lcwg/meeting-notes/lcwg-dev-84.md

Light Client Working Group Devs Meeting 84

Meeting Date/Time: Thursday, September 5th, 2024 17:00 UTC

Meeting Duration: 60 minutes

Moderator: @decentralistdan - ECC

Attendees: Kris (ECC), Za (Zingo), James (Brave), Kyle (brave), ChainSafe, Conrado (ZF)

Agenda

• Team updates
• How are we doing with problems related to Zebra 1.8.0 tracked on https://github.com/zcash/lightwalletd/issues/497?
• If chainsafe is present, In-Memory Wallet status (https://github.com/zcash/librustzcash/issues/1414)
• Has there been any progress (material or ideas) about the debate of last meetin on “Restore from seed or restore from wallet file?” https://github.com/zcash/zcash/issues/6873

Kris(ECC)

• NU6 testnet upgrade
• back over to wallet side
  • moving test infra from sql lite to backend
  • reorg but related to note comit trees in sqlite

Zingo:

• top priority: implement ZIP320 20th of september

Chainsafe:

• Webzjs
  • memory backend implementation for librustzcash
  • forum update
  • chainsafe & kris to talk about serialization async standardizing ZF:
• zcashd depracation
  • porting RPC tests
  • overall design
  • mapping out work
• FROST
  • working on refresh shares for DKG
• ZEBRA
  • https://github.com/zcash/lightwalletd/issues/497
  • zebra not returning the right call
  • working on fixing the ones that they know cause issues

Brave:

• https://github.com/zcash/zips/pull/899
• ZIP drafter (Kyle)

Has there been any progress (material or ideas) about the debate of last meeting on “Restore from seed or restore from wallet file?”

• https://github.com/zcash/zcash/issues/6873

• from wallet format becasue zcashd has keys not derived from seed restore from wallet backup

• https://github.com/brave-experiments/hardware-backed-webcrypto

• stalled out on testnet (kris)

  • chainfork or all mining power dropped
  • conrado looking into it