Zakura Common Targets Zcash’s Wallet-Side Privacy Bottleneck

In the latest Zcash news, Zakura released Zakura Common on August 31, an open-source cryptography toolkit the team says reduces shielded Zcash transaction creation from more than three seconds to under 200 milliseconds in some cases, according to Zakura’s announcement.

The team says mobile proof generation is more than 14 times faster, addressing one of the biggest delays users face when sending private ZEC.

Desktop transaction creation is more than five times faster under the new stack, according to Zakura. The team also reports Sinsemilla hashing improvements exceeding 21 times, trial decryption that is more than 1.5 times faster, and zk-SNARK verification that is between four and eight times faster.

Wallet developers can adopt the open-source libraries without a Zcash network upgrade or consensus change. Zakura has moved its node software to the new stack in its upcoming 1.3.0 release, while Vizor Wallet is among the first to adopt it.

Zcash News: Why the wallet-side delay matters

Shielded Zcash transactions hide the sender, receiver and amount transferred. Before a payment ca