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This is a new implementation of the incremental merkle tree used by our scheme to witness commitments to spendable value. It serves as a fixed-sized accumulator. This new construction has a much simpler API surface area, avoids memory safety issues, remains pruned at all times, avoids serialization edge cases, has more efficient insertion, and is abstract over the depth and hash function used at the type level. Further, it lays the groundwork for efficient "fast-forwarding" of witnesses into the tree as the treestate is updated.
Zcash Core integration/staging tree
Where do I begin?
We have a guide for joining the public testnet: https://github.com/zcash/zcash/wiki/Public-Alpha-Guide
What is Zcash?
Zcash is an implementation of the "zerocash" protocol. Based on Bitcoin's code, it intends to offer a far higher standard of privacy and anonymity through a sophisticiated zero-knowledge proving scheme which preserves confidentiality of transaction metadata.
Zcash is unfinished and highly experimental. Use at your own risk.
Participation in the Zcash project is subject to a Code of Conduct.
License
Zcash Core is released under the terms of the MIT license. See COPYING for more information or see http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.