Zashi could sooner or later be an all-inclusive UX hub for Zcash customers — the place they will purchase and promote ZEC on a decentralized alternate, defend digital property like Bitcoin or US Treasuries, collateralize ZEC and different shielded property for credit score that can be utilized for funds, stake ZEC for a 5-10% yield, handle their ZEC and different shielded property on a built-for-purpose machine like a {hardware} pockets, take part in voting workouts, onboard a buddy with a easy textual content message, and extra. That is the imaginative and prescient. And launch of a few of these options and capabilities isn’t far off.

However immediately we rejoice an epic milestone, Zashi’s debut.

Zashi — ECC’s cell pockets for Zcash — is obtainable now, for the primary time on the App Retailer (iOS), whereas its launch on the Google Play retailer is slated for late April.

Right here’s what’s you’ll discover in Zashi 1.0:

• You possibly can ship and obtain ZEC and shielded memos. (Zashi your mother! Zashi your barista!)
• It’s dependable and quick, and it contains the flexibility to Spend earlier than Sync.
• The UI is totally up to date — easy and clear.
• It helps Sapling and Orchard swimming pools, plus Unified Addresses, a single deal with sort that works throughout all Zcash swimming pools, clear and shielded.
• It has built-in mechanisms for consumer assist and developer suggestions.
• And naturally, Zashi is open-sourced, so anybody can construct on it.

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Imaginative and prescient and rationale

ECC’s North Star is to ship a world-class consumer expertise for ZEC, and the Zashi pockets is a strategic focus space for the entire firm. We constructed it, and can proceed to enhance it, for a number of causes — not least amongst these is to ascertain a greater connection to Zcash customers and get perception into their real-world wants and consumer experiences.

From the start, our imaginative and prescient and rationale for releasing and supporting a commercially obtainable Zcash cell pockets included the next:

• ECC, the inventor and a continuous supporter of Zcash, is greatest outfitted to ship a pockets that gives an industry-leading consumer expertise for ZEC.
• Constructed-in suggestions mechanisms, and an agile product improvement strategy, will allow ECC to ship extra options, sooner, than is feasible by means of our typical follow and cadence of protocol upgrades and hand-off to third-party pockets suppliers.
• An ECC-supported pockets may allow novel partnerships that unlock distinctive options, like integration with fee rails for buying ZEC, swaps with different tokens, and many others.
• An ECC-supported pockets may even allow the testing of experimental pockets and/or protocol options that different industrial wallets aren’t ready or prepared to assist.
• Releasing a product that helps ZEC utility and consumer expertise will allow ECC to higher perceive consumer habits, needs, and desires by means of quick suggestions and different mechanisms, e.g., polling.

Constructed by Zcashers for Zcashers

Zashi’s preliminary goal persona is an present ZEC consumer. This individual has already downloaded and used a cell, desktop, or {hardware} pockets for storing and utilizing ZEC. Notice, this individual could not totally perceive Zcash deal with varieties and implications of their use. Their attributes are: idealistic, educated, tech-savvy, and privacy- and security-minded.

Guiding ideas for the Zashi 1.0 design

• It will likely be nice and simple to make use of for the common smartphone consumer — “All my transactions undergo rapidly and reliably.”
• The consumer should really feel comfy that they gained’t lose funds as a result of any unintentional errors.
• The UI ought to instill confidence within the consumer.
• The consumer shouldn’t really feel the necessity to consider charges when making a transaction (however Zashi will all the time present visibility).
• The consumer should really feel that the ZEC saved of their pockets is safe from monetary loss.
• The pockets should supply adequate privateness that protects customers from surveillance by most actors in most conditions.
• The consumer mustn’t have to find out about any new ideas (together with, however not restricted to: notes, actions, transaction measurement, DoS assaults, mud) to make use of Zashi.
• The consumer expertise should scale back friction by minimizing steps or wait occasions to not more than {industry} greatest practices for different financial-related cell purposes.
• The pockets have to be obtainable to the common iOS and Android cellphone customers.
• The visible design of the pockets should really feel fashionable {and professional}.
• Options shall be prioritized primarily based on 1) what’s most related to ZEC customers immediately 2) what may transfer the needle as in contrast with different choices available in the market.

Zashi branding

Individuals have requested, so listed below are some solutions concerning the Zashi identify and branding.

Zashi (‘zä-shē, ZAH-she) is a playful by-product of Zatoshi, which is the results of combining the letter Z, for Zcash, with Satoshi, the identify of Bitcoin’s pseudonymous inventor. ECC consulted exterior businesses and attorneys within the naming course of, and we carried out branding workouts and voting — internally and with potential customers.

From our unique naming temporary:

ECC’s pockets app wants a reputation with mainstream adoption potential. Tonally, it ought to really feel optimistic and fashionable, and we should always not insist on utilizing [obscure terminology]. We also needs to not insist that the identify has a deeper which means. It may possibly reference Zcash, nevertheless it doesn’t must explicitly.

Like PayPal or Venmo, the identify ought to be one thing folks can use as a verb, like, “Simply PayPal me,” or “Zelle it to me.” (Zashi me!)

With our consumer personas in thoughts, the pockets identify and design ought to contemplate these model attributes: authenticity, belief, variety/inclusion, freedom, sustainability, safety, togetherness, enjoyable, new, optimism, reliable, customizable, privateness/consent

The origami-like image within the Zashi emblem is supposed to symbolize a hen — the idea of freedom. After all, it’s additionally a letter Z.

Obtain now

The Zashi app that’s obtainable immediately could look very totally different within the close to future, with vastly expanded capabilities and integrations, however v1 is prepared for you immediately, and we’re trying ahead to listening to from you in your general consumer expertise and what new options you want. So hit the App Retailer, click on that GET button and tell us what you suppose!

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