zips

Specifications and Zcash Improvement Proposals for the Zcash cryptocurrency.

Participation in the Zcash project is subject to a Code of Conduct.

NU3 ZIPs for consideration

This is the list of ZIPs that were under consideration for the NU3 upgrade (around ~April 2020).

• Sapling Anchor Deduplication within Transactions
• Disabling Addition of New Value to the Sprout Value Pool
• Add Bolt support
• Shielded Coinbase
• Enable Staked Polling from the Sapling Pool
• Adding MMR Proofs to Block Headers, and their use in the FlyClient Protocol
• Multisig
• Transfer Sapling Ephemeral Secret to Recipient in Note Plaintext

Deadlines for NU4

Event	Date
ZIP draft submission deadline	August 31, 2019
Feature selection done	October 31, 2019
Testnet beta code release	March 31, 2020
Testnet activation	May 31, 2020
Mainnet activation	October 2020

License

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Index of ZIPs

ZIP	Title	Status
0	ZIP Process	Active
32	Shielded Hierarchical Deterministic Wallets	Final
143	Transaction Signature Verification for Overwinter	Final
200	Network Upgrade Mechanism	Final
201	Network Peer Management for Overwinter	Final
202	Version 3 Transaction Format for Overwinter	Final
203	Transaction Expiry	Final
205	Deployment of the Sapling Network Upgrade	Final
206	Deployment of the Blossom Network Upgrade	Draft
~207~	~Split Founders' Reward~	Withdrawn
208	Shorter Block Target Spacing	Implemented
209	Prohibit Negative Shielded Value Pool	Final
210	Sapling Anchor Deduplication within Transactions	Draft
243	Transaction Signature Verification for Sapling	Final
308	Sprout to Sapling Migration	Final
guide	{Something Short and To the Point}	Draft