ECC is dedicated to ship digital money via privateness protocol (Zcash) and product innovation. We consider 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 means 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 study, we’ll improvise. As market circumstances and different elements impression ECC income (positively or negatively), we’ll 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 will probably be up to date quarterly, together with targets 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 individual, to assist us plan and adapt.
ECC Roadmap Q2 2025
Zashi Growth:
The primary aim of Q2 for the Cell Crew 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 help 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 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 need to be sure Zashi will unlock this functionality for them as quickly as attainable. We’re wanting ahead to working with the Maya and Close to groups.
Whereas prioritizing the DEX help, we needed to push ahead some necessary useful updates which we intention to ship in Q3 – akin to Auto-shielding, Deal with rotation, Export funds characteristic, 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 properly. We additionally plan to give attention to finalizing designs for multi-account help and updating the Zashi web site in April and in Might. Potential priorities we wish to get to if we’ve 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 person demand, ECC’s product advertising 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 help will stay the first focus all through Q2, Zashi Vault might 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 ceaselessly requested characteristic 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 fee 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 below “Discovery” within the Zashi vNext part of the roadmap will probably 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 will probably be on Zcashd deprecation and the deployment of Zcash Shielded Belongings.
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!
