zips

Specifications and Zcash Improvement Proposals for the Zcash cryptocurrency.

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

Current NU3 ZIPs for consideration

This is the current list of ZIPs that could be included in 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	Aug 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

Unless otherwise stated in this repository's individual files, the contents of this repository are released under the terms of the MIT license. See COPYING for more information or see http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.

Index of ZIPs

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