# Zcash Foundation Update (Dec 1st - Dec 14th)

**URL:** <https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/zcash-foundation-update-dec-1st-dec-14th/53867>\
**Category:** Zcash Foundation\
**Created:** [December 16, 2025, 2:16pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/zcash-foundation-update-dec-1st-dec-14th/53867 "2025-12-16T14:16:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![ZcashFoundation](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/zcashfoundation/32/21548_2.png) [@ZcashFoundation](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/ZcashFoundation)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2025, 2:16pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/zcash-foundation-update-dec-1st-dec-14th/53867/1 "2025-12-16T14:16:53Z")

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These past 2 weeks we’ve been wrapping up the things we were currently working on so we could start with Hackmas.

In Zebra news, the observability infrastructure for local development received a major update. A new [observability stack](https://github.com/ZcashFoundation/zebra/issues/10161) was added that includes Grafana with auto-provisioned dashboards, Prometheus configured with production-appropriate scrape intervals, and AlertManager for handling alerts. This setup includes pre-built dashboards for monitoring various aspects of Zebra nodes (block verification, network health, mempool, peers, and more) along with alerting rules for critical issues like when a node becomes unreachable, sync gets stuck, or peer count drops too low. On the RPC compatibility front, the [`getinfo` response was fixed](https://github.com/ZcashFoundation/zebra/issues/9663) to use the correct field type for timestamps.

We [refactored](https://github.com/ZcashFoundation/zebra/pull/10185) the old code for handling block subsidies, [added](https://github.com/ZcashFoundation/zebra/pull/10188) addresses for founders’ rewards, added [support for pre-Canopy block subsidies](https://github.com/ZcashFoundation/zebra/pull/10191) in the getblocksubsidy RPC, and added [support for Sapling note commitment trees](https://github.com/ZcashFoundation/zebra/pull/10176) in the getblocktemplate RPC. This work also unlocks mining pre-Canopy blocks in Zebra, which increases parity with zcashd on Regtest and in the Python test bank. We also finished the work on adding [support for constructing coinbase transactions](https://github.com/zcash/librustzcash/pull/1893) in librustzcash. This work, together with the [implementation of ZIP-213](https://github.com/ZcashFoundation/zebra/pull/10048), unlocks mining blocks with shielded coinbase transactions.

For FROST, we removed the [cheater-detection feature](https://github.com/ZcashFoundation/frost/issues/955) as this code is no longer needed as this functionality is now part of `aggregate_custom()`. This is part of our work towards a v3.0.0 release that we’re expecting to complete in the new year.

A thank you to the contributions to Zebra from [@syszery](https://github.com/syszery). They submitted a [cleanup to remove an unused parameter](https://github.com/ZcashFoundation/zebra/pull/10187) from the network code and a [refactor to improve error handling](https://github.com/ZcashFoundation/zebra/issues/8432) in the parameters builder. Also, for the initial work on [ping RPC and latency metrics](https://github.com/ZcashFoundation/zebra/pull/9880) to the `getpeerinfo` response, which will help users monitor network peer health.

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**Author:** ![Rhea-Finance](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/rhea-finance/32/40845_2.png) [@Rhea-Finance](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/Rhea-Finance)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2025, 5:02am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/zcash-foundation-update-dec-1st-dec-14th/53867/2 "2025-12-17T05:02:57Z")

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Bullish on the foundation update