October 2025
Executive Summary
During October Pacu continued ongoing outreach efforts and piled price action attention to start 1-on-1 with BDs of the ecosystem. Updated the community weekly and coordinated the various Zcashd deprecation calls. In terms of development actively contributed to Block Explorer support and leading Lightwalletd deprecation support for Zaino by adding the new features of Lightwalletd based on the data analysis requested by Core developers. In terms of DevRel activity, Pacu actively supported Shieded Support on Ledger, WebZ.js and metamask, ZCG, Zaino and RedDev, LCWG and Arborist Calls. Also reviewed various PRs when developers requested it
Extended Report
Zcashd deprecation
- Outreach to Zcashd users:
- Continued NU Friction Survey
- Zallet Closed alpha follow up
- Reached out to Coinbase, Decred Dex, May, NEAR/Aurora, ViaBTC, Binance and Bitfinex as tier 1 partners for Zallet Alpha and followed up with the ones that responded that they’d participate.
- NU 6.1 Outreach and follow up
- Updated the wide ecosystem of Zcashd node operators to update to newer versions of full nodes and wallets towards November 23rd
- Started Z-on-1’s with strategic allys of ZEC with miners, exchanges and API providers
- Scheduled calls with Fireblocks and waiting for responses from others
- Community Updates
- Development Coordination
- Hosted Zcashd Deprecation collaboration calls
- Coordinated with teams to cope with the impact of higher user demand on Zcashd deprecation and NU7
- Zaino API Workgroup
- Supported Zaino folks on internal processes
- Development
- Block Explorer support [#214] Add Zcash RPC getnetworksolps passthrough RPC method
- Transparent Data into Light Client Protocol metrics
- Zaino Lightwalletd deprecation support Feature/trasparent data grpc
DevRel
- Ad Hoc Ecosystem Response
- Troubleshoot DCRDex regtest issues decred/dcrdex#3375 (comment)
- Attended Arborist Calls
- Office Hours
- RedDec weekly pairings: October 7th, October 14th, October 21st, October 30th
- Anon Zcasher wanting to build payment rail product in LatAm:
- Connected this person with people I know that are in that business domain.
- ZCG Support
- Organize technical Sync Meeting ECC <> Ledger Engineers
- Review and research about react native grant proposal
- Followed up w/ chainsafe towards NU 6.1 and forwarded changes they needed to be up-to-speed with on WebZ.js
- Support Zcash community members coming to Web3Privacy Buenos Aires
- Reach out to Trezor to resume shielded support efforts
- PR Reviews
- LCWG:
- Call #103 zcash/lcwg#144
- Call #104 zcash/lcwg#146