FROST 2-of-3 Signing for Shielded ZEC: Three Wallets, One Week
Within a few days, three wallets showed they are building threshold signing across a user's own devices. Zkool already ships FROST accounts. NoirWallet published its Secure Vault design. OpenPGP Wallet published a 2-of-3 Ironwood design. The goal is that one machine never holds the full spending key or draws the only confirmation screen.
The designs are similar, but each wallet defines its own coordinator messages and share backups. That means a co-signer from one wallet can't sign for another, and a FROST backup only restores in the app that made it. Khadim's $16,500 grant application would fund an open, versioned spec with test vectors and a reference implementation. Separately, Konclave, a FROST treasury for groups, asked for $18,000 to move each vault's viewing key off its hosted coordinator and onto members' devices.
ZCG Approves 0xramp, Declines Hito Maintenance
ZCG's October 12 meeting approved three grants: 0xramp (ZEC payments and wallet integrations), Mexico Tech Week by Zcash México, and the Zcash Türkiye University Tour. It declined about twenty others, including the Hito hardware wallet's maintenance request, VKX Wallet's React Native module, the English/Korean shielded-payments report, and a VaihtoFX M-Pesa on/off-ramp. The minutes say all votes were unanimous.
First Cypherpunk Policy Dinner in Washington, DC
On October 14, Pretty Good Policy for Zcash (PGPZ) hosted the first Cypherpunk Policy Dinner in DC. Chair Paul Brigner opened it, and ZODL's Josh Swihart spoke. PGPZ's recap put the message simply: you shouldn't have to give up privacy to take part in the digital economy. Not everyone liked the format. A forum post questioned how independent PGPZ's board is from ZODL, ZCG and venture investors, given ZCG's roughly $750K in funding for the group.