Zcash Z3 updates (formerly Zcashd Deprecation)

Ecosystem Updates
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September 26th

Another week, another Z3 development update. Heads up! We have created #z3 and #zaino channels in our Zcash R&D discord. Also important news for Zcashd RPC users from the Zebra team below.

Let’s go with the updates.

Outreach

Status: Resumed :white_check_mark:

We are still collecting responses for the NU friction survey and the past surveys. As for the Zallet alpha outreach, we have started contacting a handful of teams that we consider we have the closest relationship with which is important for this alpha phase where we expect things will break and teams will likely need to spend time reporting these issues and testing subsequent versions of the alpha releases.

Zebra

Attention those who are tightly coupled to Zcashd RPC error codes. ZF has decided to update the error codes in Zebra as needed and will close this story. Please open a github issue if you have a specific requirement.

Zebra folks continue to improve CI, tooling, APIs and reviewing numerous external contributions from ECC, Zingo and some Anons as well!

Zaino (ZingoLabs)

  • Status: in progress

Project Board

Zingoistas continue working on the Zaino The release and Zaino Continuation grants. These efforts were only interrupted by me because I wanted to make a small contribution and found that my setup had problems. I want to thanks @ala-mode from Zingo and @dismad from ZecHub for their help in reconciling my Zebra and Zaino horses that were not talking to each other anymore.

Although annoying or disruptive, these issues help us improve our tooling documentation which we will do next week when I clean all the troubleshooting and turn it into useful docs. As @zancas summarized in a conversation we had. “New levels of teamwork! Collaboration’s that will blossom into amazing things in future.”

Zallet full node wallet

  • Status: Alpha Released :white_check_mark:

tracking work on this repository.

ECC folks are heads down on code needed for NU 6.1. While they are at it, as I mentioned in the outreach section, I’ll be starting the conversations with the different teams out in the ecosystem so they start trying the Zallet Alpha.

For anyone interested in diving into it, The Zallet Book is the go to reference.

Block Explorer Support

  • Status: Testing

I started contributing a bit to this by implementing passthrough RPCs which are the low hanging fruit out there with support of Zingo devs when needed.

Thanks for reading!

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