June 26th
Days pass quickly and the different teams are moving as fast as they can. Considering the activation height that the Zcash orgs agreed on (see ZODL’s Ironwood post), the current Zcashd EOS halt is approximately July 15th and Ironwood activation would be around July 21st. This is an aggressive timeline that responds to the Zcash ecosystem’s urgency for migrating to a formally verified version of the Orchard pool as it was well explained in @joshs’ X post.
We are working closely with ecosystem partners to avoid disruptions and have a smooth NU6.3 activation. This takes a lot of coordination and commitment from all involved parties. Valar Group is collaborating with ZODL to bring technical solutions that can ease this transition.
Testnet is our best ally to achieve this. Valar Group has been developing ironwood-ready librustzcash code on their private Ironwood Testnet with good results. Official Testnet NU6.3 activation is targeted around next Friday.
Outreach
Status: resumed
Zallet alpha and Ironwood outreach efforts are ongoing and we are communicating with different ecosystem actors to know their sentiment about the current timeline
Zebra
ZF engineers continue to collaborate with ZOLD engineers on Zallet integration while they are also progressing in Ironwood consensus work.
Zaino (ZingoLabs)
- Status: working on 0.5.0
Zaino engineers are working on optimizations for Zaino sync times and overall performance and responding to issues that ZODL engineers are reporting on their alpha testing and development work
Zallet full node wallet
- Status: Alpha.4 released
tracking work on this repository and collaboration opportunities tracked on this board.
We released Zallet Alpha.4! We encourage every Zcashd user to test the Zcashd wallet migration using Zallet and Zebra and provide feedback via GitHub.
Thanks for reading.