January 2025
Hello! Here’s my update for the month that’s about to end. It was shaky, with lots of coming and going, progressing, regressing and adjusting course for making progress again.
I want to thank all the involved teams for their continuous support and collaborative efforts.
Onwards!
Executive Summary
During January I resumed the outreach efforts that had been very disrupted by the holiday season. Some contacts were carried to the finish line and we got more information into the RPC spreadsheet that all the devs are consulting. Additionally, we adjusted timelines and priorities according to development estimation slippage communicated by ECC and Zingo in Zallet and Zaino respectively. I attended Z|ECC summit and presented a proposal to enhance developer experience across the ecosystem that will be disclosed soon to the wider public. I also was part of the “hacker house” in Puerto Morelos where ECC engineers stayed for a few days to hack together and we envisioned a new approach for “Darksidewalletd 2.0” with @nuttycom. We also went over some old code of the ECC SDKs that needs some refactoring along with @daira. I met with RedBridge to go over all the projects and features that are in flight in the Zcash Ecosystem and the dependencies that Redbridge has on these in-development components.
Extended Report
- Zcashd Deprecation
- Zcash Decrecation Update Jan 3rd
- Zcash Decrecation Update Jan 10th
- Zcash Decrecation Update Jan 17th
- Zcash Decrecation Update Jan 24th
- Zcash Decrecation Update Jan 31st
- Development Coordination
- Adjusted to delay announcements from ECC on Zallet development.
- Actively contributed to Zingo’s Zaino project management and forecasting due to a slippage on their grant milestone 2.
- Development:
- Get Ledger Hardware wallet support to the finish line and Get it done. (According to the latest meeting between ZCG, ECC, Zondax and Zingo):
Create a RustLang Mapping between a PCZT (partially constructed Zcash Transaction) and what Zondax’s ledger app receives to sign a transaction.Continue to engage with Zondax so they can work on requirements that would make it possible to have a smoother integration with Ledger- Create a PoC of Zondax’s Zcash Application for ledger that can produce key materials compatible with zcash-dev-tool (deprioritized to take care of Zaino debugging and other tasks that are more important)
- Debugging of Zaino Issue #145 (which ended up being a Zebrad Issue.
- Maintain Existing projects
Address any findings from Least Authority’s Audit on ZIP-321 Payment URI libraries for Kotlin and Swift.Audit not started
- Get Ledger Hardware wallet support to the finish line and Get it done. (According to the latest meeting between ZCG, ECC, Zondax and Zingo):
- DevRel:
- Fixed Tasks
- PR Reviews
- Zainod tests using new infrastructure crate
- Zaino LWD support
- zallet RPC work zcash/wallet#14 (review)
- Zaino LWD Support part 2 zingolabs/zaino#115
- Zebra Regtest fixes
- Arborist Call
- LCWG
- PR Reviews