ECC is dedicated to ship digital money via privateness protocol (Zcash) and product innovation. We consider that is the most effective 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 capability to have an effect on momentum requires agility and adaptability, and due to this fact, our roadmap is directive and unrestrained — not fastened, not inflexible. As new info emerges, as we study, we are going to improvise. As market situations and different components 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 might 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 yr, 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 objective of Q2 for the Cell Crew is to ship Zashi 2.0 by the top of April. Absolutely redesigned residence display, app navigation, onboarding expertise, and normal 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 need to be certain that Zashi will unlock this functionality for them as quickly as doable. We’re trying ahead to working with the Maya and Close to groups.
Whereas prioritizing the DEX assist, we needed to push ahead some essential purposeful updates which we intention to ship in Q3 – corresponding to Auto-shielding, Handle 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 most important precedence for this quarter as effectively. We additionally plan to concentrate on finalizing designs for multi-account assist and updating the Zashi web site in April and in Might. Potential priorities we want to get to if now we have further time embrace 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 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 could emerge as a key analysis precedence within the second half of the quarter. Nonetheless, progress on this space depends upon a number of exterior variables that can take time to make clear.
Constructed-in on- and off-ramps are one other ceaselessly requested function 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, corresponding to Coinbase and debit card integrations.
Improved key restoration strategies may be explored.
It’s essential to notice that not all options and integrations listed underneath “Discovery” within the Zashi vNext part of the roadmap might 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 group and builders at Zcash Basis, Qedit, Shielded Labs, Zingo Labs, and others.
The first emphasis of ECC’s engineering work on this quarter might 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!
