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Ahyehyɛde ahorow
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Ahyehyɛde ahorow
Nhyehyɛe · Ɔhwɛsoɔ · Nnipa a wɔboa
Valar Group yɛ nwumakuo a wɔn ho nni mu na wɔhwɛ sɛ wɔbɛtrɛw Zcash, ahyɛ sikasesafoɔ nniso den, ne sɛ ɛbɛboa ma ahintasɛm no ayɛ adwuma yie.
Ne adwuma no fa protocol-level mfitiase: private token holder voting, high performance full node software, wallet sync technology ne network upgrades a ɛma shielded Zcash tumi di dwuma wɔ kɛse mu.
Ahyehyɛde no botae ne sɛ ɛbɛma ZEC difo kwan a wɔbɛfa so akyerɛ wɔn apɛdeɛ wɔ kokoam, de dwumadie ahodoɔ ama node operatorfoɔ ntɛmntɛm na wɔanya tumi pii, na wɔde mfiri ma wallets a ɛhwɛ dwumafoɔ ahobanbɔ ho bere koro mu ka bɔ bi to hɔ.
Valar Group na Dev Ojha (ValarDragon) di so, ɔno nso yɛ Osmosis fo a ɔsan de ne ho bɔɔ Cosmos kuo no mu baako. Wɔ mfe du atwam yi wayɛ adwuma wɔ zk-SNARKs, BFT consensus, ɛne DeFi nhyehyɛeɛ ahorow nyinaa ase.
The group’s public work in Zcash became prominent as the ecosystem shifted toward independent protocol teams after the 2026 reorganization of core development. Valar Group emerged as one of the organizations building the next generation of Zcash infrastructure alongside Project Tachyon, Shielded Labs, ZODL, and the Zcash Foundation.
A recurring theme in its work is that Zcash’s privacy properties should extend beyond payments. If holders are asked to vote on issuance, block times, or network-upgrade scope, they should be able to do so from shielded balances without revealing identities, balances, or individual votes. That requirement led Valar Group to design and ship a dedicated coinholder voting chain.
Saa ara nso na ne nsunsuansoɔ no yɛ adwuma wɔ node, sync dwumadie mu. N'adane a ɛyɛ den, wallet sintɔn kakra, ɛne nokorɛ sɛ obi bɛtumi ayɛ biribi de adi dwuma ma sika ankasa bi a wobetumi afa so atwitwa ho aka nea wɔde di dwuma wɔ network-scale mmom sen sɛ ɛsom bo korabea nkoara.
Valar kuo no dawurubɔ nkrataa ne dwumadie a wɔyɛ kyerɛ sɛ wɔn ani da Zcash ho kwan a:
Nhyehyɛe no yɛ adwuma sɛ nea ɔde ne ho to so, ɛnyɛ sɛ protocol wura. Protocol nsakrae da so ara nam ZIPs, implementation, review, and community signaling so kɔ. Valar Group dwuma ne sε wɔbεyε nhyehyεεde a εma saa mmrכ yi yε yie na wͻn de di dwuma ma wɔn nyinaa adi dwuma yiye.
Valar kuo no yɛ adwuma fa nneɛma anan ho.
Zcash mfa automatic on-chain protocol control nni dwuma. Coinholder polls yɛ advisory signals a ɛma broader rough consensus process nya ahoɔden. Valar Group na ɛbɔɔ Tokenholder Voting Chain no sɛnea ɛbɛyɛ a wɔbɛtumi ato saa nsɛnkyerɛne yi afiri akontabuo ho bere a wɔnnyi voter identity anaa ankorankoro vote size adi nkyerɛ obiara.
Mprenpren adwinsa no de:
Botae no ne sɛ wɔde nhyehyɛe a wotumi de di dwuma bio, wɔhwɛ so yɛ adwuma na wobetumi ayɛ bi ama ahyehyɛde afoforo ma wɔn ankasa atumi adi ho dwuma.
Valar Group ne Project Tachyon yɛ adwuma wɔ Zakura, a ɛyɛ Zcash node ma no nyinaa na w'atwe afiri Zebra codebase so. zcashd Users. (Ɔwɔ hɔ dada)
Adwuma a ɛfa asisifo ho no bi ne:
Shielded wallets historically have to scan large amounts of chain data. Valar Group develops PIR systems so wallets can fetch the proofs they need without downloading full nullifier sets or revealing which notes they care about.
Saa adwuma yi da adi wɔ voting stack ne wallet-sync nhwehwɛmu mu. Kuw no nso de wɔn ho ahyɛ wallet fam ahoɔdzen dwumadie, a ebi ne multi-server transaction submission na server-selection nkɔsoɔ a wɔde di dwuma wɔ ZODL's mobile stack so.
Valar Group yɛ ahyehyɛde a wɔkaa wɔn ho asɛm sɛ wɔbɛboa Ironwood bere a Orchard amansin no mu yɛɛ basaa akyi. Ironwood de apon foforo baa hɔ, na ɔtoo mfitiaseɛ Orchard mpoma no ano wɔ ahwehwɛ bi ase ma ɛsan sii kwan so maa nnipa ankasa huu nea ɛyɛe a wɔde nneɛma baeɛ. Valar ne Project Tachyon, Shielded Labs, ZODL, ne Zcash Foundation boom yɛɛ adwuma faa nhomasua, adwene-gyesɛm mmamu, ɛne abɔde nhyehyɛe (ecosystem coordination) ho.
Kuw no nso de wɔn ho hyɛ NU7 scoping, testnet operation ne ZIP editing mu. Dev Ojha na wɔaka sɛ ɔyɛ ZIP editor.
Shielded Vote yɛ Valar Group no nnwumakuo a wɔn di dwuma ma Zcash. Wɔn a wɔwɔ sika bi wɔ ne mu tumi de bɔ bosea bere a wonnyae sɛ wɔbɛkyerɛ nnipa dodow anaa wobedi nkontaa akyerɛ wɔn din.
Nneɛma atitiriw bi ne:
Wɔ August 2026, Valar Group ne Project Tachyon de saa stack yi dii dwuma maa NU7 coinholder vote. Eligibility required spendable shielded ZEC in Ironwood at mainnet height 3,459,350. Voting ran from August 25 through September 14,2026, with a 1,000,000 ZEC participation threshold for the result to be treated as representative. Nsɛmmisa no kaa NSM issuance smoothing, reissuance timing, Sprout/v4 deprecation, 25-second block times, and NU7 scope/readiness ho nsɛm pii.
Default-chain coordination de 2-of-5 multisig di dwuma wɔ Project Tachyon, Valar Group, Zcash Foundation, ZODL ne Shielded Labs ntam. Afoforo a wɔde yɛ validator set no kura nea ɛhia biara ma wɔn ho; obiara ntumi nhwehwɛ ankorankoro votes (votes) bio na ama wɔatumi anya akontaahyɛde awieɛ no.
Aban a w'ɔdi dwuma ne auditors no gyinabea yɛ:
Zakura yɛ Zcash ne nyinaa ano a wɔ ayɔ mu sɛ nkabom bi a ɛda Valar Group ne Project Tachyon ntam. Ɛfiri Zebra na ɛde sync, native pruning, snapshot bootstrapping, asensɛndeɛ ho nimdeɛ ɛne kasa ahodoɔ ka ho. zcashd Compatibility paths, ne experimental high-performance P2P adwuma.
Zcash Foundation kaa sɛ wɔn ani agye ho, na wɔama Zebra kwan so ma no ayɛ yie ama nnipa a w'atwe wɔn ho afiri adwuma mu atumi anya nkɔso. Afei nso Zakura adwumayɛfo bebree de wɔn ahodeɛ nyinaa aboa ahyɛ dwumadie yi ase dadaada.
Valar Group hwɛ PIR dwumadie ne nwomakorabea ahorow so wɔ ɔhaw mmienu a ɛne no bɔ abira ho:
Eyi yɛ Shielded Vote ne ɔdan a wɔgyina so ma wɔn ankasa UX.
Valar Group ka Ironwood ho a w'ayε no June 2026 mu, na ɔboa ma wɔyɛɛ nhyehyεε ne adwuma maa amanfo. Ɔsan nso yɛɛ NU7 testnet mfitiaseɛ nnwuma bi te sε join scripts ne badwam nkwanta ahorow a wɔgye wɔn tenabea wɔ nnwumakuo foforo so. nu7.valargroup.dev.
no mu a, na valargroup GitHub ahyehyɛde no tintim abatoɔ ne node stack sɛ ɔmanfo nkuraaseɛ, a ebi yɛ:
vote-sdk application-specific chain for private on-chain voting (Ɔwɔ sɛ yɛ de kɔma obiara a ɔtumi ma ne ti so)zcash_voting voting library, proofs, storage, and FFI a wɔabɔ ho ban firi ɔmofoɔ no nkyɛnvoting-circuits Halo2 asԑmhyԑde ne abatoɔ amansin ahorowvote-nullifier-pir PIR ma nullifier proofs non-membership (N) yɛ nkae sɛ obi nni mu a ɛkyerɛ no kwantoken-holder-voting-config wallet service-discovery configuration (Ɔsom a wɔde hwehwɛ sika nkontaabu)zebra Valar Group's Zebra/Zakura development fork (Ɔkwan a wɔfa so de yɛ adwuma)Valar Group na odi wɔn anim. Public team pages a ɛne Zakura di nsɛ no din ne engineers a wɔdi dwuma ma Valar:
Zakura ankasa ne Project Tachyon, a Sean Bowe di anim no bom yɛ adwuma. Ahyehyɛde mmienu yi bɔ mu yɛ adwumaden nanso wɔn nyinaa da so ara wɔ hɔ.
Valar Group yɛ adwuma sɛ nwomasua ahyehyɛde a ɛnni ne ho. Wɔmfa wɔn ho nhyɛ Zcash Foundation, ZODL, Shielded Labs anaa Zcash Community Grants mu.
Wɔ abatoɔ-nkrataabu mu no, Valar kuo yɛ nnwumakuo a wɔhwɛ ma wɔn ho so anum. Saa dwuma yi yɛ ade baako a ɛboa ma wotumi di abatoɔ nhyehyɛe akyi na ɛnyɛ sɛ obi pɛ tumi hwɛ Zcash aban so. Kuw afoforo betumi adi validators anim anaa wɔatumi ayɛ nkontabuo foforo bi ama nnipa anya akwanya de ahwɛ nsɛm a wɔde ato gua.
Nsɛm a aka afa mmara kwan so nnipa, badwafoɔ no anoyie ne wɔn amantam mu nniso ho nni hɔ wɔ nwoma yi mu te sɛ nea wɔyɛe wɔ Zcash ahyehyɛdeɛ ahodoɔ bi a na ɛwɔ tete.
Wɔ 2026 mfinimfini no, Valar Group ne Project Tachyon ho nsɛm a wɔkaae sɛ wɔde wɔn sika na ɛboa maa nnipa. Ɛsono ZODL's venture round anaa Shielded Labs mmarahyɛ mu nkontaabu ahorow no, valar kuw nnyaa ɔfɛmfoɔ din pɔtee biara anaasɛ akwanside nhyehyɛe bi mmaeɛ.
Saa ntoboa kwan no ma kuo no gyina wɔn ankasa nnwumakuo a wɔhwɛ Nhyehyɛeɛ Nkɔso/nkuranhyɛ akwan so, nanso ɛno nso kyerɛ sɛ ɔmanfo ntumi nhu sika dodow ne baabi a wonya.
Valar Group yɛ nnwumakuw a wɔn ho nni mu wɔ protocol nhyehyɛe no bi na ɛgyina Zcash 2026 nkɔsoɔ nsunsuanso so. Saa nsunsonso yi:
Its distinctive contribution is making shielded governance operational. The NU7 vote is the first major use of that stack: holders prove Ironwood balances, wallets such as ZODL and Vizor can integrate the flow, and anyone can audit the tally without learning how a particular holder voted.
Saa ara nso na, sɛ wallets ntumi nyɛ adwuma a, private voting yɛ mfasoɔ kakra. Valar Group bu governance, node software ne wallet infrastructure no sɛ ɔhaw baako: ma Zcash so tumi di dwuma wɔ amansan mu bere a wɔnnhyehyɛ adwumayɛfoɔ ahoɔden nyinaa wɔ ahyehyɛde biako pɛ mu.