Category: News

by Marshall Gaucher This week, the engineering team completed their hybrid Zcon0 sprint. Zcon0 provided a ton of valuable input from the community, which we intend to integrate into upcoming sprints. You can view each team’s progress in Github projects. Other...

By Paige Peterson This week, the engineering teams completed their 1st sprint of this release cycle. We’re tracking each team’s progress in Github projects so you can see a more detailed view of what they’re tackling each two-week sprint and what they...

By Paige Peterson This is our fortnightly community and communications update, for the latest update on the engineering front, check out last week’s update. From the blog… On May 21st, we announced our investment into Agoric. We’re excited about their mission to create secure...

By Paige Peterson This week’s update will be based on the various engineering teams completing their 3rd sprint of the release cycle. This is 3 of 3 in our 6-week release cycle where the end of the 3rd sprint lines...

By Paige Peterson This week’s update will be based on the various engineering teams second sprint. This completes sprint 2 of 3 in our 6-week release cycle where the end of the 3rd sprint lines up with the next zcashd...

By Paige Peterson May the 4th be with you, Zcash community!    Since last week saw the end of our first engineering sprint, we’re now in the middle of the second sprint so I figure it makes sense to try and...

By Paige Peterson Releases & Upgrades Just after last week’s update, we finished the process for releasing the first Overwinter compatible Zcash version, 1.1.0. We urge users to upgrade their Zcash clients in anticipation for the Overwinter activation on June 25th. If...

By Paige Peterson Releases and upgrades So we intended to get the 1.1.0 release out at the beginning of this week but got stalled a few days and are working diligently to get the release announcement blog and the new version onto the...

By Paige Peterson Just a quick dev update on Overwinter and Sapling this week. I’ll elaborate on more community related updates next week but as a reminder: Zcon0 & Consensus Scholar program applications are open! Overwinter Release This week we made the go decision for moving...

By Paige Peterson Overwinter testing & 1.1.0 This week, time was spent focused on diagnosing and reviewing the findings from a simulation of the Overwinter testnet activation to be better prepared for the testnet activation scheduled for early next week...