Zcash Improvement Proposals
.. Title: Specifications and Zcash Improvement Proposals
Zcash Improvement Proposals (ZIPs) are the way to:
Zcash cryptocurrency <https://z.cash/>
__ and their rationale,The authors of a ZIP are responsible for building consensus within the community and documenting / addressing dissenting opinions.
Anyone can write a ZIP! We encourage community contributions and decentralization
of work on the Zcash protocol. If you’d like to bounce ideas off people before formally
writing a ZIP, we encourage it! Visit the ZcashCommunity Discord chat <https://discord.gg/kdjfvps>
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to talk about your idea.
Participation in the Zcash project is subject to a Code of Conduct <https://github.com/zcash/zcash/blob/master/code_of_conduct.md>
__.
The Zcash protocol is documented in its Protocol Specification <protocol/protocol.pdf>
__.
To start contributing, first read ZIP 0 <zip-0000.rst>
__ which documents the ZIP process.
Then clone this repo <https://github.com/zcash/zips>
__ from GitHub, and start adding
your draft ZIP, formatted either as reStructuredText or as Markdown.
For example, if using reStructuredText, use a filename matching draft-*.rst
.
Use make
to check that you are using correct
reStructuredText <https://docutils.sourceforge.io/rst.html>
__ or
Markdown <https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#pandocs-markdown>
__ syntax,
and double-check the generated draft-*.html
file before filing a Pull Request.
See here <protocol/README.rst>
__ for the project dependencies.
This is the list of ZIPs relevant to the NU5 Upgrade, which activated on 31st May 2022 <https://z.cash/upgrade/nu5/>
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ZIP 32: Shielded Hierarchical Deterministic Wallets <zip-0032.rst>
__ (updated)ZIP 203: Transaction Expiry <zip-0203.rst>
__ (updated)ZIP 209: Prohibit Negative Shielded Chain Value Pool Balances <zip-0209.rst>
__ (updated)ZIP 212: Allow Recipient to Derive Ephemeral Secret from Note Plaintext <zip-0212.rst>
__ (updated)ZIP 213: Shielded Coinbase <zip-0213.rst>
__ (updated)ZIP 216: Require Canonical Jubjub Point Encodings <zip-0216.rst>
__ZIP 221: FlyClient - Consensus-Layer Changes <zip-0221.rst>
__ (updated)ZIP 224: Orchard Shielded Protocol <zip-0224.rst>
__ZIP 225: Version 5 Transaction Format <zip-0225.rst>
__ZIP 239: Relay of Version 5 Transactions <zip-0239.rst>
__ZIP 244: Transaction Identifier Non-Malleability <zip-0244.rst>
__ZIP 252: Deployment of the NU5 Network Upgrade <zip-0252.rst>
__ZIP 316: Unified Addresses and Unified Viewing Keys <zip-0316.rst>
__ZIP 401: Addressing Mempool Denial-of-Service <zip-0401.rst>
__ (clarified)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 <COPYING.rst>
__ for more information or see
https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT .
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