It's time to take this to the next level.
Me and a few mates are working on a psuedo - LWS (Light wallet server), think lightwalletd meets WalletConnect to enable another option for Zcash users to interact and engage with the ecosystem.
The plan is to prototype the API via a working on chain Chat messenger, paid for in $ZEC. Shielded of course. Why chat? Because the next thing they will control you for, after the financial control, is your social profile (check latest EU legislations in the pipeline for 2026 for example, or X exposing user locations, and what Mark Zuckerberg does with FB and Insta).
Significant number of people will pivot to privacy.
This should open the doors to DApps and other smart contract style interactions on the Zcash protocol.
Potentially can be scaled to host DeFi apps, routers, oracles, and what not, give or take.
Entirely self funded by me and some friends at this stage. May reach out for support to active Zcash grants programs or VCs if they see the value in this. Although prefer to keep it decentralized rather than concentrated. One other option is to tokenize this on $SOL, bring in the community and crowd fund this project for the long term. Incentivize holders with $ZEC rewards or native token rewards. Yet to be decided.
Watch this space!
It's time to go from meddling with hardware to meddling with software!
If anyone is interested to join us, drop me a DM!
Could be nothing, could be something.
LATEST: ⚡️ Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas says that the recent explosion in enthusiasm for Zcash has "third-party candidate vibes" and risks splitting support away from Bitcoin at a crucial moment.
BREAKING: Zcash has finalized the Ironwood upgrade, targeting a late July launch.
Ironwood introduces a new shielded pool and supply safeguards. zcash:native
🚨UPDATE: Zcash devs finalized the Ironwood upgrade, adding a new Orchard shielded pool to reduce the risk of unlimited counterfeit $ZEC circulating.
ZEC has now recovered +80% from its intraday low of around $252 on June 5.
LATEST: ⚡ Zcash rebounded 42% after an emergency upgrade patched its Orchard vulnerability, while developers weighed a new shielded pool called Ironwood.
BREAKING: Introducing Ironwood, a new shielded pool for Zcash, backed by formal verification and independent audits, proposed by Zcash's core dev teams. Target activation: late July 2026.
Did you know?
Neptune, uses a Merkle Mountain Range Accumulator to represent the set of all UTXOs. Both spendable and unspendable.
New UTXOs are added to the accumulator.
When a UTXO is spent, it is marked as such.
🔥LATEST: $ZEC is building quantum recovery into its shielded protocol.
Zcash developers are working on tools that could help users recover Orchard shielded funds if future quantum threats force changes to the current protocol.
The $ZEC Bull Case w/ @mert and @tushar_jain:
- @Zcash as a private store of value
- why crypto without privacy isn’t really crypto
- the institutional path for Zcash
- quantum risk, shielded pools, and what comes next
🟢 Early access is out now for Premium members!
📅 Out on public feeds Tuesday, May 19.
We’re adding Zcash coinholder polling in @zodl_app with the first poll targeted for June.
Soon, anyone using Zodl will be able to share their opinion on the direction of the Zcash protocol by voting their coins. The voting protocol will also be available for integration with other shielded ZEC wallets.
The draft questions and timetable for the Zcash Network Upgrade 7 (NU7) poll are available here:
https://t.co/V1IIB4ZXcE
Thanks to @zkDragon and his team for all their work building and helping us integrate the new voting protocol.