Zcash Z3 updates (formerly Zcashd Deprecation)

Ecosystem Updates
105

August 29th

Hello! There are a lot of updates this week. Let’s get to it!

Outreach

Status: Resumed :white_check_mark:
We started some interesting conversations with different ecosystem actors about the Network Upgrade Friction survey. We still have a good way to go to get a full picture of the impact of transaction changes in the ecosystem. Once we have more data we will process it and share it with the different teams.

Zebra

Project Roadmap board
Priority board

Zebra infrastructure is being revamped. This will benefit everyone not only Zcashd deprecation. Meanwhile the RPCs keep being completed with the missing information that was once “lower priority” :slightly_smiling_face: and now we have progressed enough that it’s time to get to it.

Zaino (ZingoLabs)

  • Status: in progress

Project Board

Zallet integration has brought up some improvement points that the Zaino team is working on, plus the re-architechting of Zaino is progressing towards completion next week as well as Lightwalletd functionality code completion. Zaino is also undergoing some major changes in the configuration front. It’s important that anyone interested in opens issues on the Zaino repo about it!

In-Memory backend wrap up

- status: Done :white_check_mark:

PR: https://github.com/zcash/librustzcash/pull/1634

We have merged the In-memory backend PR Add `zcash_client_memory` crate. by nuttycom · Pull Request #1923 · zcash/librustzcash · GitHub into Librustzcash :tada:

Thanks @nuttycom @str4d and @daira for all the rebasing, merging, reviewing and patching involved :heart:

Zallet full node wallet

  • Status: in progress

tracking work on this repository.

Important announcement: now it’s the perfect time to hand your documentation feedback to the Zallet team. Act now! Spin up Zallet and leave your feedback in form of github issue. So that we can enhance Zallet’s documentation. In the following week we are very interested to know what are the friction points when setting up a new wallet in Zallet.

In terms of progress, Kris and Str4d keep advancing towards Zallet alpha at full speed. .

Block Explorer Support

  • Status: Testing

No changes from last week here. RPCs are in development on Zaino’s repo and we are progressing on this front.

Pending reviews:

Thanks for reading!

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