October 3rd
All eyes on Zcash!
Price up or down, we keep building.
Another week, another Z3 development update!
Let’s go with the updates.
Outreach
Status: Resumed 
With Token 2049 taking the center of the stage, outreach efforts were highly impacted. On the bright side, this momentum will surely help boost our reach. Congratulations to all Zcashers spreading the word across the world. Next week we will start the NU 6.1 deployment outreach as soon as we have the Zebrad and Zcashd releases out.
Zebra
Zebra folks have published an exhaustive report of their recent work. If you haven’t read it yet, you will find it here. Zebra engineers have worked on the NU 6.1 update and wrapping up a new Zebra version for the occasion. A lot of CI improvements have landed along with RPC testing framework advancements and RPC method refinements that bring us closer to our goal.
Zaino (ZingoLabs)
- Status: in progress
Zaino folks are working on chain_index enhancements so that Zaino can keep track of the different non-finalized chains. Also configuration enhancements and clean up are making the project more convenient and ergonomic to work with. Block explorer RPCs are being worked in parallel as well.
Zallet full node wallet
- Status: Alpha Released
tracking work on this repository.
ECC folks are wrapping up NU 6.1 preparation work with the respective Zcashd and Librustzcash crates releases and getting back to focus on Zallet code. Meanwhile Yasser is working on packaging software with docker images, debian packages, etc.
Zallet Alpha continues! For anyone interested in diving into it, The Zallet Book is the go to reference.
Block Explorer Support
- Status: Testing
Several devs are working on Block Explorer supports RPCs for Zaino.
Thanks for reading!