New Release - Importing VKs and Seed Phrases

Posted on March 1, 2025

We have released Zenith 0.9.1.0-beta.

This release adds more functionality to our wallet:

  • Import Seed Phrases

With this release, we have completed our current Zcash Community Grant for Zenith. It is amazing to look back at the past year and see what started as a tiny script to make it easier to read shielded memos from zcashd become the first full-node wallet for zebrad.

We began with a very simple way to interact with a Zcash node:

And now we have a fully-featured Zcash wallet:

Zenith implements:

  • Unified addresses, Sapling addresses and transparent addresses.
  • Multiple wallets, multiple accounts per wallet.
  • Built-in address book.
  • Configurable privacy levels.
  • TEX addresses per ZIP-320.
  • Creating and accepting payment URIs per ZIP-321.
  • Generating and importing Unified Viewing Keys.
  • Importing existing wallets from a seed phrase.

And all of these features can be used programatically via our RPC server, allowing for applications to interact with the Zcash blockchain through a standard JSON RPC.

We want to thank the Zcash community for supporting our work through the Zcash Community Grants program, the feedback and collaboration from the developers in the community and the feature requests and bug reports from our users.

We have new features planned for Zenith that we are excited to share with the community, stay tuned!