Zcash Z3 updates (formerly Zcashd Deprecation)

Ecosystem Updates
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September 5th

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

Outreach

Status: Resumed :white_check_mark:
We are still collecting responses for the NU friction survey. We’ll post results as soon as we have concluding answers. Zallet Alpha is paused until the Z3 dev teams give a green light for it to start.

Zebra

Project Roadmap board
Priority board

Zebra is going through continuous optimizations. Redundant code is being deleted thanks to further integration to librustzcash’s crates. Configuration is being overhauled as well as CI infrastructure. ZF folks are wrapping up Zebra work on their plate and prepare to have room on their backlog to contribute to Zallet or Zaino if needed.

ATH in collaboration continues!

Zaino (ZingoLabs)

  • Status: in progress

Project Board

Zaino is getting integrated into Zallet and we are seeing the expected issues of systems integration. We triage the problems as they come and Zaino folks are working with Zallet folks to fix those problems.

In-Memory backend wrap up

- status: Completed! :white_check_mark:

@nuttycom and myself completed this and we have left TODO items for ChainSafe to work on. Their maintenance grant is just starting so @gguy and I are making sure that they have a full backlog with these pending items for NU 6.1, bugs reported by users and the homework Kris and Str4d have left in the zcash_memory_crate when it merged. This no longer will be part of this update. Another checkbox checked. Kudos!

Zallet full node wallet

  • Status: in progress

tracking work on this repository.

Zallet is integrating Zaino and preparing for the Closed Alpha Phase. Things aren’t a bed of roses but nothing that wasn’t unexpected when it comes to integrating two systems that are in active development. Next Thursday Z3 devs will do an interactive testing session among themselves to document any issues in the “new wallet” workflow

Block Explorer Support

  • Status: Testing

Zingo folks continue to work on RPC support. Given that integration issues take precedence over this work it’s going a bit slower than expected

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Thanks for reading!

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