Zcash Z3 updates (formerly Zcashd Deprecation)

Ecosystem Updates
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December 12th

Outreach

Status: In progress :white_check_mark:

We keep getting feedback from partners testing the Z3 container and ZF folks and contributors are crushing it and fixing the reported issues. The NU 6.1 retrospective survey is getting some responses as well which considering how busy everyone is preparing for the holidays is pretty surprising.

Zebra

Our striped node is getting a lot of enhancements like value pool, RPC, and peer health metrics, telemetry, metrics and much more like pre-canopy consensus checks. Something joyful to see is the amount of new contributors that are popping up and sending PRs from small nits to meaningful improvements. Congratulations to the Zebra team for making this codebase so welcoming.

Zaino (ZingoLabs)

  • Status: in progress

Project Board

Zallet integration is testing zaino’s endurance and making it sweat. Devs are working out some API expectations mismatches and continuing to integrate the chain state work. As for transparent data and LWD parity I’m helping out with integration of the lightclient-protocol v0.4.0.

Zallet full node wallet

  • Status: new alpha incoming! :white_check_mark:

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

Str4d and Kris are working a lot to release alpha 3 soon. ZF folks are also contributing by bringing up issues and also coding. Alfredo from ZF is working on the RPC testing framework which is a fundamental tool to measure completeness and sanity of our tooling.

Block Explorer Support

  • Status: Testing

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

This has been getting a bit sidelined. There’s no progress still for these. Contributions wanted!

In review:

Done

Thanks for reading!

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Zcash Developer Relations Engineer