Hello Zcashers,
It’s the first forum update of 2022! Happy New Year to everyone in the Zcash community.
Zcash updates
- ECC’s Transparency Report covering Q2 2021 is now available.
- New release 4.6.0-1 is available.
- During the holiday season, ECC partnered with the Prison Mathematics Project, a nonprofit aimed at reducing recidivism through mathematics education. Daira spoke on the Prison Math Podcast.
- Apply to work at ECC!
- ZEC is now available on Okcoin.
- Zcon3, slated for late June 2022, is accepting speaker applications.
DevSecOps
- Consolidated VMs on Google Cloud to achieve better utilization of services and cost optimizations
- Software updates across older infrastructure to patch vulnerabilities
- Released zcashd v4.6.0 and v4.6.0-1
- Published version added for Debian 10 (buster)
- Onboarding our newest team member, Yasser (Senior DevSecOps Engineer)
Core
- Released zcashd versions 4.6.0 and 4.6.0-1
- Merged the proposed Orchard mainnet circuit
- Change the Action circuit in response to auditor comments, and make some Orchard gadgets reusable
- Merged release 0.3.0 of the pasta_curves crate
- Primarily in support of Trezor development
- TONs of Unified Address and wallet support work
- Add unified addresses to the zcashd wallet - zcash#5395
- Make address serialization and Unified container parsing respect Typecode order - zcash#5450, librustzcash#474
- ZIPs 32 and 316: Refine how IVK components are derived, and other cleanups - zips#564
- Make transparent signatures commit to all input amounts and scripts - librustzcash#472
- ZIP 244: Changes to transparent component of signature digest - zips#577
- Add test vectors for ZIPs 143, 243, 244, and 316 - zcash-test-vectors#68
- Update test vectors for ZIP 244 changes - zcash-test-vectors#61
- Use the transaction builder to implement z_sendmany - zcash#5458
Wallet
- SDK:
- Rust-less build for iOS - (in progress)
- We had contractor downtime so this didn’t move much
- Rust-less build for iOS - (in progress)
- Secant iOS Wallet
- Recovery Phrase Display + Validation
- integration w/ mock phrase
- Accessibility Fixes
- [FB9826116] Found bug in SwiftUI, created reproducing PoC, sent it to Apple :’-)
- Welcome Screen
- Recovery Phrase Display + Validation
- MnemonicSwift Library
- Licensing fixes (Kudos: Daira and Str4d)
- Bitrise CI integration For Swift Package Manager (Lower build time!)
- Secant Android Scaffolding
- Home
- Profile
- Wallet Details
- Github Actions (in-progress)
- Deployment Credentials
- SDK Releases
- App Builds Testing
- (and doing so securely)
In the news, FTX has launched a $2 billion venture fund. The U.S. Congress will hold a hearing to explore the environmental impacts of crypto mining. Could the Solana blockchain become the Visa of the digital asset ecosystem?