Zakura Launches Zakura Common, Boosting Zcash Mobile Proof Generation by 14x

The Zakura team, developers of the Zcash full-node client, released Zakura Common, a new cryptographic and protocol library for the Zcash ecosystem. Benchmarks indicate that mobile proof generation speed increased by over 14 times, while desktop performance improved by over 5 times. Additionally, Sinsemilla hashing speed rose by over 21 times, trial decryption by 1.5 times, and zk-SNARK verification by 4 to 8 times. These optimizations reduce transaction creation wait times from over 3 seconds to under 200 milliseconds. The update is open-sourced under MIT/