rewrite this title ECC Roadmap: Q2 2025

ECC is committed to deliver digital cash through privacy protocol (Zcash) and product innovation. We believe this is the best strategy to support our mission of economic freedom, including the protection and preservation of individual privacy and consent, security, and human dignity.

Our ability to affect momentum requires agility and flexibility, and therefore, our roadmap is directive and unrestrained — not fixed, not rigid. As new information emerges, as we learn, we will improvise. As market conditions and other factors impact ECC revenue (positively or negatively), we will re-tune our approach, refocus our efforts, and step on the gas. We will move quickly, and strike where there is opportunity.

The ECC roadmap will be updated quarterly, along with objectives and timelines, and we welcome your participation. If you have skills that can help us, we’d love to work with you. Twice a year, we’ll invite Zcash community developers to meet with us in person, to help us plan and adapt.

ECC Roadmap Q2 2025

Zashi Development:

The first goal of Q2 for the Mobile Team is to deliver Zashi 2.0 by the end of April. Fully redesigned home screen, app navigation, onboarding experience, and general wallet experience truly calls for a major version bump! In addition to the redesign, we are also working to get in support for transaction submission over Tor, which would be a major security update.

DEXes in Zashi are going to be the next priority once Zashi 2.0 is released. The goal is to implement support for transparent swaps with Maya DEX and Near Intents platform. We’re aware that Zashi users have been waiting for DEX support for a long time, and we want to make sure Zashi will unlock this capability for them as soon as possible. We are looking forward to working with the Maya and Near teams.

While prioritizing the DEX support, we had to push forward some important functional updates which we aim to deliver in Q3 – such as Auto-shielding, Address rotation, Export funds feature, Multi-account support or Seed phrase backup.

Zashi Design:

Zashi Product Design is tirelessly supporting all the development requirements, so UX/UI for transparent swaps and cross-chain payments inside Zashi are going to be the biggest priority for this quarter as well. We also plan to focus on finalizing designs for multi-account support and updating the Zashi website in April and in May. Potential priorities we would like to get to if we have extra time include coinholder polling (also depending on the dev fund distribution mechanism decisions the community is about to make), or seed phrase backup.

Zashi Discovery:

In Q2 2025, in response to strong user demand, ECC’s product marketing research will prioritize decentralized exchange (DEX) integrations. This includes a deeper exploration of Maya and NEAR Intents integrations to enable cross-chain payments and potentially ZEC swaps within Zashi.

While DEX support will remain the primary focus throughout Q2, Zashi Vault may emerge as a key research priority in the second half of the quarter. However, progress in this area depends on several external variables that will take time to clarify.

Built-in on- and off-ramps are another frequently requested feature for Zashi. In light of that, we’ll evaluate a potential integration with Banxa—a global payments infrastructure provider that enables seamless fiat-to-crypto conversions using local payment methods across multiple countries. We’ll also continue assessing other on- and off-ramp options, such as Coinbase and debit card integrations. 

Improved key recovery methods may also be explored.

It’s important to note that not all features and integrations listed under “Discovery” in the Zashi vNext section of the roadmap will be selected for development. 

Protocol: 

ECC’s protocol engineering efforts in the next quarter and beyond will focus on the work that is needed now to provide a sound base for future protocol development, in concert with the Zcash community and developers at Zcash Foundation, Qedit, Shielded Labs, Zingo Labs, and others.

The primary emphasis of ECC’s engineering work in this quarter will be on Zcashd deprecation and the deployment of Zcash Shielded Assets.

For more information please see a detailed breakdown of the ECC Protocol Engineering Roadmap by R&D Engineering Manger Daira-Emma Hopwood, highlighting ZSAs, zcashd deprecation, memo bundles, scalable liberated payments, governance, quantum resilience, supporting a PoS transition, & more!