ECC units aims and planning by January 2024

Now and thru the top of January 2024, Electrical Coin Co. (ECC) aims heart on delivering an improved ZEC consumer expertise, primarily by the Zashi pockets. Throughout groups — Product; Engineering; PeopleOps; and Communications and Advocacy — ECC staff are targeted on work that both instantly contributes to the pockets or indirectly makes ZEC and Zashi adoption extra viable.

Background: ECC makes use of an OKR course of for prioritizing and delivering measurable work on four-month cycles. In October, groups met and finalized planning for T3 2023-24 (October-January).

Priorities had been developed to perform or make significant progress on the next: 

1. Launch the subsequent model of the Zashi app together with a brand new UX and UI
2. Transition extra tasks to the broader Zcash neighborhood so ECC can deal with constructing Zashi, beginning with the Decentralizing Zcash Digital effort. 
3. Take significant steps within the effort to transition Zcash from proof of labor (PoW) to proof of stake (PoS), Zashi’s eventual consensus mechanism, by publishing a design with safety arguments, and a protocol simulator.
4. Preserve coverage efforts to make sure Zashi and Zcash are (1) accessible and usable by individuals in the US and (2) thought-about socially helpful. Proceed internet hosting notable coverage occasions and publishing episodes of the PGP for Crypto Podcast.
5. Help choose ecosystem groups and tasks that instantly profit Zashi customers
   1. Help Courageous’s integration of Zcash and encrypted media/recordsdata.
   2. Help Edge, Unstoppable, and Nighthawk’s use of the ECC cell pockets SDKs.
   3. Construct and/or enhance Zashi options (e.g., implementing ZIP-317 and Orchard).

Every ECC crew has constructed their OKRs to help these firm aims.