ZGo Migration to Zebra - Grant Application

[pitmutt]

@readymouse

Are there other vendors who are actively using it?

We did receive a request from a new vendor. Due to the current migration to Zebra, we will work with them to implement their shop as soon as we are live on MainNet.

@readymouse

I couldn’t find Zenith Wallet in the play store, is that because it’s just used inside ZGo? Or is it just available someplace else?

Zenith is not a mobile wallet, it is a desktop wallet built to run on a local Zebra node. Product Details. Zenith also has an RPC server, that allows apps to interact with the Zcash chain programmatically. We are leveraging this functionality to remove the current dependency on zcashd and use zebrad instead.

@readymouse

What further development might be needed to expand adoption such that ZGo could become self-funded or profitable on it’s own?

This is probably the hardest problem, a bit of a chicken-and-the-egg problem.

1. A vendor will only bother implementing any Zcash payment if there’s enough people that will buy from them with ZEC. It’s not worth doing if you’re only going to sell $20 every two months to one guy.

2. People will want to spend (and receive ZEC for payments) if they know there are multiple places where they can use ZEC. See point 1.

I detailed an idea to start this flywheel here.