Official Shielded Support for Zcash In Ledger HW Wallet

Hi sorry for the slow reply. Zingo-Mobile currently supports 317 and 320.

I’ll be saying more this week.

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Me too. Unfortunately it has been more cumbersome than it should have.

I hate to be the “I said so” dude but ZecWallet was already an un maintained code base back in November 2023, but still VERY similar to Zingo at the time.

Now Zingo has changed quite a lot (for good), it fixed tremendous bugs that ZecWallet has (but don’t affect ledger since those were related to the in memory key storage) and porting it is not quite an option. I’m working with both Zingo and Zondax teams to get ledger support out from ZecWallet so we can put that app to sleep and give proper burial by applying the Wallet End of Life Draft ZIP

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I also can’t see it under the “discover” page. Is this because the app is not for the ‘old’ Ledger Nano?

Dear Zcash community, we want to announce that Ledger has finally officially released the new Zcash Shielded Ledger App developed by zondax.

This new application can be found in Ledger Live under the name “zcash shielded”

The new app is currently supported by the following devices:

  • Nano S
  • Nano S Plus
  • Flex
  • Stax

even though it says Ledger Nano s, I don’t see it either

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Do we know what kind of data Ledger Live is pulling from the Shielded Wallet App?

Any Privacy concerns?

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Ledger PLEASE FIX:

An exception occurred during transaction send: 16: bad-tx-consensus-branch-id-mismatch

Funds are stuck and not transferable from Ledger Live

A screenshot from user @Autotunafish in the other Ledger topic shows that the Shielded app is 147 kb.
The Nano S only has 138 kb storage size. So that’s why the app is not available for the Nano S even though @ainhoa-zondax said so.

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Hello everyone,

Zcash Shielded App Update: Deployment of Version 4.2.3

We are pleased to share important updates regarding the Zcash Shielded App:

  • Version 4.2.3 Deployment & NU6 Compatibility:
    The Zcash Shielded App (version 4.2.3) is scheduled for deployment on Ledger’s testing provider today. Its official release is expected to follow immediately, provided that the app performs as intended and successfully passes all quality assurance checks. This latest release also ensures continued compatibility to fully support the NU6 upgrade, maintaining seamless functionality and user experience.

  • Nano S Update:
    In addition, the Zcash app for Ledger Nano S is also planned for deployment and release within today, as confirmed by Ledger.

We’re thrilled to bring you these positive updates and will keep you informed about any further developments. Thank you for your continued trust and support!

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Will it come with Stax support?

Could you confirm whether nano s is supported or not? we had conflicting reports from your team.
Thanks

The new zcash shielded application is already compatible with NanoS devices.

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Stax is already supported

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The new application is compatible with NanoS devices.

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So to be clear we are possibly days away from shielded wallet support on Stax!?

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The new zcash shielded Ledger application is already compatible with the new stax/flex devices and available publicly for everyone.

You can read more about it here Unlocking Privacy: The New Zca...

Currently, this app communicates exclusively with the Zecwallet Lite Desktop Wallet. You can find more about this wallet here: GitHub - Zondax/zecwallet-lite: Zecwallet-Lite is z-Addr first lightwallet for Zcash.

To encourage broader adoption, we’ve published a comprehensive integration guide to help developers integrate this app with other wallets like Zashi, Zingo, and YWallet. Check out the guide here Zcash integration Guide

We provide 2 different types of integration packages to facilitate the integration:

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I’m all about Ledgers. Thank you and your team for working on this.

I am really concerned from a UX standpoint that we are encouraging anyone to use Zecwallet Lite, however - even a fork.

Other recent builds of Zecwallet Lite have warnings in them saying “do not use this, it’s not maintained.”

Can we add that warning to these new Zondax builds of Zecwallet Lite, or should Zecwallet Lite be considered safe to use for new Ledger users?

It’s unfortunate but I’m of the opinion that until an actively-maintained wallet implements this Ledger functionality, nobody should use it while it depends on Zecwallet Lite.

Alternately is Zondax committed to maintaining Zecwallet Lite for a period of time to ensure that we have a pathway to Ledger use? (I’d be supportive of a grant covering this pathway until an “official” Zcash wallet supports your Ledger functionality)

I’m extremely supportive of us having multiple hardware wallets around that support shielded Zcash, the Zecwallet part is all that raises my eyebrows. Thanks again for your team’s work on this.

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This SO COOL!!! THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR HARD WORK GUYS…wen Zashi tho!!? :frowning:

For this to happen we will need that a UFVK can be constructed from the ledger device, which it doesn’t seem to be the case at the moment :melting_face: both Zingo and Zashi require so.

There is a PR here feat: add support to unified address (zip 316) by emmanuelm41 · Pull Request #128 · Zondax/ledger-zcash · GitHub but this will have to go through ledger release process again

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Why not fork Zingo instead of a deprecated wallet? That’s what confuses me but I wasn’t paying much attention here when this was all decided. Ultimately it’s a good step forward just a strange choice of wallet.

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