Parity creates The first alternative client for zcash cryptocurrency

Leading developer of solutions for The Ethereum ecosystem, Parity Technologies has announced a partnership with the Zcash Foundation. As part of this cooperation, the first alternative client for the private cryptocurrency Zcash will be created.The report notes that the new node will be created in the Rust language and will be the first alternative client after zcashd – Zcash Company's own client.

In addition, according to the Zcash Foundation, Parity's expertise in the implementation of network nodes in networks with multiple customers has demonstrated the importance of developing communities and further decentralization.

"The implementation of independent nodes gives the miners and the users of zcash for more opportunities, and promotes a healthy decentralization of the crypto Protocol as it is growing," — said in a statement, Foundation CEO zcash for Josh Cincinnati.

Other details regarding this initiative are not provided in the message , but it is curious that the record, which is linked from the Twitter account of Parity, is dated October 30, 2018. Just a day before that-on October 29-the zcash network hosted a hard fork Sapling, designed to ensure the implementation of secure transactions and increase the performance of the blockchain.

Recall, on Tuesday, March 19, the Chinese manufacturer of equipment for mining cryptocurrency Bitmain introduced the device Antminer Z11 based on 12-nm chip. New miner is focused on production zcash for and other cryptocurrencies on the basis of the algorithm Equihash, and as stated by Bitmain, it is three times more powerful than its predecessor Antminer Z9 mini.