According to BlockBeats, on April 13th, Josh Swihart, founder of the Zcash Open Development Lab (ZODL), the core development team of Zcash, released the latest progress of Zcash, proposing a strategic direction centered on "post-quantum security, scalability, and user experience." Using the Artemis II lunar mission as a metaphor, he emphasized achieving seemingly impossible goals through technological breakthroughs. The ZODL team stated that Zcash is entering its "Zcash IV" phase, which will build an infrastructure similar to a "lunar base" to support the secure scaling of protocols and applications to billions of users, while simultaneously promoting the vision of privacy-preserving transactions without large-scale financial surveillance.
On the product and technology front, ZODL continues to iterate, with version 3.3.x already available on iOS and Android. This version adds hardware wallet connection management, SDK upgrades, and several user experience optimizations, while also advancing key developments such as Keystone wallet functionality and address system upgrades (ZIP 316, UIVK/UFVK). Meanwhile, the Zcash core team has fixed several system issues and is advancing the development of the Zallet alpha version, while also strengthening unified address specifications and wallet interaction experience, laying the foundation for future scalability and performance improvements.
Furthermore, ZODL disclosed its continued application data growth and participated in the Stablecoin Privacy Summit to strengthen industry cooperation. However, due to escalating regulatory and network restrictions, ZODL has been temporarily removed from Russian app stores. The team emphasized that privacy is not an option, but a fundamental requirement of the digital age, and will continue to accelerate delivery to promote the adoption of ZEC and the development of its ecosystem.
At its core, the Zcash Open Development Lab is developing an open, self-custodied private finance platform designed to expand the interoperability of the ecosystem through collaboration and bring protected ZEC trading to the global mainstream market.
