ECC is dedicated to ship digital money by way of privateness protocol (Zcash) and product innovation. We imagine that is the very best 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 capability to have an effect on momentum requires agility and suppleness, and subsequently, our roadmap is directive and unrestrained — not fastened, not inflexible. As new info emerges, as we be taught, we are going to improvise. As market situations and different components influence ECC income (positively or negatively), we are going to re-tune our strategy, refocus our efforts, and step on the fuel. We are going to transfer shortly, and strike the place there may be alternative.
The ECC roadmap will likely be up to date quarterly, together with goals and timelines, and we welcome your participation. When you have expertise that may assist us, we’d like to work with you. Twice a 12 months, we’ll invite Zcash group builders to satisfy with us in particular person, to assist us plan and adapt.
Zashi Growth:
The primary aim of Q2 for the Cell Workforce is to ship Zashi 2.0 by the top of April. Totally redesigned dwelling display, 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 essential useful 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 properly. We additionally plan to concentrate on finalizing designs for multi-account assist and updating the Zashi web site in April and in Might. Potential priorities we want to get to if now we have further time embrace coinholder polling (additionally relying on the dev fund distribution mechanism selections the group is about to make), or seed phrase backup.
Zashi Discovery:
In Q2 2025, in response to sturdy consumer demand, ECC’s product advertising analysis will prioritize decentralized trade (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 might emerge as a key analysis precedence within the second half of the quarter. Nonetheless, progress on this space depends upon a number of exterior variables that may take time to make clear.
Constructed-in on- and off-ramps are one other continuously requested characteristic for Zashi. In mild of that, we’ll consider a possible integration with Banxa—a worldwide funds infrastructure supplier that allows 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, resembling Coinbase and debit card integrations.
Improved key restoration strategies may additionally be explored.
It’s essential to notice that not all options and integrations listed below “Discovery” within the Zashi vNext part of the roadmap will likely be chosen for growth.
Protocol:
ECC’s protocol engineering efforts within the subsequent quarter and past will concentrate on the work that’s wanted now to supply a sound base for future protocol growth, 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 will likely 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 Engineering Manger Daira-Emma Hopwood, highlighting ZSAs, zcashd deprecation, memo bundles, scalable liberated funds, governance, quantum resilience, supporting a PoS transition, & extra!