ECC is dedicated to ship digital money by means of privateness protocol (Zcash) and product innovation. We imagine that is one of the 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 potential to have an effect on momentum requires agility and adaptability, and subsequently, our roadmap is directive and unrestrained — not mounted, not inflexible. As new info emerges, as we be taught, we’ll improvise. As market circumstances and different elements impression ECC income (positively or negatively), we’ll re-tune our method, 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 will probably be up to date quarterly, together with targets and timelines, and we welcome your participation. You probably have expertise that may assist us, we’d like to work with you. Twice a 12 months, we’ll invite Zcash group builders to fulfill with us in particular person, to assist us plan and adapt.
ECC Roadmap Q2 2025
Zashi Improvement:
The primary objective of Q2 for the Cellular Staff is to ship Zashi 2.0 by the top of April. Totally redesigned house 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 following precedence as soon as Zashi 2.0 is launched. The objective 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 ensure that Zashi will unlock this functionality for them as quickly as doable. We’re trying ahead to working with the Maya and Close to groups.
Whereas prioritizing the DEX assist, we needed to push ahead some necessary practical updates which we goal to ship in Q3 – akin to Auto-shielding, Handle 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 properly. We additionally plan to concentrate on 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 additional 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 robust person 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 could emerge as a key analysis precedence within the second half of the quarter. Nonetheless, progress on this space will depend on a number of exterior variables that can take time to make clear.
Constructed-in on- and off-ramps are one other continuously requested function for Zashi. In mild of that, we’ll consider a possible integration with Banxa—a world 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, akin to Coinbase and debit card integrations.
Improved key restoration strategies may be explored.
It’s necessary to notice that not all options and integrations listed beneath “Discovery” within the Zashi vNext part of the roadmap will probably be chosen for improvement.
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 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 will probably 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!
