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Developer Libraries

2018.06.26 13:00-14:00 Jack (Str4d) Grigg

The workshop was mainly a discussion on what kind of libraries and tools are needed in the ZCash ecosystem

The state of ZCash Libraries now:

  • Zcash libraries are mostly ported from Bitcoin ones -- Libraries with t-address support

    • Bitcore
    • python-bitcoinlib
    • z-nomp -- Shielded Addresses --- Nothing!

  • Most of the codes are in Rust -- Librustzcash --- Libwallet-zcash ---- What functionalities do we want it to do? --- Also used in Zcash Fullnode

  • Discussion on what do we need? -- In-browser Signing / Creation of transactions -- cross-language tools -- Need for a curated list of dev tools -- APIs for humans and machines

  • Back to where dev tools are required: -- Low friction - Convenience: --- Browser --- Docker --- Packages with every language (npm, pip)

  • Operations required for such libraries to do: -- Address creation --- ZIP32 -- Address (key) Management -- Signing --- Multi-signature Architecture -- Proving -- Payment detection -- UTXO Management -- Serialization