Zcash Z3 updates (formerly Zcashd Deprecation)

Ecosystem Updates
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February 27th

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

ZF engineers continue to build enhancements on Zebra and also contribute to the Z3 stack with integration tests, infrastructure work and reviewing community contributions. In terms of Zcashd deprecation a lot of work is being done to finish the implementation of ZIP-213, aka shielded coinbase which is an important milestone for the whole stack (see more about these on the Zallet section below)

Zaino (ZingoLabs)

  • Status: in progress

Project Board

Zingoistas are preparing Zaino 0.2.0 and their current release candidate is RC2. The Dev team is taking care of some issues blocking the official release. Meanwhile Zebra 4 support changes will be queued after the release comes out, which is more important to finish this first release process which the Zaino team is also “releasing”.

Zallet full node wallet

  • Status: new alpha incoming! :white_check_mark:

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

Community contributions continue to be reviewed and approved. Pacu and the Zallet team will continue to pick good contribution opportunities and tag them accordingly. Thank you to all the contributors for their time and effort to help keep building the foundations of what’s next!

Zallet developers continue to work on z_shieldcoinbase, meanwhile some Zcasher is building a mining pool with Zebra, Zaino and Zallet and some Testnet intensive activity brought some interesting insights to both Zebra and Zallet folks.

Block Explorer Support

  • Status: Coming soon!

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