Zcashd Deprecation updates

Hello fellow Zebras! Another week, another update on Zcashd deprecation!

Outreach (@pili @decentralistdan @pacu):

  • Status: on track

We are following up on tier 1 contacts and starting to reach out to block explorers to get a list of RPC requirements in terms of existing RPC methods they use and points of improvement.

Zaino

  • status: on track

Deliverable 1.1 is complete and 1.2 has been started! wohoooo!!! kudos to @idky137 and the rest of Zingo Labs!

Also they started work on the testing framework required for comparing functionality between lightwalletd-zaino and zcashd-zebra and also they are brewing the changes required for using zebra as zainos backend

In-Memory backend wrap up

  • Status: On track

As you might have read in this forum post WebZ.js is almost ready and ChainSafe is working with ZCG on a grant extension to contribute upstream to librustzcash in a way that’s fruitful for both ends.

As you can appreciate below, crossing out these tasks clears a path of the DAG that is super important to our Goal

Zcashd deprecation RPC analysis

  • no changes

There are some outstanding questions on how to proceed on already deprecated methods on Zcashd that are being revealed to be highly used by current users.

Others

I was blocked on some tasks so I grabbed a task from the DAG which is in review. Thanks Daria-Emma for your thorough feedback

[Action items]

  • If you have ideas, please post them below!
  • If you run Zcash infrastructure and have input about this, reach out!
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