Hello Zcashers,
Happy Friday! Once again, the land of crypto has been full of exciting developments.
Zcash updates
- NU5 security assessments are complete without any critical issues.
- Agoric, an open-source development company and longtime friend of ECC, announced the launch of its interoperable proof-of-stake chain and economy. ECC and Agoric intend to work together to bring shielded Zcash to Agoric smart-contract developers and users.
- Zcash turned 5! Thank you for all the birthday wishes and the continued support.
- We have opened a new role for a Community Manager. Check out details and apply on our careers page.
DevSecOps
- Conducted several interviews for Senior DevSecOps and Senior Security Engineer
- Updated lightwalletd mainnet and testnet instances
- Last phase of Debian Zcash debug binary deployment underway
- Completed initial implementation of multi exporter environment
- Reviewed github access control settings
- Security retros
Core
- Continued work on adding recursion to Halo 2
- Updated SHA-256 and Poseidon gadgets, and created benchmarks for Poseidon
- Continued making progress on converting the Zcashd wallet to derive all new addresses from mnemonic seed
- Made great progress on core Orchard and Unified Address wallet support
- The major lemma for the Halo 2 security proof is done!!
- Merged a good PR from jarys (one of the Trezor developers)
- Audit reports are published! (see this blog post for details)
- Refined and improved the solution to Unified Viewing keys
Wallet
- General project bootstrapping accomplished for devs/repos
- Secant iOS Wallet
- Onboarding & Recovery Phrase flow finishing up
- Scaffolding of navigation and major flows
- Secant Android Wallet
- Onboarding & Recovery Phrase flow catching up
- Implementing design style-guide (as is)
- Scaffolding of navigation and major flows
In the news, India’s top securities regulator issued a warning against dealing in unregulated assets. The upcoming European Union’s Markets in Crypto Assets package of crypto regulations could simplify crypto business possibilities throughout the EU. A record number of crypto enthusiasts descended upon New York’s NFT.NYC conference devoted to all things non-fungible.
Bon week-end!