zips

Specifications and Zcash Improvement Proposals for the Zcash cryptocurrency.

Contributing

Participation in the Zcash project is subject to a Code of Conduct.

The Zcash protocol is documented in its Protocol Specification.

To start contributing, first read ZIP 0 which documents the ZIP process. Then clone this repo from GitHub, and start adding your draft ZIP with a filename matching draft-*.rst. Use make to check that you are using correct reStructuredText syntax, and double-check the generated draft-*.html file before filing a Pull Request.

NU3 ZIPs

This is the list of ZIPs planned to be included in the NU3 upgrade (around Q2 2020).

• ZIP 213: Shielded Coinbase
• ZIP 221: FlyClient - Consensus-Layer Changes

License

Unless otherwise stated in this repository’s individual files, the contents of this repository are released under the terms of the MIT license. See COPYING for more information or see https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT .

Index of ZIPs

ZIP	Title	Status
0	ZIP Process	Active
32	Shielded Hierarchical Deterministic Wallets	Final
143	Transaction Signature Verification for Overwinter	Final
173	Bech32 Format	Final
200	Network Upgrade Mechanism	Final
201	Network Peer Management for Overwinter	Final
202	Version 3 Transaction Format for Overwinter	Final
203	Transaction Expiry	Final
205	Deployment of the Sapling Network Upgrade	Final
206	Deployment of the Blossom Network Upgrade	Final
207	Funding Streams	Draft
208	Shorter Block Target Spacing	Final
209	Prohibit Negative Shielded Value Pool	Final
210	Sapling Anchor Deduplication within Transactions	Draft
213	Shielded Coinbase	Implemented (zcashd)
214	Consensus rules for a Zcash Development Fund	Draft
221	FlyClient - Consensus-Layer Changes	Proposed
243	Transaction Signature Verification for Sapling	Final
250	Deployment of the Heartwood Network Upgrade	Draft
251	Deployment of the ${NU4} Network Upgrade	Draft
308	Sprout to Sapling Migration	Final
310	Security Properties of Sapling Viewing Keys	Draft
401	Addressing mempool denial-of-service	Final
1001	Keep the Block Distribution as Initially Defined — 90% to Miners	Obsolete
1002	Opt-in Donation Feature	Obsolete
1003	20% Split Evenly Between the ECC and the Zcash Foundation, and a Voting System Mandate	Obsolete
1004	Miner-Directed Dev Fund	Obsolete
1005	Zcash Community Funding System	Obsolete
1006	Development Fund of 10% to a 2-of-3 Multisig with Community-Involved Third Entity	Obsolete
1007	Enforce Development Fund Commitments with a Legal Charter	Obsolete
1008	Fund ECC for Two More Years	Obsolete
1009	Five-Entity Strategic Council	Obsolete
1010	Compromise Dev Fund Proposal With Diverse Funding Streams	Obsolete
1011	Decentralize the Dev Fee	Obsolete
1012	Dev Fund to ECC + ZF + Major Grants	Obsolete
1013	Keep It Simple, Zcashers: 10% to ECC, 10% to ZF	Obsolete
1014	Establishing a Dev Fund for ECC, ZF, and Major Grants	Proposed
guide	{Something Short and To the Point}	Draft