July 3rd
Another week, another Zcashd update!
Outreach
Status: resumed
We communicated the current timeline to miners and exchanges and we are getting feedback from them as they assess the current software releases and the proposed timeline. According to the information ZF and ZODL have gathered, the majority of the hash power is or plans to move to Zebra (88% taking the last 3 months average)
Zebra
ZF engineers released Zebra 6.0.0-rc which deploys NU6.3 on testnet. At the current block rate NU 6.3 testnet activation is expected to happen July 4th around 18.00 UTC. A lot of the testnet deployment progress is due to Marek’s expertise on mining and his generous contribution on this front, both with hashpower and brainpower. Gustavo is also working closely with Zaino and ZODL folks on Z3 stack integration and testing juggling rapid iteration and changes. Kudos to Gustavo as well.
Zaino (ZingoLabs)
- Status: released 0.5.1
Zaino Engineers completed their release of “everything up to ironwood”. See Zingo’s post and continue to work with the rest of the teams towards the current timeline.
Zallet full node wallet
- Status: Alpha.4 released
tracking work on this repository and collaboration opportunities tracked on this board.
Alpha.4 is getting excellent feedback and so far one exchange could migrate their wallet.dat successfully with no problems. We continue to improve documentation and receive feedback and requirements ecosystem partners hadn’t surfaced on previous outreach efforts. The in-progress work for Alpha.5 is focused on three areas: adding JSON-RPC methods for working with PCZTs, designing and implementing z_sendfromaccount and supporting t-to-t transactions
Thanks for reading.