The new full node software adds pruning, snapshot synchronization and zcashd compatibility as the project targets 50,000 transactions per second.
Zcash has released Zakura 1.0.0, a new full node software package built to improve the processing capacity of privacy transactions. Refactored from Zebra, the client includes pruning (discarding unneeded historical data), snapshot synchronization (bootstrapping from a saved network state) and a compatibility mode with the legacy zcashd software. The changes are intended to cut startup time for new nodes to less than two minutes. The effort is led by Zcash zero-knowledge cryptography founding member Sean Bowe and Valar Group head Dev Ojha, and is positioned as groundwork for scaling Zcash transaction throughput to 50,000 transactions per second, a level the project says would be comparable to Visa and Mastercard.