January 2026
Executive Summary
During January Pacu attended Zeboot 2026 and a hacker house event he was invited to. Worked with ZnewCo devs (Formerly ECC) on Zcashd deprecation items and met new core engineers. Additionally briefed the community with two free2z articles about the summit. . Carried out release and outreach of Zcash 6.11.0 due to 6.10 EOL and curated a list of community collaboration items for Zallet. In terms of development he wrapped out addition of transparent data to Zaino reaching feature parity in terms of the lightclient-protocol API v0.4.0 with lightwalletd following Zaino dev’s feedback and thorough review, and maintained existing projects to respond to bug reports from Zashi devs on the ZIP-321 libraries.. As DevRel he held office hours with RedDev, Routescan and DappsOverApps (which was a no show 
) also followed up with connections from DevConnect who were interested in collaborating within the Zcash ecosystem, followed-up, reviewed existing grants to assist ZCG and participated in community calls.
Extended Report
Zcashd Deprecation
- Outreach to Zcashd users:
- Communicated 6.11.0 EOL release to Zcashd users
- Community Updates
- Development Coordination
- Hosted Zcashd Deprecation collaboration calls
- Supported Zaino folks on internal processes
- Worked w/ Zallet devs to curate a list of “community collaboration needed” github issues.
- Development:
- Wrapped up support for lightclient-protocol v0.4.0 on Zaino (formerly Transparent data support) which is pending review and further discussion.
- Worked with Larry Ruane, Kris and Str4d on the lightclient-protocol canonical files
DevRel
- Attended Hacker House and Z|ECC
- Follow Up with DevConnect and EthCC II connections.
- Followed up with a couple of DevConnect contacts interested in collaborating
- Ad Hoc Ecosystem response
- Responder inquiries from exchanges and other partners on various channels.
- PR Reviews (requested and Ad Hoc)
- Maintain existing projects (update CI Tokens, dependabot, etc)
- Released Zcash Payment URI Swift 1.0.1 to respond to Lukas’ bug report
- Released Zcash Payment URI Kotlin 1.0.2 to respond to reported issues, added CI test and troubleshooting for some automation issues.
- zecdev/zcash-swift-payment-uri#77 (comment)
- Maintained ZecDev Github.io site.
- Follow-up Existing grants
- Followed up and extensively reviewed ZecKit’s Milestone 2 submission zecdev/ZecKit#4
- LCWG:
- Hosted #107 (no quorum) and #108 zcash/lcwg#152
- Arborist Call
- Attended January 8th and 22nd calls and updated on Zcashd deprecation
- Office Hours with Teams
- Met w/ RedDev on weekly sync
- ZecKit dev (no show)
- Routescan