Hello, our dear followers! We are glad to tell you about Horizen and its progress. There is a few news we want to share with you. So, we are going to write brief information about them, and we hope you will like all of them. To put it briefly, the main focus of the foundation is development.

First of all, ZEN 2.0.19 replaces the current version, ZEN 2.0.18, which is set to deprecate (no longer run). The focus of this version is general maintenance and includes improvements like new DNS seed nodes for testnet and mainnet, and updated OpenSSL dependency. The update also includes the fix for the Zcash vulnerability CVE-2019–17048, aka “PING.” The upgrade will occur around 26th October.

Moreover, according to the latest live stream, the team is focused on development. The highest priority area of development is the Sidechain SDK. Developers achieved the results, as follow: Multiple sidechain nodes live on devnet, Synchronization between two nodes working correctly — both nodes have the same state, Additional synchronization tests in case of forks are in progress. Also, the dev team focused on Mainchain implementation of Sidechain, ZEND, ZancashJS, and Sphere.

To end with, Horizen did a great job. We may see that the development team is making the project more helpful every day, and community managers are engaged in becoming ZEN more popular. Of course, we are going to follow the company, which can change our vision of privacy. Keep up the excellent work!