I'm a dev. What's still missing in the Zcash ecosystem?

[spirobel]

To resolve this and other use cases we need to have a rest api in the lightwalletD:

Low hanging fruit: add REST endpoints to LightwalletD

While it would be best for everyone to run their own node, realistically this is too much of a burden for first time users (that might be only using a smartphone). The lightwallet rpc is essential to serve this use case, but currently it only has a grpc based API. We should lower the barrier to entry to interact with the RPC. Take a look at the architecture diagram of the Zephyr project that got funded by a Zcash community grant. [image] The lower part of the diagram could be eliminated if l…