Zcash's core development team, ZODL, released a strategic roadmap focusing on post-quantum, security extensions, and user experience.

According to Mars Finance, on April 13th, Josh Swihart, founder of the Zcash Open Development Lab (ZODL), the core development team of Zcash, released the latest progress of Zcash, proposing a strategic direction centered on "post-quantum security, scalability, and user experience." Using the Artemis II lunar mission as a metaphor, he emphasized achieving seemingly impossible goals through technological breakthroughs. The ZODL team stated that Zcash is entering the "Zcash IV" phase, which will build an infrastructure similar to a "lunar base" to support the secure expansion of the protocol and applications to billions of users, while simultaneously promoting the vision of privacy-preserving transactions without large-scale financial surveillance. On the product and technology front, ZODL continues to iterate; its 3.3.x version has been launched on iOS and Android, adding hardware wallet connection management, SDK upgrades, and multiple experience optimizations, and advancing key developments such as Keystone wallet functionality and address system upgrades (ZIP 316, UIVK/UFVK). Meanwhile, the Zcash core team fixed several system issues and advanced the development of the Zallet alpha version, while strengthening unified address specifications and wallet interaction experience, laying the foundation for future scalability and performance improvements. In addition, ZODL disclosed continued growth in its application data and participated in the Stablecoin Privacy Summit to strengthen industry cooperation. However, due to increased regulatory and network restrictions, ZODL has been temporarily removed from the Russian app store. The team emphasized that privacy is not an option, but a fundamental requirement of the digital age, and will continue to accelerate delivery to promote ZEC adoption and ecosystem development. The core of the Zcash Open Development Lab is to develop an open, self-custodied private finance platform, aiming to expand ecosystem interoperability through collaboration and bring protected ZEC transactions to mainstream global markets.