Zapa Labs Solves PoS transition for Zcash?

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Hi Zodlers,

So I was lucky to read on twitter that someone created, to the best of my knowledge, PoS version of Zcash… is this true? I know that @zooko has reached out to him through twitter.

Repo: GitHub - zapalabs/zapa

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To answer your question, I don’t think so.

The project developer also announced the project on Discord. It’s a Zcash fork on Avalanche, currently still in development. I’m not sure how does it work as I’m not familiar with the Avalanche ecosystem. Hopefully something cool turns out from it.

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It’s great to see someone experiment with Zcash node & tech running as a subnet under Avalanche. ZAPA validators also need to become an Avalanche validator on main-net which requires locking in 2000 AVAX ~$120,000.

I’m excited about this experiment and look forward to how much value can be locked inside a private shielded network running under a public network & avalanche consensus mechanism. ZAPA is a huge improvement over pass-through privacy tech like Sherpa Cash. https://sherpa.cash/

Zcash on the other hand is moving ahead to trustless pools & building Shielded Assets, and ZEC integrations with the crypto ecosystem continue to grow every day.

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Interesting stuff

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so it this still happening? dev posted on twitter, zooko asked him to dm him and then complete silence. why no updates?

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I talked to him one or two times and generally just encouraged him to do it. I vaguely recall that the only feedback I offered him was that the project should give the ZEC unit a special place — not just equal with any other token. I believe that for the project to support ZEC would have required a bridge to Zcash. I vaguely recall thinking that since there wasn’t a trust-minimized bridge, this was a potential blocker. He seemed smart and sincere to me. I think I followed up at some point a while later, just in text messages, and he told me that he’d moved on from the project.

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Maybe he’d like to come back and restart it now that Kit Sturgeon’s “Red Dev” team is implementing a bridge thanks to funding from ZCG. :smiling_face:

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