September 2025
Hello! Although I took some days off, a lot of things were done! As always, thanks ZCG, FPF, ECC, ZF, Zingo and the widespread community for your support.
Executive Summary
During September Pacu wrapped up the previous outreach and started the Zallet Alpha, while followed up on the NU Friction and started to contact orgs for 1-on-1 with their business developers with the idea of fostering closer relationships that make these efforts more effective in the future. Update the community on Z3 stack development process and and held the various coordination calls with the help of colleagues given he took some days off. Contributed to Zaino (PR in review) and will continue to do so with the idea of learning more about Zaino development experience and contributing to fill any gaps. On the DevRel side there focus was on PR reviews and maintaining existing projects, specifically responding to September 14th huge supply chain attack that targeted javascript utils. In accordance, I’d like to thank @mrkit2u who pinged me with early news about this before this matter exploded in the vast Tech Twitter and other communities.
Extended Report
Zcashd Deprecation
- Outreach
- Followed up with NU Friction Survey for transaction parser RFP
- Started Zallet Alpha outreach. Six orgs contacted 3 accepted to participate, we are awaiting responses for the other 3
- Started to contact people on different organizations that the ecosystem could benefit from a closer relationship with to schedule 1-on-1s with them as alternative to the message outreach which is more impersonal.
- Community Updates
- Coordination:
- Supported Zingo Labs in some internal processes regarding Zaino
- Thank you @nsheep for covering for me on Zcashd deprecation collaboration calls while I was away.
- Zaino API workgroup calls were first and last week of the month
- Zallet Testing party:
- We organized this but there were some issues that complicated the event.
- Anyway I took it for a spin on a clean dev environment and reported issues zcash/wallet#221 (comment) and zcash/wallet#243 and both were resolved/
- Development:
- Grabbed the most minimum piece of work I could find from the backlog to get hands-on with Zaino, learn and document any gaps for new contributors
DevRel
- Ad Hoc Ecosystem response:
- Worked with ZCG and Chainsafe on a backlog for their maintenance grant
- Arborist Calls:
- I attended the first one of this month and watched the one that happened while I was away.
- Maintain Existing Projects:
- Updated ZecDev dashboard and its dependencies which had security issues according to dependabot
- Update Frost UniFFI SDK dependencies to support RedDev team
- Maintained orchard fork and PR zcash/orchard#432
- Respond to huge Javascript Supply attack chain and verify we were not affected
- Office Hours:
- RedDev:
- September 2nd: Met w/ Reddev and Least Authority on ZavaX Oracle Threat model
- September 23rd: weekly sync + FROST docs walkthrough for PoC
- September 30th: Weekly sync + reviewed their FROST PoC and did some troubleshooting and next steps forward
- meeting w/Anon Zcasher about feasibility of a project
- RedDev:
- PR Reviews: