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Zcash Sapling
Activated at block 419200, mined October 29, 2018 02:15 UTC+00:00
What is Sapling?
Improvements
How do I upgrade?
Additional Information
What is Sapling?
What is Sapling?
Sapling is a network upgrade that introduces significant efficiency improvements for shielded transactions that will pave the way for broad mobile, exchange and vendor adoption of Zcash shielded addresses.Improvements
Performance for shielded addresses
Payments involving the new Sapling z-addresses can be constructed in as little as a few seconds and with only 40 megabytes of memory.Decoupled spend authority
Allows the hardware that constructs the zero-knowledge proof to be independent from the hardware that signs for the transaction.Improved keys
Full viewing keys allow owners of shielded addresses the ability to view incoming and outgoing transaction details without exposing their private spending key.How do I upgrade?
How do I upgrade?
Update your Zcash client to 2.0.0 or above. Nodes which haven’t updated will exit with an error message requesting an update prior to the upgrade. The only way you will miss the upgrade is if you are running your own full node and manually configured your client to continue running the legacy software.
Users upgrading from earlier 1.x releases will need to download the additional Sapling parameters which are just under 800MB in size.
For support of Sapling in the RPC interface, you will need version 2.0.1 or above.
Additional Information
Additional information
- What’s New in Sapling
- Zcash Roadmap
- Network upgrade user FAQ
- Network upgrade integration guide
- Current stable version of the zcashd client
- Sapling Protocol Specification
- ZIP 205: Deployment of the Sapling Network Upgrade
- ZIP 243: Transaction Signature Verification for Sapling
- Sapling Turnstile
- Sapling Blog Archive
- All Upgrades
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