ECC is dedicated to ship digital money by way 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 potential to have an effect on momentum requires agility and suppleness, and subsequently, our roadmap is directive and unrestrained — not mounted, not inflexible. As new data emerges, as we be taught, we are going to improvise. As market circumstances and different elements affect ECC income (positively or negatively), we are going to re-tune our strategy, refocus our efforts, and step on the gasoline. We’ll transfer rapidly, and strike the place there may be alternative.
The ECC roadmap shall be up to date quarterly, together with aims and timelines, and we welcome your participation. When you have abilities 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 individual, to assist us plan and adapt.
ECC Roadmap Q2 2025
Zashi Improvement:
The primary objective of Q2 for the Cell Staff is to ship Zashi 2.0 by the top of April. Totally redesigned residence display screen, app navigation, onboarding expertise, and basic pockets expertise really 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 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 wish to make sure that 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 necessary practical updates which we intention to ship in Q3 – equivalent to 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 largest 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 additional 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 person 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 probably 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 is determined by a number of exterior variables that may take time to make clear.
Constructed-in on- and off-ramps are one other steadily requested function 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 fee strategies throughout a number of nations. We’ll additionally proceed assessing different on- and off-ramp choices, equivalent to Coinbase and debit card integrations.
Improved key restoration strategies might also be explored.
It’s necessary to notice that not all options and integrations listed below “Discovery” within the Zashi vNext part of the roadmap shall be chosen for growth.
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 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 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!
