Zcash Z3 updates (formerly Zcashd Deprecation)

Ecosystem Updates
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May 9th

Hello! Another week! Another Zcash Z3 update!

Outreach

We will start asking the ecosystem specific questions on their expectations, requirements and suggestions of the process of migrating from Zcashd-to-zebrad. We have included past feedback on the existing work that is being developed by ECC devs.

Zebra

Project Roadmap board
Priority board

With Zebra 2.3.0 being out the Zebra team is working on very important things for Zcash Z3

Zaino (ZingoLabs)

  • Status: on track!

Project Board

Last week I told you that Milestone 3 of the first grant was progressing and close to completion. Yesterday @Zingolabs updated their grant thread.

In-Memory backend wrap up

- status: pending review :warning:

This has been falling through the cracks a bit, we still need to provide reviews to this PR https://github.com/zcash/librustzcash/pull/1634

We need reviewers for this!!

Zallet full node wallet

  • Status: delayed :warning: (but rapidly catching up)

ECC has notified a deviation of 2 months from the original schedule.

tracking work on this repository.

Yasser is starting to work on Docker tooling on Zallet.

@str4d continues to work on important tooling to move Zcashd operators to Zebra for which he’s looking for feedback. Please leave comments on this PR

ZeWIF integration in Zallet continues with serious amounts of collaboration between blockchain common, Zaino and ECC folks.

Wallet Export format + ZexCavator

  • Status: On-track

According to yesterday’s update from @ChristopherA on this thread, the ZeWIF part of this effort is considered done! This is a HUGE milestone since exporting Zcashd wallets to the new Stack is a critical part of upgrading all zcashd wallet users to the new infrastructure. ZCG informed the grantees they approve this consideration of Milestone 5 completion.

Block Explorer Support

  • Status: Started

As Zaino’s JSON RPC endpoint is maturing, we started to integrate Zcash Block Explorer into Zaino. ZingoLabs informed that they will parallelize some of their current work to start their follow-up grant that includes Block Explorer Support.

Zingo folks, myself and others started to fork the zcash-explorer repo to contribute to it.

Regtest? What is that?

  • Status: First round of review comments addressed

Same state as last update: I addressed the first round of comments on this PR https://github.com/zcash/zips/pull/986 and I see more comments coming!

You can read, review and comment too!

Thanks for reading!

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