The Technical Road Ahead with ZF, ECC, and QEDIT - ZconV: Zcash Unified 2024

Описание: Members from the Electric Coin Company, QEDIT and the Zcash Foundation will discuss potential technical improvements and challenges coming up in the Zcash Protocol.

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Technical Level: Intermediate

Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
5:00 NU6 Discussion
13:59 Would Zcash benefit from an independent Zcash core engineering team?
26:50 Tasks required to deprecate zcashd
28:06 Is NU6 going to activate with the halving?
28:37 ZSAs and memo changes, timing around NU6
31:35 Vanilla ZSAs
32:45 ZSAs, memos and the Travel Rule compliance
36:04 Wish list items for NU7
43:34 Break
50:19 Capabilities Zcash needs to be relevant and cutting-edge in the ZK space
51:27 Speed versus privacy
54:08 ZIP 320, transparent exchange addresses
57:37 Adopting FROST into Zcash
58:55 Simple peer-to-peer server to carry messages between participants
59:57 How is Bitcoin multisig implemented?
1:00:44 FROST usability, potential improvements to make it more useful
1:04:34 Implementation and design problems with zcashd
1:08:44 Can we add the transaction fee to lightwalletd gRPC protocol to solve the lightwallet problem for historical transactions?
1:10:30 Pet projects for Zcash in the next 10 years
1:10:37 Post-quantum privacy
1:13:25 zk-login, zk-send, liberated payments, identity on the blockchain
1:18:48 What applications can you imagine building on the protocol today or future?
1:23:06 Recursion
1:28:55 Where do you see Zcash in the next 25 years?

Panel Chair:
-Pili Guerra is the Engineering Manager at the Zcash Foundation. She has 20 years of experience working in the tech industry as a software developer, solutions engineer, consultant and project manager. She has previously worked at the Tor Project as a Project Manager for the Tor Browser, Community and UX Teams. Twitter: @mpguerra

Panelists:
-Daira-Emma is the R&D Engineering Manager for ECC, lead author of the Zcash protocol spec, and co-designer of the Zcash shielded protocols, the Halo 2 proof system, and the SPHINCS post-quantum signature scheme. Ze is also an activist for trans and disabled rights and an organiser of Manchester Trans Pride. Bluesky: @daira

-Arya Solhi is a Zebra enthusiast and team member of the Zcash Foundation.

-Jonathan S. Rouach is the co-founder and CEO of QEDIT, offering advanced privacy solutions for blockchain. Before that, he co-founded a blockchain security company (acquired), co-founded the Israeli Bitcoin Association , and co-founded Bits of Gold, the leading cryptocurrency broker in Israel. Jon serves as Executive Director at ZKProof.org, which standardizes Zero-Knowledge Proofs. He is an Electrical Engineer from the Technion, served as an analyst in the Israeli Intelligence, advised the Israel Securities Authority and the World Economic Forum in Davos. Twitter: @jonrouach

-Conrado Gouvêa is a cryptography engineer at the Zcash Foundation, where he participates in the Zebra (a Zcash node implementation) and FROST (a threshold signature scheme) projects. Previously he did research on efficient software implementation of cryptographic algorithms and worked in the industry developing software for cryptographic devices such as tokens and hardware security modules (HSMs). Twitter: @conradoplg

-Kris Nuttycombe is an engineer at the Electric Coin Co.

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