April 2025 Work Progress: KAS, ZEC, CKB Update

ZCASH (ZEC) V6.2.0 Update

The ZCASH team officially started the depreciation process. zcashd In 2025, all nodes are being switched. zebraNew wallet, ZalletIt is being developed as an alternative to the Zcashd wallet interface.

Many JSON-RPC methods are supported by a drop-in replacement in Zebrad or ZALLET, but the other methods may require change and some can not be used at all. If you use Zcashd for mining or other integration, it will help you improve migration support by reviewing JSON-RPC compatible spreadsheets and providing feedback.

See the platform: Support for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS has been deleted. In May 2025, the support will be over, and the GitHub Runner will no longer meet the second phase of policy requirements.

Learn more: Zcashd depreciation information

Early (e.g. v1.0.0) -Crescendo Hardfork

Long -awaited Creshendo Hard Fork Here! Kaspa has been released Rusty-KASPA V1.0.0Main performance upgrades and block production speeds increase from 1 block (BPS) to 10bps. Upgrade has been activated May 5, 2025, about 15:00 utc ~ DIA score 110,165,000.

Main function:

• 10 BPS activation: If the block speed increases by 10 times, the amount of transaction throughput and response are improved.
• New P2P Protocol V7: It is necessary to maintain a peer connection. The node uses the previous protocol 24 hours before the activation, breaking the connection with a colleague.
• Maintenance configuration: use -Patrate-period Control the amount of historical data to be kept. The default is medicine. 30 hours (previous to 50 hours).
• Improved node efficiency: Due to higher block generation speed, data storage and pruning better.

See the CRESCENDO upgrade guide for more information.

Reduced KAS block compensation

A new block compensation has been reduced according to the Kaspa Tokken study and discharge schedule.

• Previous block rewards: 61.74 Who
• New block reward: 58.27 Who

Use 2Cryptocalc to update the mining profitability estimates.

Nervos CKB V0.201.0 Update

The latest CKB release, V0.201.0We offer important maintenance and compatibility upgrades to prepare for future consensus changes. This update includes improvements in building stability, logging and project maintenance.

Main modifications and improvements:

• WASM (Webassemble) builds an error in the previous version.
• Logging improvement Valley-Assumption.
• I upgraded Rust Toolchain 1.85.0 And Rust Edition to 2024.
• introduction Automatic location Centralize and simplify dependence management throughout the project.

Notification of depreciation symbols: CentOS support will soon stop. It is better for users to switch to other supported platforms or build them in the source.

For download and compatible information, see the official CKB GitHub release page.

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