The Technical Road Ahead

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Discussion lists concrete short‑term moves: add an explicit fee field (about +4 bytes) to transactions, redesign memos to allow memo decoupling (longer/multi-part memos to ease exchange/travel‑rule workflows), and finish deprecating zcashd by shipping full Zebra wallet/backends and the Zebra launcher (already produced). FROST reaches a stable crate and a simple FROST relay server is prototyped to bootstrap multisig. Zcash Shielded Assets need wallet support and testnets; recursion and post‑quantum migration are flagged as medium‑term priorities.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 5:00NU6 Discussion
3. 13:59Would Zcash benefit from an independent Zcash core engineering team?
4. 26:50Tasks required to deprecate zcashd
5. 28:06Is NU6 going to activate with the halving?
6. 28:37ZSAs and memo changes, timing around NU6
7. 31:35Vanilla ZSAs
8. 32:45ZSAs, memos and the Travel Rule compliance
9. 36:04Wish list items for NU7
10. 43:34Break
11. 50:19Capabilities Zcash needs to be relevant and cutting-edge in the ZK space
12. 51:27Speed versus privacy
13. 54:08ZIP 320, transparent exchange addresses
14. 57:37Adopting FROST into Zcash
15. 58:55Simple peer-to-peer server to carry messages between participants
16. 59:57How is Bitcoin multisig implemented?
17. 1:00:44FROST usability, potential improvements to make it more useful
18. 1:04:34Implementation and design problems with zcashd
19. 1:08:44Can we add the transaction fee to lightwalletd gRPC protocol to solve the lightwallet problem for historical transactions?
20. 1:10:30Pet projects for Zcash in the next 10 years
21. 1:13:25zk-login, zk-send, liberated payments, identity on the blockchain
22. 1:18:48What applications can you imagine building on the protocol today or future?
23. 1:23:06Recursion
24. 1:28:55Where do you see Zcash in the next 25 years?

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