Overview
- The Zakura team published Zakura Common and shipped it in Zakura v1.3.0 on Monday, August 31, 2026; Vizor Wallet is a confirmed early adopter and ZEC briefly rose about 5% after the announcement.
- Zakura’s benchmarks report large gains: mobile proof generation more than 14× faster, desktop over 5× faster, Sinsemilla hashing about 21× faster, trial decryption 1.5× faster, and zk‑SNARK verification 4–8× faster.
- The library is open source and dual‑licensed under MIT and Apache 2.0, and it produces proofs compatible with the existing Zcash protocol so no hard fork or coordinated network upgrade is required for wallets to use it.
- Those speed figures come from Zakura’s internal tests and may vary by phone model, operating system, transaction complexity, and wallet integration, so independent real‑device testing and staggered wallet rollouts will determine how broadly users see the gains.
- Zakura frames the release as part of Project Tachyon and says the stack already handles the proposed NU7 block timing, which could help improve wallet responsiveness, node verification speed, and longer‑term private‑transaction throughput if adoption spreads.