Shielded wallets using Zakura Common and full nodes such as Zakura can benefit from Zcash’s new cryptography stack, according to Zcash cofounder Sean Bowe.
“Shielded wallets that use Zakura Common, and full nodes like Zakura itself, all benefit,” Zcash cofounder Sean Bowe said in an X post.
Zcash scaling targets wallets and transaction processing
The changes do not require an upgrade to the Zcash network. Wallet developers can adopt the open-source libraries on the network as it exists today. Zakura has already migrated to the new stack in version 1.3.0, while Vizor Wallet is among the first wallets to implement it.
Zcash’s scaling challenge involves more than the speed at which its blockchain produces blocks. When Zakura launched in July, its developers set a long-term goal of supporting more than 50,000 private transactions per second, roughly matching the scale of major card networks. They also said existing wallet software was limited to about one transaction per second.
CoinDesk reported at the time that the plan addressed multiple bottlenecks, including the speed at which nodes verify transactions and the amount of data wallets must download.
The new cryptography stack targets another bottleneck: the time a user’s device needs to construct a private payment.
Zakura said wallets should also synchronize faster with the new libraries. Full nodes are expected to benefit from faster transaction verification and fewer orphaned blocks. The team said its software can already support the 25-second block times proposed for Zcash’s next major upgrade, NU7.
