Zcash Z3 updates (formerly Zcashd Deprecation)

May 22nd

Hello! Another week! Another Zcash Z3 development update! Did you know that Block Explorer support on Zainod is dev complete? Kudos @Zingolabs!

Outreach

Status: resumed

Zcashd 6.12.3 outreach has finished. Dan (BD from ZODL) is going to start an additional communication channel based on the master list that we have built over these years to have comms channel redundancy. Thanks @joshs for the idea and Dan for the execution. It was a lot of work/

Zebra

ZF engineers have published a new engineering report! Zebra keeps getting improvements and ZF engineers also continue to contribute to Zallet development with tighter integration tests and PR reviews.

Zaino (ZingoLabs)

  • Status: working on 0.3.0-rc2

Project Board

Did you know that now Zaino Block Explorer support is complete? Check this update from @Zancas.I can’t tell you to go to that section of the post because it’s no longer there!! Also Chain Index work is “dev complete” and Zaino engineers are now pivoting to Zaino Completion Milestone 2 which focuses on internal improvements and debugging. Also being able to take some Zallet integration review and testing themselves.

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.

Zallet folks keep crossing their t’s and dotting their i’s. There’s a lot of work already done that needs review and attention from other devs:

How do I help?

Simple. Go to the alpha.4 dagny. People should focus on the bottom half of the graph. Which are the issues
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* 1220

Apart from that @nullcopy is working on the Zcashd key material import use case which is fundamental for migrating exchanges to Z3. @nuttycom is going through Str4d’s PR’s on Zaino integration and adoption of latest revisions of Zainod.

Kudos to both! That’s a lot of work!

Block Explorer Support

  • Status: Completed

Thanks for reading!

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