Rust Async for better concurrency and performance (specially server side)
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Add progress bars to voting client
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Fix issue with app synchronization
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Bug fixes
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Is there a list somewhere of all the polls that are performed via this coin voting system?
Hey I created a list on my recent retro application you can use here. Check under proof of completion section.
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Thanks, cool info!
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December 2025 Update - zcvlib: v0.2.0
hhanh00 released this 1 minute ago
0.2.0 (2025-12-26)
Features
- ABCI application skeleton (#29) (244aef3)
- add http client to cometbft engine (#31) (fcad6af)
- add more db tables (#6) (3afc00f)
- add rocket/rpc server (#34) (10610ea)
- cometbft app bin (#33) (6dd0bdc)
- compute initial voting power (balance) (#21) (d791478)
- create election (#2) (ddb3fac)
- db creation (#5) (4b70f91)
- detect spends and store them in database (#20) (2ffc0ac)
- encrypt ballot data (#24) (f9a932e)
- get_blocks (#8) (e5c69e1)
- lwd connector (#7) (1740a4a)
- parse election and store in db (#10) (f4bbeb8)
- scan for notes (#9) (4951e3b)
- store ballot in db (#27) (be327b7)
- store election seed (#26) (28dec9e)
- store incoming notes into db (#13) (05744d2)
- try decrypt ballot data (#23) (0f20986)
- vote server rpc (#30) (3a47bc9)
Bug Fixes
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January 2026 Update
0.1.0 (2026-01-24)
Features
- setup: build docker image via github action (#58) (813ed18)
- setup: build multi platform vote server docker image (#60) (178a768)
- setup: config read/parse (#56) (82430b4)
- setup: config read/parse (#57) (00c1aea)
- setup: project template (#55) (bb2c743)
0.3.0 (2026-01-24)
Features
- apphash calculation (#44) (a99daaa)
- fetch ballots fn (#48) (1125768)
- fetch ballots fn (#49) (217cf60)
- store ballot in finalize_block (#46) (daf76af)
- submit ballot through cometbft (#42) (0d7d7c4)
- submit_ballot rpc (#40) (379e047)
- tally election ballots test (#52) (bbd6fb9)
- tally votes (#50) (869c946)
- test for ballots with large amounts (#53) (b59866c)
- test for ballots with large amounts (#54) (0ff936b)
Bug Fixes
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0.4.0 (2026-02-19)
Features
- add command line parser to voter-cometbft (#94) (ec8c015)
- add memo encryption (#65) (f694cbc)
- add support for dynamically added validators (#71) (9faacfc)
- auditor: collect results (#110) (1bc5a3e)
- auditor: decode ballots (#109) (7469ddf)
- auditor: scan ballots and decrypt data (#100) (eef9e9f)
- binary ballot serialization (#67) (4005433)
- collapse votes to a question to a single address (#63) (d5db8cf)
- detect spends/delegation during scan ballots (#107) (3086f36)
- duplicate nullifier detection (#111) (997a42e)
- election creator cli (#123) (084b41f)
- expose validator API to GRPC (#73) (fd3e76b)
- extended election format (#83) (604c842)
- get_address of account api (#104) (305beb8)
- grpc vote service (#69) (eaa231f)
- improve error message reporting of add_validator (#76) (d8213f2)
- mint & delegation api (#103) (7155839)
- plurality voting (#66) (e228ce3)
- query blocks api (#98) (cfcebe0)
- query blocks api (#99) (13b3f2a)
- scan blocks mutation (#89) (71d12e3)
- set the election data via GRPC (#79) (200004c)
- set voting seed api (#82) (3110a23)
- set_election rpc (rpc only) (#77) (d291f61)
- store current sync height & note position in election table (#96) (8476d28)
- support scanning multiple accounts at once (#117) (16d8f9c)
- support scanning multiple accounts at once (#118) (919d6af)
- ui: flutter ui (#85) (e53fde4)
- use figment for config file parsing (#70) (099141b)
- voter app graphql cli (#81) (25bb419)
- Voter CI (#90) (3047da7)
- voter: integration tests (#88) (62f6e20)
- voter: vote method (#91) (ecb0558)
Bug Fixes
- ballot output creation (#101) (b88790a)
- ballot vote should only go to associated question (#102) (645cdb8)
- cometbft integration test (#68) (5aae7c9)
- get_balance (#106) (b5e9364)
- GRPC GetVoteRange (#97) (c3c4864)
- improve double spend detection (#112) (6e5ecc3)
- regen Context constructor (#116) (716726e)
- remove tally ballots (#108) (d19f32e)
- scan_ballots should store progression (#105) (3cbbe6e)
- test ballot (#72) (5b3f98e)
- use async aware mutex (#113) (c777664)
Chores
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March 2026 Update
Most noticeably, this update enpowers the Coin Directed Grant Program Q1 2026.
Changelog
0.5.0 (2026-03-15)
Features
- add caption field to election (#148) (3db5882)
- add docker ci (#156) (b7f2821)
- add get_election rpc to vote server (#131) (564ab39)
- add scan progress reporter (#133) (44bb541)
- add zkproof and sign (#139) (af5fbb6)
- ballot validation zkp & signature (#141) (f447f55)
- cache witness checks (#144) (25e13d2)
- check against past cmx_roots (#143) (2a5c9a2)
- check election domain vs ballot domain (#152) (de38810)
- check nf_root & cmx_root (#142) (f4bfa1d)
- client: delete election (#135) (0169edf)
- optimize check_tx with block production (#147) (e76e78b)
- remove multi-election support and nested questions (#140) (47fb188)
- return voteid from vote() (#150) (8057851)
- save nfs & cmxs (#136) (ff5c516)
- store ballot/action cmx (#137) (8c24ea2)
- vote delegation to a given address (#151) (4166ef8)
- warmup circuit validation key (#146) (cd10ef3)
Bug Fixes
- add a prefix v_ to every table (#130) (a141866)
- avoid scanning blocks if they were scanned before (#134) (d5ee50e)
- remove hash param from get_election (#149) (598adf0)
- rename start → lock (#154) (e98aa13)
- use full range nu7 (#153) (11c32f4)
Chores
- add startup message (#158) (b7f2deb)
- add trace message (#145) (8516271)
- installation script (#160) (365d8fe)
- remove dead code (#138) (11fbcb1)
- remove flutter rust bridge (#128) (bd9fdcd)
0.5.1 (2026-03-19)
Bug Fixes
0.5.2 (2026-03-19)
Bug Fixes
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Integration with PIR
Thanks to @ValarDragon
This allows the usage of any orchard note prior to the snapshot height, and therefore eliminates the need of the registration window.
A test election has been setup. Details will follow.
zcvlib: v0.6.0
hhanh00 released this 7 minutes ago
0.6.0 (2026-04-20)
Features
- add caption field to election (#148) (3db5882)
- add check_witnesses that verifies that we have enough witness data (#204) (93942cf)
- add docker ci (#156) (b7f2821)
- add get_election rpc to vote server (#131) (564ab39)
- add pir config option (#184) (53bd847)
- add scan progress reporter (#133) (44bb541)
- add zkproof and sign (#139) (af5fbb6)
- ballot validation zkp & signature (#141) (f447f55)
- cache witness checks (#144) (25e13d2)
- check against past cmx_roots (#143) (2a5c9a2)
- check election domain vs ballot domain (#152) (de38810)
- check nf_root & cmx_root (#142) (f4bfa1d)
- client: delete election (#135) (0169edf)
- counter cli app (#178) (91ca16b)
- import notes from spending wallet to voting wallet (#186) (044d1ff)
- optimize check_tx with block production (#147) (e76e78b)
- pir: get root & tree state from servers instead of downloading blocks (#185) (675dfec)
- pir: start adding support for PIR server (5c35133)
- remove multi-election support and nested questions (#140) (47fb188)
- remove start from election def (#195) (ac4c395)
- return voteid from vote() (#150) (8057851)
- save nfs & cmxs (#136) (ff5c516)
- store ballot/action cmx (#137) (8c24ea2)
- switch voting account & delete current data (#176) (89d9a2c)
- update cmx after scan ballots (#189) (082e367)
- vote delegation to a given address (#151) (4166ef8)
- vote with merkle proofs calculated externally (PIR) (#187) (330a8a9)
- warmup circuit validation key (#146) (cd10ef3)
Bug Fixes
- add a prefix v_ to every table (#130) (a141866)
- add election schema version check (#179) (05fb632)
- add nf proof (#193) (ab43f36)
- apphash should be saved to db and recovered at startup (#171) (c0b1e6b)
- avoid scanning blocks if they were scanned before (#134) (d5ee50e)
- cmx witness update after scan_ballots (#190) (8012df0)
- fetch & import in a db tx (#199) (782b46a)
- integration with zkool (#197) (bbb2396)
- notes spent after the snapshot should be usable (#198) (89a5c21)
- only use orchard notes for voting (#188) (3180f95)
- recover election state (domain, nf_root, cmx_tree) on hot restart (#180) (6b07e6b)
- remove hash param from get_election (#149) (598adf0)
- remove old dependency orchard/vote, migrate to orchard-vote (#203) (ab00437)
- rename start → lock (#154) (e98aa13)
- should db commit in Commit and not FinalizeBlock (#174) (dfec1e9)
- use full range nu7 (#153) (11c32f4)
Chores
- add startup message (#158) (b7f2deb)
- add trace message (#145) (8516271)
- installation script (#160) (365d8fe)
- release main (#163) (9e7f992)
- remove dead code (#138) (11fbcb1)
- remove flutter rust bridge (#128) (bd9fdcd)
- split server/client/counter/voter into features (#206) (0d9c69a)
- use refactored orchard vote crates (#200) (78ae8d2)
- use zcash-trees standalone repo (#202) (b9101b2)
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This month was spent making updates to the creation, deployment, and monitoring.
Also, Zkool will support the coin voting from Zodl.
PS: The change log format has changed, and it’s a bit messy for now.
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This month was spent working on integrating the new coin voting mechanism with the PIR server.
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This month was spent on integrating the Ironwood protocol and the ZSA protocol, bringing Zkool 6.25.1 to support both chains.
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