October 17th
Lots of things going on! It’s hard to keep up with every single thing! Another week, another Zcash Z3 update! Let’s go!
Outreach
Status: Resumed 
We completed the Tier 1 and 2 outreach for NU 6.1 and we are awaiting the Acknowledge from exchanges, mining pools and API providers. Price action is definitely helping us get faster responses.
Zebra
Zebra folks released Zebra 3.0.0 release candidate which includes NU 6.1 plus many performance upgrades reducing full blockchain sync to a couple of hours versus a couple of days of Zcashd or a full day from previous Zebra versions.. The ZF team presented those at the last Arborist Call in more detail. This will reduce downtime for node operators and reduce costs as well.
Zaino (ZingoLabs)
- Status: in progress
Chain index refactoring designed by Zallet and Zaino folks is being wrapped up and will undergo review shortly. Block explorer RPC continues (see BE section below)
Zallet full node wallet
- Status: Alpha Released
tracking work on this repository.
Crypto X seems to be going through a $ZEC Fever! and that’s taking a toll on the Zashi team which… is also the Zallet team. After addressing some issues on light client code the Zallet team will resume Zallet work this following week. Progress was made towards RPC authentication support with cookie auth coming soon.
Alpha still continues! For anyone interested in diving into it, The Zallet Book is the go to reference.
Block Explorer Support
- Status: Testing
Tracking: https://github.com/orgs/zingolabs/projects/15
Block explorer support development progresses and we are almost there!
Thanks for reading!