Zcash Builders Replace 10-22-2021 – Zcash Neighborhood

Good day Zcashers,

Welcome again to the Friday Neighborhood Replace! Right here’s the freshest batch of updates from the land of ECC:

Zcash updates

• ECC has welcomed Beth Patterson as our new Head of Strategic Alliances!
• ECC launched the most recent Transparency Report , overlaying This fall 2020 and Q1 2021.
• This put up  on the ECC weblog outlines ballot outcomes from a latest non-binding, coin-weighted ZEC-holder ballot.
• New Launch 4.5.1-1  is a required replace for all testnet nodes and is extremely beneficial for some mainnet nodes.
• As a part of ECC’s third planning time period of 2021, we outlined a multi-year “North Star,”  together with plans throughout departments for the subsequent four-month time period. The main focus? To ship a world-class consumer expertise for ZEC.
• ECC has begun surveying guests  to z.money and electriccoin.co  web sites as a part of a brand new product technique that focuses on consumer suggestions and market analysis…
• Digital foreign money asset supervisor Grayscale introduced that buying and selling has commenced for Grayscale Zcash Belief.
• ECC is seeking to rent a stellar Head of Product Advertising. Be taught extra  about it and all of our profession alternatives on our web site.

DevSecOps

Core

• Launched Zcashd variations 4.5.1 and 4.5.1-1 
  • 4.5.1 included two Testnet Orchard circuit adjustments and stuck a regression within the getbalance RPC methodology
  • 4.5.1-1 added v5 transactions to straightforward guidelines and added a listaddresses RPC to switch the getaddressesbyaccount RPC
• ZIPs 32 and 316 had been up to date to deal with HD viewing key derivation
• ZIP 239 was up to date to make clear the supposed behaviour for unrecognized stock varieties
• Made progress on the mandatory refactors to arrange for recursion in Halo 2
• Made nice progress on changing the Zcashd pockets to derive all new addresses from mnemonic seed
• The foremost lemma for the Halo 2 safety proof is sort of carried out
• Up to date the protocol specification to replicate the Orchard circuit adjustments made in Zcashd 4.5.1

Pockets

• Android SDK:
  • Gradle plugin updates and enhancements
• Secant Pockets
  • Kotlin Multiplatform + JetPack Compose Analysis Spike
    • Might permit us goal Desktop and Net with (principally) the identical codebase
    • Bootstrap of the undertaking’s setting In progress
• iOS SDK:
  • Rust-Much less Builds Analysis Spike concluded.
    • Will Assist SDK customers to hurry up their construct jobs by 2 to five minutes
  • Swift Bundle Supervisor Analysis Spike Concluded
    • Is dependent upon Rust-Much less builds (which companions appear completely satisfied about)
• Secant Pockets iOS
  • Onboarding Circulate Display with (semi) Remaining Designs In Progress
  • Restoration Phrase Circulate in Progress
  • Customized UI-Elements In flight
  • App Structure Analysis Spike Concluded
• UX / UI Design
  • Design Pointers v1 Accomplished
  • Design Pointers (in progress)
  • Suggestions loop on UI-Elements for iOS
  • Residence display screen tips and Lottie animations (In progress)

Within the information, Time Journal explores conversations  about liberation and cash within the Black Bitcoin neighborhood. The Division of Justice introduced plans to launch a crypto enforcement staff. Ashkan Soltani, former chief technologist for the U.S. FTC, was named govt director  of California Privateness Safety Company.

Bon week-end!

[ Originally posted on Zcash Forums ]