News about Zcash

The team behind Zakura, a newer version of the software that runs the Zcash network, proposes giving every ZEC swap made through NEAR Intents its own viewing key. This would stop a refund address posted on NEAR's public chain from exposing a user's wider payment history to a future quantum computer. Spending keys would stay with users, and private information retrieval would let wallets locate refunds without revealing which addresses they are checking. Zakura says compatible wallets could adopt the feature within weeks, ahead of Zcash developers' January target for quantum-resistant payments. No quantum computer capable of recovering these keys has yet been demonstrated.