Zcash Transactions Speed Up with New Open-Source Library

Zcash's shielded transactions are set to become significantly faster, thanks to an open-source library called Zakura Common. This new library compresses transaction creation from over three seconds to under 200 milliseconds.

The upgrade does not require a hard fork or consensus change, and compatible wallets can integrate the library immediately.

The performance boost is impressive: mobile proof generation improved by more than 14 times, desktop performance by over five times, and Sinsemilla hashing saw a 21-fold improvement. Trial decryption also got 1.5 times faster.