ECC is dedicated to ship digital money by 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 capacity to have an effect on momentum requires agility and suppleness, and due to this fact, our roadmap is directive and unrestrained — not mounted, not inflexible. As new data emerges, as we be taught, we’ll improvise. As market circumstances and different components impression ECC income (positively or negatively), we’ll re-tune our strategy, refocus our efforts, and step on the fuel. We’ll transfer shortly, and strike the place there’s alternative.
The ECC roadmap will likely be up to date quarterly, together with targets and timelines, and we welcome your participation. You probably have abilities that may assist us, we’d like to work with you. Twice a yr, 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 Crew is to ship Zashi 2.0 by the top of April. Absolutely redesigned house display, app navigation, onboarding expertise, and normal pockets expertise actually requires a serious model bump! Along with the redesign, we’re additionally working to get in help for transaction submission over Tor, which might be a serious 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 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 ensure Zashi will unlock this functionality for them as quickly as potential. 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 purposeful updates which we intention to ship in Q3 – reminiscent of 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 most important 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’ve 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 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 can take time to make clear.
Constructed-in on- and off-ramps are one other continuously 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 fee strategies throughout a number of nations. We’ll additionally proceed assessing different on- and off-ramp choices, reminiscent of 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 beneath “Discovery” within the Zashi vNext part of the roadmap will likely be chosen for growth.
Protocol:
ECC’s protocol engineering efforts within the subsequent quarter and past will deal with 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 likely 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!
