What is often lost in the noise is that there are people working relentlessly to push Zcash forward.
Private, trusted, hard money.
On the "inside," I get to see it every day. But you can verify it all.
The Orchard soundness vulnerability was disclosed to our engineers at 11:53 PM on Friday, May 29.
It was fixed in 5 days, requiring both a soft fork and a hard fork. That speed was only possible because the process was already there. Disclosure procedures and coordination channels were already in place. We were prepared.
Then we built the new pool, independently audited, with 60 pull requests of machine-checked proofs. We retired zcashd after a decade and rebuilt the stack:
Zallet, the new wallet, went from alpha to beta. 146 PRs
Zebra was hardened. 296 PRs
Zakura was brought to life. 442 PRs
librustzcash and the mobile SDKs updated. 460 PRs
Indexers were rebuilt.
Zodl rebuilt on top. 238 PRs across iOS and Android
And not just code. Comms. Coordination. Miner and exchange outreach.
To date:
51 people wrote code
1,391 pull requests merged
60 days
No weekends
Wartime mode.
14 of those 51 are ZODL engineers. They authored half the merged changes and 82% of the changes in the protocol and wallet repos.
Every consensus node has moved to zebrad or Zakura. The wallets have not. Some run on a bridge Valar built to buy time. There is still work to be done.
Orchard was fixed in 5 days and replaced in 60.
Ironwood activates in less than 36 hours. Track the migration:
Many people are working not for personal glory or price charts, but because this work is so important.
Freedom isn't free; it must be built.