Guides
Installing Zecboat, and understanding Zcash.
Get the wallet
Step by step, from system dependencies to your first run: the mistakes that most often go wrong, and how to back up a wallet so the backup works.
Beta software. No independent security audit. Use small amounts.
Understanding Zcash
Short explanations of the parts you will meet while using a shielded wallet — addresses, viewing keys, shielded assets, and what the network is actually doing.
- What is a Zcash Wallet? →
- What is a Zcash Shielded Asset (ZSA)? →
- What is an L2 ZSA? →
- What Makes a Zcash L2 ZSA Unique? →
- What is the Size of the Zecboat Application? →
- What is a Zcash Unified Address? →
- What is a Zcash Account? →
- What is the Zcash Blockchain? →
- What is Zcash Mining? →
- What is a Zcash Transaction? →
- What is a Zcash Viewing Key? →
- What is Zcash (ZEC)? →
- Where to Buy Zcash (ZEC)? →
- What is Ironwood? →
The protocol
- ✓ asset id = BLAKE2b-256 of the collection key and a description; the description carries the image’s SHA-256
- ✓ Lagos Post Card · Barcelona Post Card 2026 · Happy Birthday Zcash 10
Draft, not independently reviewed. If you implement it and something is wrong or underspecified, that is a defect in the document.
Proofs of note lineage, used by v0.5. ◐ Awaiting external review.
KNOTLINE v1 →The lineage proofs, carried on the chain to the next holder. ◐ Awaiting external review.
Superseded for new Collections. Kept for older assets and for implementers: v0.5 lists only what changed.
ZMAP v0.4 →A proposal, superseded. Identity v1 in v0.5 replaced it.