TechFlow news, July 19, according to CoinDesk, Zcash released the full node software Zakura 1.0.0, a new client refactored based on Zebra, supporting pruning, snapshot sync, and compatibility mode with the legacy zcashd, which can reduce new node startup time to within two minutes. The project is maintained by Zcash zero-knowledge cryptography founding member Sean Bowe and Valar Group head Dev Ojha, aiming to lay the foundation for Zcash's subsequent scaling to throughput capabilities approaching Visa and Mastercard levels.
The report states that Zcash's current privacy transaction architecture still has a significant gap from high throughput goals, so the team is advancing recursive proofs through Project Tachyon to reduce the amount of data required for consensus verification; meanwhile, Valar Group is developing a solution based on Private Information Retrieval to alleviate wallet-side sync bottlenecks. Zakura will also support the Ironwood (NU6.3) upgrade expected to activate on the mainnet on July 28, which aims to fix the supply integrity issues left by the previous Orchard shielded pool proof circuit vulnerability.
