Zcash's NU7 is implemented and activating on Testnet in less than a week!
Update to Zakura 1.6.0 and/or monitor the situation with Zakura's NU7 dashboard: zakura.com/nu7/
New Zakura Release: 1.6.0
This release adds Testnet support for NU7! Activation is approximately October 6.
Several performance improvements in this release speed up block verification, gossip and syncing.
zakura.com/announcements/…
Congrats to Ulrich, Luke, and Suyash (great cryptographers from StarkWare and Aztec) who are joining Shielded Labs to work on post-quantum research for Zcash!
They're just the latest in a string of high-caliber folks joining Zcash over the past year. LFG!
We essentially design the shielded protocol around these multisets, which are the fundamental stateful primitives of our construction.
Combining sets, decomposing them, filtering them, ordering them... Tachyon's "proof tree" is designed around these simple operations.
Tachyon uses really simple accumulators: multisets of nullifiers and note commitments are roots of univariate polynomials, and we accumulate polynomial commitments into a hash chain.
These are both very cheap and simple, and ride along with the recursive SNARK nearly for free!
Tachyon grafts a Zcash wallet's state machine over a tree of recursive SNARKs.
The most important artifacts of that process are accumulators, and we've specifically designed ours for transaction aggregation and non-membership proofs:
tachyon.z.cash/blog/building-…
There's an entire "waiting" screen in Zcash wallets that users don't need to see anymore because it's so fast now.
Try it out today only in @vizorwallet!
“It is meaningfully different to be a Zcash user today than literally six weeks ago.”
Dev Ojha (@zkDragon) joins me to discuss Zcash’s security and UX improvements since Ironwood went live:
- A quantum-recoverable, formally verified shielded pool
- Proving optimizations
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NU7 is coming! All of the Zcash development orgs have come to unanimous agreement about the contents and timeline of our next network upgrade, following the sentiment collection results earlier this week.
Activation approximately November 5.
Learn more:
forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/nu7-timeline…
Buying zcash:native on Korean air star link wifi rn. See yall in Seoul when I land. Very excited about crypto again now that my bags are pumping past previously known bounds. Zero gravity hasn't even been turned on yet
Bought additional spot $ZEC here at $1,600
Not saying it won't go lower. I believe it will be the #1 runner of the next cycle.
But I truly believe all privacy coins will have a generational run this half decade. Zignificantly higher tbh
Sold 100% of my spot $ZEC here at $1,500.
Not saying it won't go higher. I believe it will be the #1 runner of the next cycle.
And yes, I love the tech.
But at the end of the day, Vitalik is writing a privacy novel, and I genuinely believe it will onboard the next 1
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