Zcash new full-node client Zakura released, supporting the Ironwood network upgrade

Odaily reported that Zakura, a new Zcash full-node client jointly developed by Project Tachyon and Valar Group, has been officially released. Zakura is a free and open-source client built on the Zebra client developed by the Zcash Foundation, and it already supports the Ironwood (NU6.3) network upgrade, which is expected to be activated around July 28th. Through Zakura, the team plans to gradually integrate future Zcash protocol upgrades—such as quantum recoverability, recursive proofs, and private information retrieval—into the live network. Benchmark tests show that Zakura takes approximately 4 hours and 20 minutes to complete synchronization with the Zcash mainnet, compared to about 20 hours and 46 minutes for Zebra, achieving a nearly 5x improvement in synchronization speed.