Zcash is Moving to Zebra!

Ecosystem Updates
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What do you mean by “promote”?

Right now, our focus is on building out Zebra’s functionality to:

  1. support the work of ecosystem teams like QEDIT and Equilibrium (who have both indicated that they prefer building on Zebra versus zcashd), and
  2. to make it possible for Zebra to fulfil - either directly or indirectly* - the use cases that people rely on zcashd for today, so that we can eventually sunset zcashd.

In that latter respect, I think there’s full alignment between ECC and ZF…

…so I look forward to greater collaboration, including promoting the use of Zebra to current zcashd users when the time is right.

(﹡ An example of Zebra indirectly supporting a use case would be ensuring that it provides the necessary functionality to support potential replacements for the zcashd full note wallet, like the new cli-wallet that ECC are considering, or the potential Zenith full node wallet project. )

Anecdotally, Zebra is the preferred platform for teams like QEDIT and Equilibrium, and I believe Zebra is the preferred option for running lightwalletd servers. Certainly, if you’re using Ywallet, you’re (indirectly) using Zebra!