ECC is dedicated to ship digital money by means of privateness protocol (Zcash) and product innovation. We imagine that is the very best 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 subsequently, our roadmap is directive and unrestrained — not mounted, not inflexible. As new info emerges, as we study, we’ll improvise. As market situations and different elements influence ECC income (positively or negatively), we’ll re-tune our method, refocus our efforts, and step on the gasoline. We’ll transfer shortly, and strike the place there may be alternative.
The ECC roadmap will likely be up to date quarterly, together with targets and timelines, and we welcome your participation. When you’ve got abilities that may assist us, we’d like to work with you. Twice a 12 months, we’ll invite Zcash neighborhood builders to fulfill with us in particular person, to assist us plan and adapt.
ECC Roadmap Q2 2025
Zashi Improvement:
The primary aim of Q2 for the Cellular Crew is to ship Zashi 2.0 by the tip of April. Totally redesigned residence display screen, app navigation, onboarding expertise, and common 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 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 that 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 vital purposeful updates which we goal to ship in Q3 – akin to Auto-shielding, Tackle 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 effectively. We additionally plan to concentrate on finalizing designs for multi-account help and updating the Zashi web site in April and in Could. Potential priorities we wish to get to if we’ve additional time embody coinholder polling (additionally relying on the dev fund distribution mechanism choices the neighborhood is about to make), or seed phrase backup.
Zashi Discovery:
In Q2 2025, in response to robust consumer 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 could emerge as a key analysis precedence within the second half of the quarter. Nevertheless, progress on this space is dependent upon a number of exterior variables that may take time to make clear.
Constructed-in on- and off-ramps are one other incessantly 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 international locations. We’ll additionally proceed assessing different on- and off-ramp choices, akin to Coinbase and debit card integrations.
Improved key restoration strategies may additionally be explored.
It’s vital to notice that not all options and integrations listed underneath “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 concentrate on the work that’s wanted now to offer a sound base for future protocol growth, in live performance with the Zcash neighborhood 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!
