ECC is dedicated to ship digital money by privateness protocol (Zcash) and product innovation. We imagine that is the very best technique to help our mission of financial freedom, together with the safety and preservation of particular person privateness and consent, safety, and human dignity.
Our potential to have an effect on momentum requires agility and suppleness, and due to this fact, our roadmap is directive and unrestrained — not mounted, 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 are going to transfer rapidly, and strike the place there’s alternative.
The ECC roadmap will likely be up to date quarterly, together with targets and timelines, and we welcome your participation. In case you have expertise that may assist us, we’d like to work with you. Twice a 12 months, we’ll invite Zcash neighborhood builders to satisfy with us in individual, to assist us plan and adapt.
ECC Roadmap Q2 2025
Zashi Growth:
The primary purpose of Q2 for the Cellular Crew is to ship Zashi 2.0 by the top of April. Absolutely redesigned house display, app navigation, onboarding expertise, and common pockets expertise actually requires a serious model bump! Along with the redesign, we’re additionally working to get in help for transaction submission over Tor, which might be a serious safety replace.
DEXes in Zashi are going to be the subsequent precedence as soon as Zashi 2.0 is launched. The purpose is to implement help for clear swaps with Maya DEX and Close to Intents platform. We’re conscious that Zashi customers have been ready for DEX help for a very long time, and we wish to ensure Zashi will unlock this functionality for them as quickly as attainable. We’re trying ahead to working with the Maya and Close to groups.
Whereas prioritizing the DEX help, we needed to push ahead some necessary purposeful updates which we goal to ship in Q3 – akin to Auto-shielding, Deal with rotation, Export funds characteristic, Multi-account help 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 properly. We additionally plan to give attention to finalizing designs for multi-account help and updating the Zashi web site in April and in Could. Potential priorities we wish to get to if we’ve got additional time embody coinholder polling (additionally relying on the dev fund distribution mechanism selections the neighborhood is about to make), or seed phrase backup.
Zashi Discovery:
In Q2 2025, in response to robust person demand, ECC’s product advertising analysis will prioritize decentralized alternate (DEX) integrations. This features a deeper exploration of Maya and NEAR Intents integrations to allow cross-chain funds and doubtlessly ZEC swaps inside Zashi.
Whereas DEX help will stay the first focus all through Q2, Zashi Vault might emerge as a key analysis precedence within the second half of the quarter. Nonetheless, progress on this space will depend on a number of exterior variables that can take time to make clear.
Constructed-in on- and off-ramps are one other continuously requested characteristic for Zashi. In gentle of that, we’ll consider a possible integration with Banxa—a world funds infrastructure supplier that permits seamless fiat-to-crypto conversions utilizing native fee strategies throughout a number of international locations. We’ll additionally proceed assessing different on- and off-ramp choices, akin to Coinbase and debit card integrations.
Improved key restoration strategies might also be explored.
It’s necessary to notice that not all options and integrations listed underneath “Discovery” within the Zashi vNext part of the roadmap will likely be chosen for growth.
Protocol:
ECC’s protocol engineering efforts within the subsequent quarter and past will give attention to the work that’s wanted now to supply a sound base for future protocol growth, in live performance with the Zcash neighborhood and builders at Zcash Basis, Qedit, Shielded Labs, Zingo Labs, and others.
The first emphasis of ECC’s engineering work on this quarter will likely 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!
