Zcash Block Explorer Grant

Hey @Shawn, Thanks for following up.

We did run in to delays initially with April start due to the pandemic situation in India affecting the health of family members and regular life. But the work is in good progress towards the targeted July/August delivery.

The zcashex(elixir client library to interact with the JSON-RPC endpoint provided by a Zcash full node) was open sourced on GitHub and will be soon published on the hex.pm elixir central repository.

See the Tailwind UI front end screenshots attached below. The blockchain metrics - latest height, price, size, etc. are all realtime feeds using web sockets and the user does not need to refresh the page. We’re also thinking of adding support for dark theme.

We are in the process of hosting the explorer internally for testing purposes, the final front end will be exposed to both https & tor networks while zcashd will connect to the Zcash network via tor directly.

Expect an update after we have some of the primary feature work operational.

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