Zcash Full Node Client Zakura Released, Supporting Ironwood Network Upgrade

The new Zcash full node client Zakura has officially been released, supporting the Ironwood (NU6.3) network upgrade, which is expected to activate around July 28. Zakura is a free and open-source client built on Zebra developed by the Zcash Foundation. The team plans to gradually integrate features such as quantum recoverability, recursive proofs, and private information retrieval into future Zcash protocol upgrades through Zakura. It takes approximately 4 hours and 20 minutes to synchronize with the Zcash mainnet using Zakura, while Zebra takes about 20 hours and 46 minutes, resulting in nearly a 5-fold increase in synchronization speed. Zakura supports native block pruning, node snapshots, and provides a zcashd compatibility mode to facilitate the migration of wallets, exchanges, mining pools, and other infrastructure to the new client.

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