Zcash Z3 updates (formerly Zcashd Deprecation)

Ecosystem Updates
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May 1st

Hello everyone! There was an interesting discussion in yesterday’s Zcash Arborist Call about how we are shifting our approach given the latest developments. Go watch it!

Outreach

Status: paused

ZF and SL engineers continue working on improvements on Shielded Labs’ deployment scenario proposal for exchanges and mining pools. Once this is done we will evaluate reaching out partners to promote this setup.

Zebra

ZF engineers have been working on more bugfixes reported on Zebra and they will release a new version soon.

Zaino (ZingoLabs)

  • Status: working in 0.2.1

Project Board

Zingoistas are work under the hood, integration tests, LWD Parity tests, cleanup of code and 0.3.0 release in preparation.

Zallet full node wallet

  • Status: working towards alpha.4

tracking work on this repository and collaboration opportunities tracked on this board. You can take a look at what’s ahead for the Alpha.4 release here.

ZODL engineers keep doing updates to the librustzcash crates, they also responded to core2 library being yanked and released a coreZ crate that replaces it. They added the ability to regression test Zallet wallets that go back to genesis block on regtest.

Block Explorer Support

  • Status: resumed

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

This work is being resumed and Zingo is prioritizing these tasks higher on the list
Pending:

In review:

Done

Thanks for reading!

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