Zcash Z3 updates (formerly Zcashd Deprecation)

Ecosystem Updates
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November 14th

Hello from ZkAV Club’s recording station at sub0 polkadot conference in Buenos Aires. It’s awesome to receive fellow Zcashers here. We are heading into a major privacy event on Sunday and an incredible week at DevConnect. Meanwhile, another week, another Zcash Z3 update.

PH: @zerodartz

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Outreach

Status: In progress :white_check_mark:

All campaigns start to intertwine, but that’s fine. NU 6.1 Full node operator outreach is going fine and 6.3.0 EOL passed without us hearing much fuzz about it which tends to be a good sign. We are doubling down on wallet operators, specially transparent ones so they modify the custom Bitcoin libraries they use for transparent ZEC before November 23rd. Zallet Alpha is getting more attention and we continue to get feedback on it as well as the Z3 containerized stack ZF is maintaining.

Zebra

ZF engineers are preparing Zebra 3.0.0’s official release and also supporting the Zallet Alpha outreach when it comes to questions about the Z3 containerized stack.

Zaino (ZingoLabs)

  • Status: in progress

Project Board

Zingo folks continue wrapping up the chain index work, block explorer support and fighting against some testing tooling issues. Zaino is also getting updated to work with Zebra 3. On a separate line of work, I keep helping out with the transparent data for light clients implementation between constant pings from the outreach campaigns.

Zallet full node wallet

  • Status: Alpha Released :white_check_mark:

tracking work on this repository.

Last week I talked to you about this board. It is now fully prioritized. If you want to contribute to Zallet just pick the github issue you like the most and get hacking, that’s it!

Meanwhile ECC folks are back at it and integrating the Zaino chain index work and providing feedback to Zingo colleagues. Zallet sync engine is being prepared to get more work done.

Block Explorer Support

  • Status: Testing

Tracking: https://github.com/orgs/zingolabs/projects/15

There is only ONE RPC LEFT 1.14: Add Zcash RPC gettxoutsetinfo

It turns out that these two were not being tracked on the board. Sorry about that!

In review:

Done

Thanks for reading!

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Zcash Developer Relations Engineer