There is a brick fortress where many have made their home. Its denizens abdicate their responsibility for their own physical and psychological well-being to their neighbors, who don’t know them, or have their own interests at heart.
While they decry slavery, the brick-dwellers yield their own souls to the self-appointed rule-makers, enforcers, and managers among them in exchange for pajamas and a little soup.
The brick-dwellers beckon us all inside to escape the harshness of nature. They tell us we have no need for the sun, the stars, the rivers, or the hills. They say those things are too dangerous. You might sunburn or drown out there. Looking out the window is enough.
And because the brick-dwellers are magnanimous, they will often adorn their protective gear and venture out into nature themselves to bring us into cells within the brick walls for the sake of our safety, and better yet, the safety of all others.
The brick-dwellers are not altogether wrong. Living naturally does not come without risk. You might indeed sunburn or drown.
But we are not them.
We do not cling to the ankles of safety. We do not live timidly. We live in power, love, and self-discipline. We prefer the outdoors.
We are opinionated and self-interested. We dream, design, build, use, and iterate. We construct the tools we need to navigate nature. And we cooperate with others who need the same tools, for their own self-interests.
For those on the inside, a window remains adjar, but it won’t always be. It window will close.
Today, you choose.
Think.
Here’s our journey out the window this week:
Zashi
What we did:
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Made significant progress on Zashi 2.4.10 focused on bug fixes of user reported issues, and small UX/UI improvements.
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Set up Linear cycles and started heavily using the GitHub <> Linear integration.
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Made progress on a new iteration of the Duress/Decoy Wallet feature.
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Started planning the January ECC-internal Hacker House.
What’s up next:
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Focus on Zashi 2.4.10
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Iterate on and finalize open designs for the Duress/Decoy Wallet feature and prepare them for review.
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Continue updating engineering processes to create predictable, scalable workflows and improve/streamline cross-functional collaboration between teams.
iOS Analytics
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Unique Installs: 33k (0.8k increase)
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Total Downloads: 38k (0.9k increase)
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AppStore Rating: 4.9* (unchanged)
Android Analytics
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Total Install Base: 16.2k (unchanged)
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Total Installs (incl. Open Beta): 39k (0.6k)
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PlayStore Rating: 4.25* (unchanged)
Swap Volume
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December: $31.5M
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YTD: $347M
Zcash Core
What we did:
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Finished the review of the OrchardZSA PR (orchard#471) except for non-ZSA note commitment circuit changes.
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Added `zcash_client_backend` functionality that will allow us to fix the receiving/shielded state display issue in zcash_client_backend - librustzcash#2064.
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Continued reviewing and updating EIP-681 transaction request parser librustzcash#1917.
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Reworked the community PR to fix `zcash_primitives` coinbase transaction construction librustzcash#1893 resulting in `zcash_protocol-0.7.2`, `zcash_transparent-0.6.2`, and `zcash_primitives-0.26.2` patch releases.
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Made progress on planning for lockbox funds disbursement.
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FIxed incorrect handling of ZIP 321 payment requests with no amount specified (librustzcash#2071)
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Reviewed many Zypherpunks hackathon submissions!
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Made progress on z_shieldcoinbase in Zallet and a pre-requisite librustzcash#821.
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Made substantial progress on designing new transaction (and potentially block) formats for NU7, with a goal of making it possible to reduce the number of breaking changes required to the ecosystem when new capabilities require alterations to the transaction format.
What’s up next:
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Continue work on transparent address rotation - a pre-requisite librustzcash#2036.
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Zcash-devtool: Add functionality to create lockbox disbursement transactions.
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Review PRs for adding P2SH multisig support to Keystone.
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Merge lightwalletd updates to adopt zcash/lightwallet-protocol#11
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Finalize work on the EIP-681 parser.
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Zallet: Release Zallet 0.1.0-alpha-3.
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Zallet: Continue on z_shieldcoinbase in Zallet and a pre-requisite librustzcash#821.
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Zallet Next: focus on Zallet 0.1.0-alpha-4 - https://github.com/zcash/wallet/issues/288.
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Create ZIP drafts for an alternative V6 transaction format that will enable smaller network upgrades & incremental deployment of proposed NU7 features.
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Make it possible to rewind to height with a precise target block height. (a requirement for Resync Wallet feature)
Other:
Peacemonger and I spent the week in the UAE speaking at an event with NEAR and supporting Zcash activities on the ground.
Paul and Tony participated in the annual Blockchain Association DC Policy Summit.
ZCG Elections are underway. If you are on ZCAP, please vote. Ballots should be in your inbox, but be aware, some are hitting spam.
a16z called out privacy as the most important moat in crypto.
That’s all for this week!
Out in the sun,
Onward.