ECC is dedicated to ship digital money by privateness protocol (Zcash) and product innovation. We consider that is the most effective technique to assist our mission of financial freedom, together with the safety and preservation of particular person privateness and consent, safety, and human dignity.
Our capacity to have an effect on momentum requires agility and adaptability, and subsequently, our roadmap is directive and unrestrained — not fastened, not inflexible. As new info emerges, as we study, we are going to improvise. As market circumstances and different components influence ECC income (positively or negatively), we are going to re-tune our strategy, refocus our efforts, and step on the gasoline. We are going to transfer shortly, and strike the place there may be alternative.
The ECC roadmap shall be up to date quarterly, together with targets and timelines, and we welcome your participation. You probably have abilities that may assist us, we’d like to work with you. Twice a 12 months, we’ll invite Zcash neighborhood builders to satisfy with us in particular person, to assist us plan and adapt.
Zashi Growth:
The primary purpose of Q2 for the Cell Staff is to ship Zashi 2.0 by the tip of April. Totally redesigned dwelling display, app navigation, onboarding expertise, and normal pockets expertise actually requires a significant model bump! Along with the redesign, we’re additionally working to get in assist for transaction submission over Tor, which might be a significant safety replace.
DEXes in Zashi are going to be the subsequent precedence as soon as Zashi 2.0 is launched. The purpose is to implement assist for clear swaps with Maya DEX and Close to Intents platform. We’re conscious that Zashi customers have been ready for DEX assist for a very long time, and we wish to be certain that Zashi will unlock this functionality for them as quickly as potential. We’re wanting ahead to working with the Maya and Close to groups.
Whereas prioritizing the DEX assist, we needed to push ahead some vital purposeful updates which we goal to ship in Q3 – resembling Auto-shielding, Tackle rotation, Export funds characteristic, Multi-account assist or Seed phrase backup.
Zashi Design:
Zashi Product Design is tirelessly supporting all the event necessities, so UX/UI for clear swaps and cross-chain funds inside Zashi are going to be the largest precedence for this quarter as nicely. We additionally plan to deal with finalizing designs for multi-account assist and updating the Zashi web site in April and in Could. Potential priorities we want to get to if we’ve got additional time embody coinholder polling (additionally relying on the dev fund distribution mechanism choices the neighborhood is about to make), or seed phrase backup.
Zashi Discovery:
In Q2 2025, in response to robust consumer demand, ECC’s product advertising and marketing analysis will prioritize decentralized alternate (DEX) integrations. This features a deeper exploration of Maya and NEAR Intents integrations to allow cross-chain funds and doubtlessly ZEC swaps inside Zashi.
Whereas DEX assist will stay the first focus all through Q2, Zashi Vault could emerge as a key analysis precedence within the second half of the quarter. Nevertheless, progress on this space is dependent upon a number of exterior variables that can take time to make clear.
Constructed-in on- and off-ramps are one other regularly requested characteristic for Zashi. In gentle of that, we’ll consider a possible integration with Banxa—a world funds infrastructure supplier that allows seamless fiat-to-crypto conversions utilizing native fee strategies throughout a number of international locations. We’ll additionally proceed assessing different on- and off-ramp choices, resembling Coinbase and debit card integrations.
Improved key restoration strategies may be explored.
It’s vital to notice that not all options and integrations listed below “Discovery” within the Zashi vNext part of the roadmap shall be chosen for improvement.
Protocol:
ECC’s protocol engineering efforts within the subsequent quarter and past will deal with the work that’s wanted now to offer a sound base for future protocol improvement, in live performance with the Zcash neighborhood and builders at Zcash Basis, Qedit, Shielded Labs, Zingo Labs, and others.
The first emphasis of ECC’s engineering work on this quarter shall be on Zcashd deprecation and the deployment of Zcash Shielded Property.
For extra info please see an in depth breakdown of the ECC Protocol Engineering Roadmap by R&D Engineering Manger Daira-Emma Hopwood, highlighting ZSAs, zcashd deprecation, memo bundles, scalable liberated funds, governance, quantum resilience, supporting a PoS transition, & extra!
