The implementation is in the development stage, without a certain application of application.
For now, users must use external wallets to manage ZCASH in a Wallet Ledger.
Charles Guillemet, CTO of Ledger, announced on June 19 that the Wallet Hardware Manufacturer works to give full support to ZCASH (ZEC), a cryptocurrency designed with native privacy thanks to its armored transactions technology (Shielded Transactionsin English).
The manager explained In a forum of the ZCash community that, although «Ledger devices have endured ZCASH for years thanks to the development of third -party applications on our open platform, a key element was missing: Easy access to armored transactions from ZCASH within the Ledger ecosystem ».
In the armored transactions Details such as the sender, receiver and amount They remain hiddenunlike public transactions in Bitcoin, which have identifiers and pseudoanonym hash.
For now, Ledger users store ZCash In the Wallet Ledger, but armored transactions management requires external wallets, limiting the integrated experience.
When the implementation in LEDger is carried out, users may directly sign ZEC transactions and manage them in Ledger Live, the company’s official software. Guillemet stressed that this will eliminate dependence of third -party purses to access this essential functionality.
“We believe that this will be a significant step for ZCASH users in the Ledger community and a significant impulse for the general adoption of ZCASH.”
Charles Guillemet, Ledger CTO.
Guillemet clarified that he is preparing a detailed proposal on the integration of ZCASH and will share it soon.
