Zcash Developer Relations Engineer

Community Grants
54

November 2025

Executive Summary

During November Pacu was focused on three main things: NU 6.1 outreach, follow-up and response, representing ZCG and supporting Zcashers during DevConnect and Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress 2nd edition in Buenos Aires and developing transparent data support for Zaino’s lightclient APIs. NU 6.1 saw an increase of 50% in outreach response compared with NU6, with no major outages and no follow-ups needed on major shielded and transparent wallets.DevConnect and ETH CC II were a major success. Supported the ZK Av club which recorded 16 hours of 4K footage for high quality content at Polkadot Sub0 and DevConnect and a podcast episode. The Web3privacy summit/ETHCC II booth was really popular. We ran out of swag and onboarded many new users to Zashi. On the development side the transparent data feature is currently in-review. Additionally Pacu carried out the rest of the usual tasks like Zcash Z3 outreach, Zallet Alpha follow-up, Ad Hoc ecosystem response, PR Reviews, hosted LCWG and Office hours.

Extended Report

Zcashd Deprecation

  • Outreach to Zcashd users:

    • NU 6.1 follow up and monitoring of upgrade

      • Outreach concluded with no major incidents or outages. Only one party not updating in a timely manner.
      • 25 out of 25 partners responded to the outreach. Last outreach NU performance was 66%. This is a 50% increase year-to-year

    • Zallet Closed Alpha:

      • Supported Binance DevOps testing Z3
      • Supported other two Exchanges testing out Z3

    • Z-on-1’s with strategic allys of ZEC.

      • This was deemed not that prioritary given price action increased response rate of outreach by 50% although we continued to foster new conversations over telegram
  • 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
    • Started discussing/planning deployment of Zaino-lightwalletd replacement in production and development of feature parity.
  • Development:
    • Continue development and deployment of Transparent Data into Light Client Protocol. Develop this feature with Zaino and ECC devs

DevRel:

  • Support Zcashers attending ETH CC II, DevConnect and satellite events:
    • Zcash Booth at ETH CC II Web3Privacy
      • Assisted with logistics, Swag purchase and was present in the booth throughout the whole event.
    • ZkAv Club support at DevConnect and satellite events
      • Attended all the weekdays, supported the Zk AV folks with logistics, hosted interviews, a podcast episode and connected personally with many existing and potential Zcash partners.
  • Ad Hoc Ecosystem response
    • NOWNodes requested me to be panelist on their Builders X Space
    • reached out to Trust wallet trustwallet/wallet-core#4560
    • Atomic wallet reached out to me and we created a telegram group to coordinate and explore collaboration opportunities
    • Concerns about the ZecWallet website still offering downloads of outdated wallets. Danika from FPF contacted me with developer and we are working with ZingoLabs on a transition solution for stuck users.
    • MEXC Exchange contacted Pili wanting to list ZEC (and they did). We created a group on telegram with them to follow up on more things like Z3 adoption.
  • Maintain existing projects (update CI Tokens, dependabot, etc)
  • Follow-up ChainSafe grant backlog
    • We followed up on their changes needed for NU 6.1 weekly (although they could not deliver on time :sigh: for NU 6.1 day due to how ChainSafe prioritized their work despite our constant reminders and aid)
  • Follow-up DappsOverApps Dev Tooling grant progress
    • I followed up with this team weekly and personally over DevConnect. I found some issues that I followed up and discussed internally with ZCG.
  • Follow-up and support Shielded ZEC in Ledger
    • Ledger continues to scope and define technical requirements for their grant and is about to post the proposal in the Zcash forums in the following days.
    • I met their integration lead at DevConnect and we talked about possible paths forward to bring shielded support as early and low technical risk as possible.
  • LCWG:
    • Work on transparent data is coming to conclusion
    • The group is hashing out React Native support led by EDGE, Zingo and other teams.
    • Call notes of LCWG #105 zcash/lcwg#148
  • Arborist Call
    • Nov 13th: could not attend due to commitment with NOWNodes to be panelist on their Builders X Space
  • Office Hours with Teams
    • Weekly Syncs with RedDev (4x 0.5hs)
    • Troubleshoot DKG in GoLang w/ RedDev Developer (1 h)
    • Office hour w/ Anon Zcasher (1 h)
  • PR Reviews:
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