ECC units goals and planning by January 2024

Now and thru the top of January 2024, Electrical Coin Co. (ECC) goals heart on delivering an improved ZEC person expertise, primarily by the Zashi pockets. Throughout groups — Product; Engineering; PeopleOps; and Communications and Advocacy — ECC workers are centered on work that both straight contributes to the pockets or ultimately makes ZEC and Zashi adoption extra viable.

Background: ECC makes use of an OKR course of for prioritizing and delivering measurable work on four-month cycles. In October, groups met and finalized planning for T3 2023-24 (October-January).

Priorities had been developed to perform or make significant progress on the next: 

1. Launch the subsequent model of the Zashi app together with a brand new UX and UI
2. Transition extra duties to the broader Zcash neighborhood so ECC can concentrate on constructing Zashi, beginning with the Decentralizing Zcash Digital effort. 
3. Take significant steps within the effort to transition Zcash from proof of labor (PoW) to proof of stake (PoS), Zashi’s eventual consensus mechanism, by publishing a design with safety arguments, and a protocol simulator.
4. Keep coverage efforts to make sure Zashi and Zcash are (1) accessible and usable by folks in the US and (2) thought of socially helpful. Proceed internet hosting notable coverage occasions and publishing episodes of the PGP for Crypto Podcast.
5. Assist choose ecosystem groups and tasks that straight profit Zashi customers
   1. Assist Courageous’s integration of Zcash and encrypted media/information.
   2. Assist Edge, Unstoppable, and Nighthawk’s use of the ECC cellular pockets SDKs.
   3. Construct and/or enhance Zashi options (e.g., implementing ZIP-317 and Orchard).

Every ECC staff has constructed their OKRs to help these firm goals.