Zcash Z3 updates (formerly Zcashd Deprecation)

Ecosystem Updates
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May 30th

Hello dear Zcashers! there’s another update on the progress of our new Zcash Stack

Outreach

Status: Paused
We will discuss this further in the next sections but we are getting closer to having artifacts and containers that Zcash partners can start testing so we will pivot to the next phase of outreach when those are almost done.

Zebra

Project Roadmap board
Priority board

Another Sprint has finished and as always @Pili has posted a very thorough Engineering Update.

The Zebra team is reviewing a lot of code and contributing to Zallet and Zaino. Zcash is ATH in collaboration and Zebra engineers have a lot to do with that!.

Zaino (ZingoLabs)

  • Status: on track!

Project Board

Zaino folks are wrapping up ​​better zebra error propagation and working on the chain cache refactoring and re-architecting.

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.

This past week ECC folks have been focused on Tachyon and protocol research in an off-site event. Zallet work didn’t stop but did slowed its pace a bit.

Call for Developers!

If you want to start working on something Zcash related and you don’t know where to start, Zallet is a good way to do it. With many RPC methods already developed that can be good examples for the creation of others, the project is in a good shape to start taking contributions from the broad community. Fork the Zallet repo and start hacking!.

Wallet Export format + ZexCavator

  • Status: Done!

The ZexCavator v0 was released last Saturday and didn’t make it to the last update!

Block Explorer Support

  • Status: in progress

This continues to be in development. I developed a new method to cover Coin Market Cap’s requirements and we will see these changes on the mainnet block explorer soon. We will continue to work on Zebra + Zaino integration gradually as missing RPCs continue to be implemented.

Regtest? What is that?

  • Status: in review

I’ve addressed a second round of comments and waiting for more.

Thanks for reading!

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