Resources
Zebra
Zebra is Zcash’s Consensus node completely implemented in RustLang by Zcash Foundation
Zaino
Zaino is an indexer for the Zcash blockchain implemented in Rust by ZingoLabs
Zaino provides all necessary functionality for “light” clients (wallets and other applications that don’t rely on the complete history of blockchain) and “full” clients / wallets and block explorers providing access to both the finalized chain and the non-finalized best chain and mempool held by either a Zebra or Zcashd full validator.
Zallet
Prononced Zallèt (like Ballet), it’s the replacement for the Zcashd full-node wallet developed entirely in RustLang by ZODL
Zakura
Zakura is a Zcash full node written in Rust. It syncs and validates the Zcash blockchain, participates in the peer-to-peer network, and provides RPC access for applications and infrastructure. It can be installed with Cargo or run as a Docker container.
Zakura contains a wrapper for Zcashd wallet CLI. Use this approach if you need additional time to migrate to Zebra and Zallet (or Z3).
Community Maintained Snapshots
Zebra Snapshots by ValarGroup provides daily, checksum-verified Zcash mainnet state snapshots in archive and pruned formats. These snapshots help bring a Zebra node close to the chain tip without syncing the entire blockchain from scratch.
Legacy (Zcashd)
Zcashd is the originary consensus node for Zcash. Forked from Bitcoin-core in 2015, Zcashd has gone through several Network Upgrades and was the main consensus node since the Zcash network was deployed in October 28th 2016. It has now reached End-of-Life: the final release, 6.20.0, halted at block 3417100 on July 18th 2026, ahead of the NU6.3 (“Ironwood”) network upgrade that it does not support, which is deployed on July 28th, 2026. Zcash consensus now runs on Zebra. See the Zcashd End-of-Life notice .
ZODL Engineers will be posting updates on this website: https://z.cash/support/zcashd-deprecation/
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Zcash Block Explorer
ZBE is a (originally) ZCG funded project which is currently maintained by all Zcash teams. The ZBE is a good way to get to know how transaction look like in Zcash
Website: https://zcashexplorer.app/
Github: https://github.com/zcash/zcash-explorer/
Zcash Dev Tool
Meet the Dev Tool! It’s the best way to fiddle around or build a new feature for Zcash! See great examples of how to parse addreses, transactions, sync a wallet or finding out what’s what in a transaction.