Zcash Z3 updates (formerly Zcashd Deprecation)

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August 1st

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We are here! August 1st. Let’s get to our usual updates.

Outreach

Status: resumed
We started informing about Zcashd 6.3.0 and piggybacking on Zcashd deprecation as well. We’ve messaged all “tier 1” contacts and we are proceeding with “tier 2” which are mostly support emails.

Zebra

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Zebra folks have mitigated the 2.4.0 migration issue and they are talking to affected parties and helping them recover from it. RPC test port is progressing (Kudos Alfredo!) which is a super valuable effort and somewhat tedious as well. Please salute our dear @0xArbitrage who’s giving it all to have a good test suite for Zcashd deprecation.

Zaino (ZingoLabs)

  • Status: in progress

Project Board

@Zancas made my job easier today. With two updates: One in Zaino Respecification and Zaino Complete threads. Zaino folks have been working a lot on CI as well.

In-Memory backend wrap up

- status: pending review :warning:

This has been falling through the cracks a bit but we need to pick it up soon since there are other grants depending on this getting merged. We’ll start working on figuring out how we can allocate resources https://github.com/zcash/librustzcash/pull/1634

Zallet full node wallet

  • Status: in progress

tracking work on this repository.

Zcashd 6.3.0 and NU 6.1 testnet support took most of this past week’s time for ECC core developers. Still some progress in CI and Containerization is being made. That’s necessary for Zallet’s alpha. Meanwhile, contributions from Alfredo from ZF have been merged Implement z_listunifiedreceivers

Call for Testers!

This won’t be a public alpha. We are looking for people that can build Zallet from code and run it with their Zebra nodes.

Call for Developers!

If you want to start working on something Zcash related and you don’t know where to start, Zallet is a good way to do it. With many RPC methods already developed that can be good examples for the creation of others, the project is in a good shape to start taking contributions from the broad community. Fork the Zallet repo and start hacking!.

Block Explorer Support

  • Status: Testing

We have decided how to proceed with this in the last collab call [#9427] Fix: possibly change “lockbox” vs “deferred” value pool name and the ball is on my court. On it!

Pending reviews:

Regtest? What is that?

  • Status: stalled

No progress here

Thanks for reading!

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