{"id":40658,"date":"2021-04-13T14:06:01","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T11:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=40658"},"modified":"2025-08-30T15:09:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T12:09:45","slug":"zcash-developers-plan-major-halo-arc-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/zcash-developers-plan-major-halo-arc-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"Zcash developers plan major Halo Arc upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Electric Coin Company (ECC), the company behind the Zcash cryptocurrency, has revealed details of the Halo Arc upgrade suite, whose release is scheduled for October 1.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">(1\/4) The Halo Arc product suite will help usher in a new era for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Zcash?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Zcash<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24ZEC&#038;src=ctag&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$ZEC<\/a>. It includes updates to Zcashd, the ECC Reference Wallet apps and the ECC wallet SDKs to coincide with NU5.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1jBstYlKOV\">https:\/\/t.co\/1jBstYlKOV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Electric Coin Company \ud83d\udee1\ufe0f (@ElectricCoinCo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ElectricCoinCo\/status\/1381623372992413697?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 12, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Halo Arc includes:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>updates to the Zcash consensus node (Zcashd);<\/li>\n<li>ECC prototype wallet;<\/li>\n<li>ECC development kit (SDK).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The new wallet will enable anonymous transactions by default. Currently, this option is at users&#8217; discretion.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, the update was planned for this summer. Later, the developers moved Halo Arc to October 1 to coincide with the activation of Zcash Network Upgrade 5 (NU5).<\/p>\n<p>In the October protocol upgrade, unified addresses will also be introduced, compatible with all types of Zcash pools \u2014 open and anonymous.<\/p>\n<p>Halo is positioned as a &#8216;trustless recursive version&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-a-zero-knowledge-proof\">zero-knowledge proofs<\/a>. It is meant to significantly boost the system&#8217;s scalability and remove the need for &#8216;trusted setups&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The latter involve creating a secret number whose derivative is used by the Zcash protocol. This number is created from multiple parts by various participants, who must then destroy the &#8216;cryptographic toxic waste&#8217; without revealing the associated information.<\/p>\n<p>If participants who conspire do not destroy the waste, or if the secret number is revealed, a serious breach in the protocol could occur.<\/p>\n<p>In November, the Zcash network underwent a halving. Along with it <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/zcash-network-records-its-first-halving-as-canopy-upgrade-activates\">Canopy upgrade activated<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-zcash-zec\">What is Zcash (ZEC)?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201cWhat is Zcash (ZEC)?\u201d \u2014 ForkLog\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/cryptorium\/chto-takoe-zcash-zec\/embed#?secret=YBhR1mwlbt#?secret=yp8QRn6Shj\" data-secret=\"yp8QRn6Shj\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Electric Coin Company (ECC), the company behind Zcash, has revealed details of the Halo Arc upgrade suite, scheduled for release on October 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1921,1134,202],"class_list":["post-40658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-electric-coin-company","tag-technical-updates","tag-zcash"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"32","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40660,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40658\/revisions\/40660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}