Zcash developers plan to scale private transactions to 50,000 per second by integrating Tachyon code into more efficient private-payment software.
Tech & Launches ·
Zcash developers have released Udon, a new component that integrates portions of Project Tachyon into Zakura Common, a cryptographic library used across the network to create and verify private transactions. The move supports a long-term objective of exceeding 50,000 private payments per second, according to Project Tachyon leader Sean Bowe. Recent improvements to Common have already reduced private-transaction creation times from over three seconds to below 200 milliseconds in testing.
The Tachyon scaling approach aims to compress multiple payment proofs into a single verification, reducing the computational load on network nodes as transaction volume rises. At the targeted throughput, individual nodes would otherwise need to process more than 500 megabytes of data each second. By building proof-generation logic into the already-optimized Common library, developers intend to manage the memory requirements of handling such high volumes.
Udon's release marks an early step but does not yet demonstrate the full speed gains Tachyon promises. The upgrade remains in development and requires further work and security review before potential activation on the Zcash network. Currently, shielded-transaction activity on the network averages roughly one per seven seconds.