August 2025
I can’t believe it’s milestone 12 already. It’s been a pretty intense year and it’s always the merit of the ATH in collaboration that keeps going on and on! I want to express my deep gratitude to @ZCG and the broad Zcash community for honoring me with this role.
Executive Summary
Over the course of August, Pacu focused on Zcashd 6.3.0 release outreach reaching out 33 organizations with a response rate of 66% and initiated a Zcash Network Upgrade Friction survey per suggestion of Kris Nuttycom to gather input for an RPF that ZCG is evaluating to draft for NU7 support. Delivered weekly community updates on the status of Zcashd deprecation. Coordinated meetings and working sessions. On the development front, contributed to fix a bug in a Zebra chain info RPC, worked with ECC devs to merge the in- memory implementation that chainsafe contributed as part of WebZ.js and co-authored the “send max” feature with Kris Nuttycom. As of DevRel duties, held office hours with YK Labs, Zingo and RedDev, reviewed several PR by request and Ad Hoc, steered LCWG calls and supported various teams in an on-demand fashion.
Extended Report
Dev - Rel August 2025
Zcashd Deprecation
- Outreach to Zcashd users:
- Wrapped up Zcash 6.3.0 roll out.
- Total orgs reached: 33
- Total orgs that responded: 22
- Zcash Network Upgrade Survey: a campaign to find out how problematic are NU’s that involve transaction format changes in comparison to those that don’t
- Sent the survey to all tier-1 contacts
- Started to get results
- Wrapped up Zcash 6.3.0 roll out.
- Community updates:
- Coordination:
- Continue to host Zaino API workgroup and Zcashd deprecation collaboration calls
- Hosted 2nd LCWG Light Client protocol steering call
- Resulted in a canonical protocol repository and definitions for inclusion transparent data in the Light client protocol
- Ecosystem Roadmap tracking:
- Developed a high-level ecosystem roadmap that needs to be discussed with all the involved teams before it can be made public.
- Development
- Wrap up refactor on Zebra GetBlockchainInfo RPC:
- Wrap-up any changes requested on the “send max” feature
- Work with ECC to merge In-memory zcash_client_backend to librustzcash main for Ledger and ChainSafe Snap continuation work
- Worked with Kris, Str4d and Daira-Emma to merge this PR
- We followed up with ChainSafe on items that need to be taken care of on their side.
DevRel
- Ad Hoc ecosystem response:
- Connected Unstoppable and Maya team for their wallet integration and support of Zcash Swaps on Maya through the Unstoppable wallet.
- Response to CoinMarketCap circulating supply API being down.
- Arborist Calls: Attended and delivered updates on both calls of this month
- Office Hours:
- Met with YK labs. Monday 11th about possible contributions and collaboration within the ecosystem. Followed up with them but they haven’t reached back
- Tuesday 19th: Met with Red Dev and we went over requirements on FROST, Orchard and PCZTs and figured their possible paths forward depending on how the ecosystem manages to deliver the developer experience on those three pieces of the Zcash stack.
- ZingoLabs: grant review, planning, attended several standups and groomed backlog with the Zaino team.
- LCWG:
- Call 101 notes: zcash/lcwg#139
- Call 102 notes: zcash/lcwg#141
- PR Reviews
- Participated on Crosslink workshop running a crosslink node
- Support Active grants:
- Helped Metamask devs on Shielding feature
- Supported Ledger on their retroactive grant presentation.