ZSA - Update on Release

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ZSAs are in the plan for NU7:

Important: Deadline for ZIPs that want to be activated in NU7

After several marathon meetings (of which there will be many more in the next few weeks), the ZIP Editors have assembled the full set of ZIP drafts proposed as candidates for inclusion in NU7: ZIP 226: Transfer and Burn of Zcash Shielded Assets ZIP 227: Issuance of Zcash Shielded Assets ZIP 230: Version 6 Transaction Format ZIP 231: Memo Bundles ZIP 233: Network Sustainability Mechanism: Burning ZIP 234: Network Sustainability Mechanism: Issuance Smoothing ZIP 235: Network Sustainability Mecha…

Development is ongoing:

[Grant Update] Zcash Shielded Assets Monthly Updates

Dear Zcash community, We are happy to share with you an update on what we have been working on for the ZSA project! Zebra Node We have prepared an initial sequence of pull requests in our fork (Step 1: PR#24, Step 2: PR#15, Step 3: PR#16, Step 4: PR#17, Step 5: PR#18) with the changes we mentioned in our previous update. We have been pair reviewing this with the Zcash Foundation, in order to prevent a situation where we submit one big, hard-to-handle PR at the end of the process. In parallel,…