ZconV: Zcash Unified 2024
2024-05-06..2024-05-10
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as the organisers put it
ZconV is an annual conference organized by the Zcash Foundation, with a focus on Zcash and privacy-preserving technologies.
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Crosslink and Possible Futures of Proof-of-Stake in Zcash | Daira | 01h 02m |
Proposal claims Crosslink 2 gives deterministic finality by layering a stake-weighted BFT over the existing PoW chain, requiring a one‑third adversary bound… | ||
| Zcash Foundation Update | Jack Gavigan | 32m |
Zcash Foundation reports it builds the Rust implementation Zebra (now in active use by developers) and implements a Rust version of the threshold-signature… | ||
| Trailer | 03m | |
A fast highlight reel previews session clips and music, asserting the community refuses to weaken privacy and calling strong privacy activist hardliners a… | ||
| Zcash and the Regulatory/Policy Environment Sessions | Peter Van Valkenburgh, Jonathan S. Rouach, J.W. Verret, Paul Brigner | 06h 57m |
Video compiles six sessions about concrete legal and product fights: OFAC sanction of Tornado Cash in 2022, subsequent developers indicted for conspiracy /… | ||
| ECC Update | Josh Swihart | 29m |
ECC outlines concrete moves to drive adoption: Zashi Android 1.0 shipped Apr 28 and iOS is live, work on UX, fiat on‑ramps and integrations with Brave… | ||
| ZSAs and Swaps--A Status Report | Vivek Arte, Pablo Kogan | 39m |
QEDIT reports the Zcash Shielded Assets protocol as functionally ready with ZIP 226/227/230 drafted and a swaps spec as ZIP 228, circuit optimizations cut the… | ||
| User Research: Zcash Payments Are Normal | Tatyana | 44m |
User research uses interviews and repeated surveys (shared on the Zcash Community Forum) to track Net Promoter Score and behaviors; NPS rises from negative to… | ||
| The Technical Road Ahead | Arya Solhi, Jonathan S. Rouach | 01h 31m |
Discussion lists concrete short‑term moves: add an explicit fee field (about +4 bytes) to transactions, redesign memos to allow memo decoupling… | ||
| Dev Fund 2.0 / The Future of Zcash Ecosystem Funding | Peter Van Valkenburgh, Josh Swihart | 01h 41m |
Current Dev Fund expires end Nov 2024 and discussion centers on whether to replace hardcoded block subsidies with a community-driven grant model or extend the… | ||
| My First Zcash | Elise Hamdon, Alfredo Garcia | 32m |
A community-built workbook called My First Zcash reaches version one on GitHub after an organized 56-day push using a shared task spreadsheet and Discord… | ||
| Zcash Wallet Landscape | Josh Swihart | 01h 23m |
Panel recaps that zashi 1.0 released Apr 28 (iOS and Android) and teams are prioritizing user utility like debit-card onramps, faster sync and liberated… | ||
| The Path to Shielded Programmability | Ying Tong Lai, Bryan Gillespie | 01h 00m |
The SoK presents a concrete three-phase model (independent off‑chain, mediated multiparty, global on‑chain) and catalogs real systems: 2PC matching with… | ||
| Bridging ZEC for DeFi and Payments | Kit Sturgeon | 28m |
Prototype runs as a three-node oracle subnet on Avalanche Fuji that reaches consensus on Zcash block contents and offers a one‑click verification history, and… | ||
| Zashi & SDKs | Andrea Kobrlova, Josh Swihart | 30m |
Zashi launches with 1,500 iOS and 854 Android downloads, 1.3k open-beta users, App Store rating 4.9 and Google Play 4.56, and open‑sourced iOS/Android SDKs… | ||
| Zebra Update | Alfredo Garcia, Arya Solhi | 16m |
Zebra adds typed DB column families and a database format upgrader that cuts disk use about 12% storage reduction (276 GB → 244 GB), implements… | ||
| ZecHub Zcash Education | Tecnopapapi, Dismad, Squirrel | 40m |
ZecHub is an open source Zcash education hub that moves content from Notion into zecHub.wiki with GitHub markdown and pull requests, runs weekly task bounties… | ||
| Recap at Zcash Global Lounge | 01h 50m | |
Hosted by @ZkAv_Club and @zechub, the lounge recaps concrete outcomes: a contest payout of 250 Z and live rankings, active debate over a protocol-funded dev… | ||
| To Bridge or Not to Bridge: What's at Stake? | Christopher Goes | 37m |
Frames proof of stake as two decisions: fork choice / finality (ECC’s trailing finality layer is the concrete hybrid proposal) and the staking/rewards design… | ||
| FROST Implementation Update | Natalie Eskinazi, Conrado Gouvêa | 25m |
Zcash Foundation implements FROST as a Rust crate that supports five cipher suites, both trusted-dealer and DKG keygen, re-randomized FROST, share recover… | ||
| Zenith, a full node wallet | Rene Vergara | 34m |
Zenith is a Haskell full-node wallet that talks directly to a Zebra node via the Zebra RPC, using embedded SQLite and a Haskell-to-Rust bridge to reuse ECC… | ||
| Zcash Sustainability Fund | Eiger | 37m |
Proposes a protocol change that preserves the 21 million cap while diverting small amounts of ZEC into a protocol-accounted sustainability balance tracked by… | ||
| Sanctions Implications for Zcash | Peter Van Valkenburgh | 56m |
OFAC adds Tornado Cash sanctions under IEEPA and then the DOJ indicts Roman Storm for conspiracy, arguing published protocol code plus an AWS-hosted UI can… | ||
| How Zcash Can Adapt and Thrive in a Hostile Regulatory Environment? | Paul Brigner | 01h 29m |
Panelists argue Zcash survives by leaning on its transparent option plus optional shielded transfers, pushing usability (Zecwallet, text payments) while… | ||
| U.S. Policy and Regulatory Update | Paul Brigner | 28m |
Quick U.S. regulatory rundown: Bitcoin ETF approval shifted capital and attention, courts now drive many decisions with a string of offensive suits against the… | ||
| Can we have privacy and compliance at the same time? | Jonathan S. Rouach | 46m |
QEDIT proposes Zcash Shielded Assets (ZSAs) for compliance-friendly stablecoins, using verifiable encryption so the issuer gets an issuer-only view of… | ||
| Chilling Effects of Recent US AML Prosecutions | J.W. Verret | 28m |
Four criminal cases (Sterlingov — up to 50 years for alleged Bitcoin Fog ties, Tornado Cash, Samourai/Whirlpool, local peer‑to‑peer settlements) shape… | ||
| Update on Crypto-Blockchain Policy Issues around the World | Kurt Opsahl | 25m |
Global policy updates hit specifics: the EU’s MiCA moves into implementing rules and MiCA requires platforms to ID holders which targets exchange exit points… | ||
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