Is anyone from ECC or the Foundation actively collaborating with Namada to make this happen? With other privacy-focused projects potentially launching soon, it would be beneficial to have something in place in case they decide to reward the Zcash community.
For instance, Aztec recently launched the Aztec Foundation.
Latest update on the Namada airdrop is here;
Still needs work but if it can be done for NAM it can be done for other chains as well.
Aye, you can find the latest updates on our work in that thread. Just as a note, we have specifically designed the latest protocol proposal (also in that thread) to be easily reusable for other chains beyond Namada.
Thanks! have you received feedback from ECC folks since your last post from January 1st?
We have not (but I’m sure that they’re very busy, and it’s at least a moderately complex protocol to review). Do you know if there are other cryptographers within the Zcash community who might also be interested in offering feedback? I think we might want to wait for the ECC regardless, since many of our revisions and alterations to the original proposal were in response to their first round of (really excellent) feedback, but feedback from others could be helpful as well.
Perhaps it’s a good topic to raise with other projects who might be interested in doing shielded airdrops, since I expect that the mechanisms required would often look similar (at least for any Zerocash-style commitment/nullifier privacy schemes, a broad category which includes Aleo, Anoma, Aztec, Penumbra, Namada, etc. etc.).