ECC is dedicated to ship digital money by means of privateness protocol (Zcash) and product innovation. We imagine that is the perfect 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 mounted, not inflexible. As new data emerges, as we study, we’ll improvise. As market circumstances and different elements influence ECC income (positively or negatively), we’ll re-tune our method, refocus our efforts, and step on the fuel. We’ll transfer shortly, and strike the place there’s alternative.
The ECC roadmap shall be up to date quarterly, together with goals and timelines, and we welcome your participation. If in case you have expertise that may assist us, we’d like to work with you. Twice a yr, we’ll invite Zcash group builders to satisfy with us in individual, to assist us plan and adapt.
Zashi Growth:
The primary aim of Q2 for the Cellular Group is to ship Zashi 2.0 by the tip of April. Absolutely redesigned house display screen, app navigation, onboarding expertise, and normal pockets expertise really requires a serious model bump! Along with the redesign, we’re additionally working to get in assist for transaction submission over Tor, which might be a serious safety replace.
DEXes in Zashi are going to be the subsequent precedence as soon as Zashi 2.0 is launched. The aim 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 need to make certain Zashi will unlock this functionality for them as quickly as doable. 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 useful updates which we purpose to ship in Q3 – reminiscent of Auto-shielding, Deal with rotation, Export funds function, 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 most important precedence for this quarter as nicely. We additionally plan to give attention to finalizing designs for multi-account assist and updating the Zashi web site in April and in Could. Potential priorities we wish to get to if now we have further time embrace coinholder polling (additionally relying on the dev fund distribution mechanism choices the group is about to make), or seed phrase backup.
Zashi Discovery:
In Q2 2025, in response to sturdy person demand, ECC’s product advertising and marketing analysis will prioritize decentralized change (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 determined by a number of exterior variables that can take time to make clear.
Constructed-in on- and off-ramps are one other often requested function for Zashi. In gentle of that, we’ll consider a possible integration with Banxa—a worldwide funds infrastructure supplier that permits seamless fiat-to-crypto conversions utilizing native cost strategies throughout a number of nations. We’ll additionally proceed assessing different on- and off-ramp choices, reminiscent of Coinbase and debit card integrations.
Improved key restoration strategies may additionally 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 give attention to the work that’s wanted now to supply a sound base for future protocol improvement, in live performance with the Zcash group 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 data 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!