This November, the Nighthawk team monitored increased usage of lightwalletd services and set plans to provision additional hardware and bandwidth to meet the increase in demand. We reported our plans and estimates to accommodate ZIP-317 fee mechanism changes on the Wallet Dev call.
ZcashBlockExplorer.com received updates to handle additional transaction types. Shout out to @BostonZcash to report the issue!
Nighthawk Wallet updates:
- Keep up with changes upcoming in the light client SDKs for Android and iOS.
- Start searching for native app developers to work on Nighthawk Wallet 2.0 in 2023
- App Changelog is published at https://nighthawkwallet.com/changelog/
Light Client Working Group:
- Attend bi-weekly LCWG calls to discuss upcoming mobile SDK changes and plans following NU5.
- Merge the Wallet Dev call with the LCWG call for all wallet devs to share progress and blockers.
- LCWG meeting briefs are available at GitHub GitHub - zcash/lcwg: Light Client Working Group project management repository
Goal: Keep up-to-date versions for zcashd & lightwalletd to continue providing high availability public infrastructure for light-wallet based Zcash applications.
- lightwalletd servers saw an increase in bandwidth demands from 15Mbit/s to 35Mbit/s in November.
- Maintain 100% uptime via load-balanced main-net and single instance test-net services
- Continue maintaining the monthly warranty canary on https://lightwalletd.com
Goal: Provide a fast, lightweight, Tor-enabled, no-tracker/no-analytics/no-logging Zcash transaction explorer.
- Added support to handle previously unknown transaction types: fix node warning for watcher · nighthawk-apps/zcash-explorer@64d4a1d · GitHub
(On Hold) Zcash <> Thorchain Integration
Goal: Add Zcash to Thorchain to enable decentralized ZEC trading and LP incentives.
The Zcash implementation is currently on hold following upcoming conventional transaction fee-related changes and optimizations for zcashd core node software. We have kept the DevOps portion of the PR updated to keep up with changes from the Thorchain repository. As for the Zcash-specific Thorchain work, the following items are pending:
a) Work on bridging ancillary Python code for integration tests.
b) Executing smoke test suite on updated test-net infra with zcashd v5.3.0+ (last 2 tests remain)
c) Finish xchain.js wallet APIs for Zcash to support upcoming changes in conventional fee structure.