by Alan Fairless, Jack Gavigan, Andrew Miller and Zooko Wilcox

Following conversations at Zcon4 in Barcelona, the Zcash Basis (ZF) and Electrical Coin Co. (ECC) are excited to announce that we’ve agreed to maneuver core Zcash protocol work from zcashd to Zebra! 🦓🛡️

Zebra is a model new Zcash full node implementation written from the bottom up in Rust. Each the ECC and ZF groups imagine the fashionable structure and good engineering in Zebra will present a safer and extra environment friendly implementation of the Zcash core protocol. 

Zebra was created by ZF with important help and help from ECC builders, and depends on Zcash core libraries authored at ECC. Each organizations’ groups will collaborate to establish what performance must be added to Zebra to handle the mandatory use circumstances, and to encourage and help key customers emigrate to Zebra. Zcashd will proceed to be supported throughout the transition, which is able to take an undetermined period of time. ECC plans to proceed independently supporting core Zcash protocol upgrades, reminiscent of its deliberate implementation of proof of stake, utilizing Zebra.

ECC engineers constructed the unique Zcash full node (“zcashd”) and have maintained and supported it via 69 releases and 6 community upgrades since 2016. This unique implementation inherits the Bitcoin codebase and has grown difficult to take care of. At this time’s introduced transition will scale back the time it’s going to take to deploy new options for Zcash, and permit extra engineering time towards pockets SDKs and a transition away from PoW consensus. For ECC, that is a part of its technique of “Decentralize Zcash and Focus ECC”. For ZF, this marks a major milestone for the Zebra challenge.

As a part of this transition, Zooko on the Electrical Coin Firm has gifted a zebra go well with beforehand seen on stage at Zcon1, to Jack Gavigan of ZF.

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