ECC is dedicated to ship digital money by privateness protocol (Zcash) and product innovation. We imagine that is the perfect technique to help 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 adaptability, and due to this fact, our roadmap is directive and unrestrained — not fastened, not inflexible. As new info emerges, as we be taught, we’ll improvise. As market situations and different elements influence ECC income (positively or negatively), we’ll 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 will likely be up to date quarterly, together with aims 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 satisfy with us in particular person, to assist us plan and adapt.
ECC Roadmap Q2 2025
Zashi Growth:
The primary aim of Q2 for the Cellular Crew is to ship Zashi 2.0 by the tip of April. Totally redesigned residence 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 help for transaction submission over Tor, which might be a significant safety replace.
DEXes in Zashi are going to be the following precedence as soon as Zashi 2.0 is launched. The aim is to implement help for clear swaps with Maya DEX and Close to Intents platform. We’re conscious that Zashi customers have been ready for DEX help for a very long time, and we wish to be sure 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 help, we needed to push ahead some necessary purposeful updates which we purpose to ship in Q3 – corresponding to Auto-shielding, Handle rotation, Export funds function, Multi-account help 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 help and updating the Zashi web site in April and in Could. Potential priorities we want to get to if we have now additional time embody 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 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 probably ZEC swaps inside Zashi.
Whereas DEX help 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 depends upon 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 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, corresponding to Coinbase and debit card integrations.
Improved key restoration strategies can also be explored.
It’s necessary to notice that not all options and integrations listed underneath “Discovery” within the Zashi vNext part of the roadmap will likely 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 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 Belongings.
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!
