The Shot. Update from ZODL

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In the cool of a misty morning, just before dawn, a single shot was heard across the green of Lexington, Massachusetts. With just the pull of a finger against the steel of a musket trigger, America’s Revolutionary War had begun.

This last week marked the 251st anniversary of that day. Of course, it is reductive to say that a single finger on a musket on a spring morning was the beginning, but it was the first battle between the militia of the colonies and the British forces.

Over the years, the colonists had grown increasingly wary of government overreach and trampling of their rights. The British government was seizing personal property, denying self-governance, invading privacy, and denying due process.

And so the colonists began storing munitions for the eventual battles to come. The British forces got wind that these were kept in Lexington and Concord. And so they ordered 700 soldiers, armed with muskets and bayonets, to march to these two towns and seize the tools of their resistance.

In Lexington, 77 militia were waiting for the Red Coats’ advanced guard of 250. The colonial militia had guns but no bayonets or the firepower of their oppressors. By the end of the day, the British were in retreat. But it took eight and a half years for independence to be finally won.

Today, to safeguard our rights against overreach and abuse, we are using math and code to prevent theft, ensure self-sovereignty, and protect our privacy. This is math and code, once considered by the US government to be munitions.

If humanity is to live freely, the rights to use these tools must be protected at all costs.

Zodl (formerly Zashi)

  • Finalized implementation of all remaining Keystone follow-up work (Connect Keystone, Wallet Birthday Height, and Resync Wallet), shipping in Zodl 3.4.0. Connect-flow polish closed across iOS and Android, and Resync Wallet is now in review on both platforms with paired fixes for the “all transactions show as failed” behavior and the post-resync connectivity error.

  • Shipped an urgent swap crash fix (app crashed when two swap assets shared the same ID) plus a companion de-duplication fix for Swap/Pay asset lists. Fixed the long-standing fractional-ZEC truncation bug for comma-decimal locales.

  • Zodl 3.3.1 (Android) moving through GitHub, Solana, and F-Droid release plumbing.

  • Finalized designs for Maya integration, Ledger integration, and UIVK/UFVK export; progress on the Time to Spendability design.

Looking ahead:

  • Focus on testing and releasing Zodl 3.4.0.

  • Begin Coinholder Polling implementation.

  • Plan performance improvements for sync, spendability, and server reliability.

  • Continue product and design work on future features and integrations: Multi-recipient payment, Time to Spendability, and Multi-Account support.

Zodl iOS Analytics

  • Unique Installs: 40.4k (+0.4k)

  • Total Downloads: 47.7k (+0.4k)

  • App Store Rating: 4.9★ (no change)

Zodl Android Analytics

  • Install Base: 15.4k (no change)

  • Total Installs (incl. Open Beta): 48.4k (+0.4k)

  • Play Store Rating: 4.26★ (+0.04)

Zcash Core (includes R&D)

  • Security Incident Response: investigation and response completed this week. Public write-up posted on the Zodl.com blog.

  • Delivered a fix and UX improvement for the Rewind method.

  • Resolved the core2 dependency breakage by implementing corez, unblocking Core builds.

  • Advanced zcashd to Zallet wallet migration: BerkeleyDB vendoring landed, and a cluster of zcashd migration issues is being worked, including transparent watch-only addresses, imported private keys, imported P2PKH and P2SH addresses, and Sapling view-keys. Critical SDK fix for stabilized notes being spendable after truncation is now in review.

  • Fixed and updated EIP-681 API PRs.

  • Collaborated with Dev’s team on performance improvement plans and NU7 scope.

Looking ahead:

  • Continued focus on Zallet alpha.4 release scope to deliver alpha.4 as soon as possible.

  • In-flight prerequisites to switch over to the Zaino ChainIndex data flow and full-block scanning in Zallet.

Other

  • We’re hiring. Open roles posted at jobs.ashbyhq.com/zodl, including Core Engineer, Product R&D, Marketing Assistant, and QA Lead.

  • Policy & Regulatory: Continued work across the People, Product, and Protocol protection pillars. Expanded engagement with U.S. and EU regulatory counsel to strengthen ZODL’s forward-looking regulatory positioning and risk assessment.

  • Reducing block times to 25s does not degrade sync performance.

  • Zcash network hash rate hit a new all-time high at roughly 16.54 GS/s, reflecting continued miner commitment alongside the Foundry pool expansion.

  • Foundry institutional ZEC mining pool: now commands roughly 30 percent of network hashrate; Foundry also launched zcashinfo.com, a real-time network and mining block explorer.

Building the tools of freedom,

Onward.

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