July 14, 2022 - ECC Forum Update

[januszgrze]

Hey everyone! This a delayed forum update for the month of June. If there’s any questions/comments, feel free to shoot me a dm on Twitter.

ECC updates

• We released our initial phase for proof of stake research
• PGP (Pretty Good Policy) continues to be a hit in Washington
• Zooko delivered a keynote at the CiB conference in Switzerland
• Josh Swihart released a blog around modern surveillance
• I released a perspectives piece on NU5
• Cypherpunk Zero public mint closes, looks to future with comics, a community-led DAO and cross-chain activations

The following updates are from 6/20/2022. Updates for the rest of June will be included in the next forum update.

Core

• Integrated cxx.rs into the build system
  • Replaces the hand-wired FFI between the Rust and C++ components with an encapsulated interop layer
• Updated zcash_address to enable parser errors to be exposed
• Integrated cargo-vet into the build system to establish trust in Rust dependencies
• Making progress on the recursion-related APIs in Halo
• Working on a substantial update to our CI system to improve reliability and build / test times
• 0xPARC Halo 2 Learning Group
  • 4-week learning group by 0xPARC (applied zk collective, mostly on Ethereum)
  • Goals:
    • introduce halo2 to a wider audience
    • understand users’ needs and feature requests
    • see some cool uses of halo2 in the wild!
  • program outline:
    • intro to PLONKish / halo2
    • AMA / Office Hours with daira / str4d
    • guest speakers from DarkFi, Orbis, zkEVM
    • participant lightning talks and projects
  • participants comprise a community of expert researchers / developers

DevSecOps

• Finalizing Tekton upgrade - internal ECC announcement to follow
  • Improved scaling, security and stability improvements
• Grafana Tools Update
• iOS Auditing
• Continuing development of a Rust-based Seeder

Wallet

• Secant Wallet iOS Build 0.0.1-29
  • Snapshot testing in place and automated for everyscreen
  • Navigation Routing and support for Deeplinks
• SDK:
  • [#382] ZIP-302 compliant memo type (#385) (in review)
  • [#381] Zatoshi and number formatting to the SDK (in progress
• iOS:
  • SDK:
    • [#382] ZIP 302-compliant memo type (#385)
    • [#388] Integrate libzcashlc 0.0.3 to support v5 transaction parsing (#390)
    • [#383] Fix Darksidewalletd tests failing to retrieve a checkpoint (#386)
    • ECC Reference Wallet Support for NU5 v5 transactions
• Android:
  • Wallet:
    • Automated deployment to Google Play internal testing track on each merge to main branch
    • CI to generate debug builds and documentation for sideloading
    • Adopted Compose 1.2 API changes
    • Major stability and bug fixes to prevent multiple clicks in the UI
    • Automated screenshots in light/dark mode and pseudolocales
  • SDK:
    • Automated publishing for SDK and BIP-39 project
    • NU5 bug fixes
    • “Included builds” for SDK and BIP-39 effectively allows Wallet to build entirely from source

My apologies for the late post here. I took PTO from July 1-8, and have just got caught up with everything. I appreciate everyone’s patience

Cheers,

-Ian