Zcash Z3 updates (formerly Zcashd Deprecation)

Ecosystem Updates
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January 16th

Hello! It has been almost a month since the last update and a lot of things have happened and changed. Well, something did not change: We keep working towards Zcashd deprecation no matter what goes around us.

Outreach

Status: In progress :white_check_mark:
We are wrapping up 6.11.0 communications and troubleshooting issues with one partner that had issues deploying it.

Zebra

The ZF team has published a new Rust implementation for Zcash Seeders and also doing a lot of chores around Zebra. Go Team!

Zaino (ZingoLabs)

  • Status: in progress

Project Board

Zingo Labs recovered one dev and is organizing to wrap up chain_state changes. Meanwhile I’m ironing out some test failures on the adoption of 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.

I met with the Zallet team and we outlined our path towards Zallet Beta. We established that we could cut a Beta Version in March. This will be the moment where we will open the testing phase to all the partners we have direct contact with (and any others that want to join). For this we are accounting that there will be at least 4 more alpha releases before then.

We also groomed Zallet’s issues and added “Z-contributors-wanted“, “E-good-first-issue” and “E-help-wanted” to all the issues that are ready to be worked on and that we expect community collaborations for. For example https://github.com/zcash/wallet/issues/327

Block Explorer Support

  • Status: Paused

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

This has been paused in order to wrap up chain_state work first. Otherwise these RPCs will have to be reworked with the new chain_state changes.
Pending:

In review:

Done

Thanks for reading!

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Zcash Developer Relations Engineer