As a part of an evolving community-wide dialog about Unified Addresses (UAs) and Zcash deal with design, Zashi is updating how UAs perform within the app.
Till now, Zashi Unified Addresses have included shielded and clear receivers, according to the unique UA specification. These had been labeled as “Zcash Shielded Handle” within the app’s Obtain display screen.
Whereas that format labored as meant, current group discussions have highlighted a key consideration: together with a clear receiver in a UA can unintentionally expose components of a person’s transaction historical past when the intent was to share solely a shielded deal with. That is significantly related now, provided that the clear receiver in Unified Addresses was initially included to make sure compatibility with centralized exchanges, however because the exchanges by no means adopted UA help and depend on t-addresses, it provides no sensible profit whereas posing privateness dangers.
What’s Altering
Given these concerns, we’ve made the next adjustments:
- Zashi not contains clear receivers in Unified Addresses (Zcash addresses that begin with the letter “u”). The Obtain display screen nonetheless seems the identical, however beneath “Zcash Shielded Handle,” it now shows a rotating, shielded-only UA.
- Zashi will generate a brand new Zcash Shielded Handle every time you open the Obtain display screen. Producing distinctive addresses is often used for privateness and safety causes.
- All transactions despatched to your completely different rotating Shielded Addresses will stay a part of one pockets steadiness beneath the identical seed phrase.
- Whereas we advocate utilizing a brand new deal with each time, every distinctive deal with may be reused.
- Each clear and shielded ZEC may be despatched to Zashi’s Shielded Addresses. It will likely be obtained and saved as shielded ZEC.
- Wallets and exchanges that don’t help sending funds to shielded receivers is not going to settle for this deal with format. They may require clear addresses.
- If customers want a clear deal with (begins with the letter “t”), it’s nonetheless out there and displayed individually on the Obtain display screen.
- Customers should replace the app to activate this variation.
In case you’re sharing a Unified Handle from an earlier model of Zashi and didn’t intend to disclose the linked clear deal with, we advocate changing it with a freshly generated deal with from the up to date app.
Group Enter, Continued Evolution
This replace displays a broader ecosystem shift towards extra user-friendly privateness defaults. We’re grateful to group members and builders who introduced consideration to this problem and helped form a shared path ahead.
We’ll proceed to watch how the ecosystem evolves and adapt accordingly to offer customers the very best expertise attainable. As all the time, we welcome suggestions and can proceed listening to the Zcash group as we construct. Thanks for serving to us do higher.
— The Zashi Staff
