Zcash Z3 updates (formerly Zcashd Deprecation)

October 24th

Price goes up, price goes down, price goes up. Shielded pools are only growing. We keep building as we’ve always done

Outreach

Status: Resumed :white_check_mark:

We continue with the NU 6.1 outreach and nudging people on Zallet Alpha.

Zebra

The Zebra team released 3.0.0 and continue to work on outstanding items on Zcashd deprecation like Orchard shielded coinbase. Also reviewing a lot of work on NU7 and looking into collaboration opportunities with the rest of the Z3 teams.

Zaino (ZingoLabs)

  • Status: in progress

Project Board

Zingo is working on wrapping up the Chain index work and adopting Zebra 3.0.0. Oscar Pepper author of Pepper sync is joining the Zaino team to work on chain index as well while Dorian, Nacho and myself are working or reviewing Block Explorer RPC development.

Zallet full node wallet

  • Status: Alpha Released :white_check_mark:

tracking work on this repository.

The ECC team had been busy responding to bug fixes on Zashi and NU7 PR reviews on the Orchard crate. Although progress on Zallet did continue with Cookie authentication. ZF folks will review and bring their expertise from implementing it on Zebra.

Alpha still continues and we are looking for people who have Zcash.dat files on testnet and are willing to test the migration path on Zallet. 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

There are three RPC left to go

Done but In review

We are in good shape to start working on integrating Zebra + Zaino into the Zcash Block Explorer. @cacho did a hack adaptation that used Zebra only at the expense of performance and a lot more RPC requests.

Thanks for reading!

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