Shawn
February 13, 2024, 4:44pm
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For reference, the other project (Zephyr) that ZCG funded before for similar functionality ran into some pretty big challenges that they were never able to overcome:
Zephyr reactivation - we need YOUR help
For over a year we’ve been working on creating a web-wallet (MetaMask style) for Zcash. Along our journey we made good progress with porting Sapling code to WASM, running it in browser and Node, using gRPC over HTTPS, running in browser-extension sandbox to name a few.
However, our progress was slowed down as we encountered some more complicated parts of the protocol (namely NU5 Orchard upgrade). Additional impedance was caused by the…
Zephyr report March’22
In the last few months (Dec’21, Jan, Feb) our team had been working on adopting wallet core of Aditya’с fantastic Zecwallet Lite for usage with the Zephyr wallet. This task turned out to be very different from the work that we have done for the earlier milestone in 2021. This time we had to shift our focus from high-level tasks like:
produce UI designs and high-fidelity wireframes for the Zephyr wallet
create PoC that a Zcash wallet can live within the sandbox of Chrom…
Hopefully this project and ZCG can take lessons learned from other projects so they don’t run into the same issues.
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