Zcashd Deprecation updates

Ecosystem Updates
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December 27th

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

Outreach (@pili @decentralistdan @pacu):

* Status: on track
Holiday season brings us a slow week in all companies that we are reaching out.

Zebra

ZF engineering team is out this week

Zaino (ZingoLabs)

  • status: on track

Project Board

Zaino devs are working a lot! A Christmas coding spirit. The new infrastructure is progressing and not without its bumps and hiccups of putting up a new system and making its gears turn. To folks not familiarized with software engineering, this is normal friction. The ecosystem will iron out these wrinkles. Zaino is exercising Zebra Regtest and there are findings that the team has documented

Zebrad Regtest findings:

I invite you all with a curious mind to play with Zaino and Regtest, help us find gaps in documentation and request features you’d like to have in our testing infrastructure.

PRs for review:

In-Memory backend wrap up

- status: on track

This has been falling through the cracks a bit, we still need to provide reviews to this PR Add serde derives to primitive types behind feature flag by willemolding · Pull Request #1627 · zcash/librustzcash · GitHub

@nuttycom and myself are reviewing this PR.

“Zallet” (that’s pronounced Zallè, like ballet) formerly Zcashd Wallet CLI

  • Status: on track :warning:

This is scheduled to be completed by the end of January! This timeline is TIGHT!

tracking work on this repository.

It’s Kris-mas! And our champion @nuttycom is working on issues present on the DAG like this one implementing gap limit and other functionality for transparent Zcash support on librustzcash.

Wallet Export format

  • Status: Grant Approved!!

Zcash Community Grants committee approved this grant proposal as announced on this post. Work on ZeWiF has already started. Dorian from Zingolabs has been carrying out the format survey and updated the ZIP-400 for ZIP editors to review when they resume their editorial meetings. Also, ZingoLabs is meeting users with stuck funds in “legacy” wallets to learn more about requirements that may have to be added to the format.

Blockchain Commons’ team will start working on grant items next year -:stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: that is a few days from now you impatient zeeps!

I don’t want to end the last update of this year without thanking all the community for the trust and confidence that you’ve honored me with.

Zcash is All Time High on collaboration and that is noticeable. We keep building the Zcash we want to see in the world. And for that to continue growing, we need to be competitive in terms of development tools we provide to those with a builder’s soul and privacy at heart. We are taking the necessary steps towards a more decentralized developer friendly ecosystem that can produce the applications that Zcashers around the globe urgently need.

Summer vacations are starting in the southern hemisphere of our planet. Let’s make this recess full of Zcash summer projects!

Happy New Year!

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