Project Tachyon and Valar Group released the open-source Zcash full node client, built on the Zcash Foundation’s Zebra, with faster mainnet sync, native pruning, snapshots and compatibility for existing infrastructure ahead of Ironwood.
Zcash has officially released Zakura, a new open-source full node client developed by Project Tachyon and Valar Group and built on the Zcash Foundation’s Zebra. The software supports the upcoming Ironwood (NU6.3) network upgrade, set to activate around July 28, and is positioned as a base for future Zcash protocol upgrades including quantum recoverability and recursive proofs. In benchmark figures cited for the release, Zakura synchronized with Zcash mainnet in about 4 hours 20 minutes versus 20 hours 46 minutes for Zebra, pointing to materially faster node deployment. The client also adds native block pruning, node snapshots and a zcashd compatibility mode designed to ease migration for existing wallets, exchanges and other infrastructure.