November 8th
Hello fellow Zebras! Another week, another update on Zcashd deprecation!
Outreach (@pili @decentralistdan @pacu):
- Status: on track
We continue to reach out to folks out there. Also Pacu proposed to start merging another Outreach to this one to ZCG. We are seeing that “optional-KYC” CEXs like Stealthex are increasing their confirmation times. This was well reported by @dismad and @zksquirrel on ZecHub but it seems that it can get worse at times. A user reported to pacu that their wait was 124 confs for a large sum of ZEC. Given that these kinds of CEXs are part of the “Tier 3” contacts it would be useful to add extra questions to their feedback request in terms of confirmation times to make ZEC users’ lives easier. “Two hours is too much to wait” - user said…
Zaino (ZingoLabs)
- status: on track
Zingo continues to advance in development of Zaino RPCs. They are close to wrapping up Milestone 1. And also adding extra Regtest features to Zebra
In-Memory backend wrap up
- status: Grant under evaluation
Chainsafe presented a follow-up grant for their In-memory wallet work upstream contribution.
Collaboration with ECC Engineers is required
Links:
- Memory Wallet Implementation by ec2 · Pull Request #1 · ChainSafe/librustzcash · GitHub
- Derive Serialize/Deserialize for certain simple structs by ec2 · Pull Request #1565 · zcash/librustzcash · GitHub
Zcashd Wallet CLI
- Status: on track
This is scheduled to be completed by the end of January! This timeline is TIGHT! So please check out the call to action below.
All hands eyes on deck! We need more reviewers!
Librustzcash is getting a lot of contributions! That’s good! But also a bottleneck for our dear maintainers Daira-Emma, Kris and Str4d.
So for that ECC folks will also invite Zcash developers from all teams to a “Librustzcash walkthrough” like the one ZF engineers did with the Zebra codebase so developers interested in helping on this can learn about the invariants and other important context of the Zcash Rust Crates (aka librustzcash) and provide insightful reviews that go beyond the formal aspects of language and style that seasoned Rust devs like them can already provide.
Happy weekend to you all!