Zcash Z3 updates (formerly Zcashd Deprecation)

Ecosystem Updates
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November 28th

Hello! Last Monday was a big date for everyone! Another Network Upgrade successfully carried out by all the people and organizations in our ecosystem. Congratulations to ZF, ECC, Zingo, Shielded Labs, ZCG and all of you who collaborated sending your reports and statuses. We can’t also neglect the other big date on Tuesday where coinholders voted on retroactive grants proposals. All of this is happening! Also, it’s Thanksgiving in some countries and Zcashers are celebrating with their loved ones. Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate. Meanwhile, another week, another Zcash Z3 update.

Outreach

Status: In progress :white_check_mark:

We did a quick run through to catch any last minute team that wasn’t aware of NU 6.1 and got a lot of thumbs up. In terms of Z3, we are getting good feedback from teams trying out the Z3 docker files that ZF put together.

Zebra

The Zebra team has released version 3.1.0 with some fixes around ARM docker support, mempool optimization and maximum size of RPC responses.

Zaino (ZingoLabs)

  • Status: in progress

Project Board

Zaino folks continue working on the chain_state feature and incorporating feedback from ECC core devs. You can track this work here. Also transparent data support progress can be tracked here

Zallet full node wallet

  • Status: Alpha Released :white_check_mark:

tracking work on this repository and collaboration opportunities tracked on this board.

Zallet has received collaborations from external contributors and also improvements on the CLI usage, for example to support user and password authentication. Foundational work for sync engine revamp has been merged. wohoo!

Block Explorer Support

  • Status: Testing

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

The Zcash block explorer needed some maintenance due to NU 6.1 and new influx of transactions. Also, Zebra adaptation of Zcash Block explorer continues and will be moved to production soon. On the other hand, we haven’t progressed much on this front and the same status of last week remains.

In review:

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Thanks for reading!

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