Zcash Z3 updates (formerly Zcashd Deprecation)

Ecosystem Updates
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February 13th

Outreach

Status: Paused :white_check_mark:
We wrapped up the Zcashd EOS outreach successfully. Awaiting for Zallet Alpha 4 to be released to resume any outreach efforts.

Zebra

The ZF engineering team keeps improving Zebra and collaborating towards Zcashd deprecation with performance improving and addressing requirements from Exchanges and API providers. They also released Zebra 4.1.0 in response to issues raised by Zallet developers.

Zaino (ZingoLabs)

  • Status: in progress

Project Board

Zaino is getting updates to support Zebra 4.1 while Zaino folks are wrapping up the passthrough and code completed the chain index work. Chain index integration by Oscar-Pepper · Pull Request #650 · zingolabs/zaino · GitHub

They are also discussing enhancements in their testing framework by adopting the RPC Testing Framework that Alfredo from ZF is developing. The release process is also in the works and Zingo is exploring option to cover dockerization while maintaining their infrastructure as open as possible.

Zallet full node wallet

  • Status: new alpha incoming! :white_check_mark:

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

Zallet developers are working on several RPC towards cutting a new alpha four specific task are remaining to release alpha.4:

Plus, Zingo needing to update to 4.1. Which I’m taking care of.

Additionally, a bunch of community contributions were received and are being reviewed. Keep them coming!

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