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Zcash infrastructure · 2026 to present

Jino Labs

Where my open-source and protocol work lives.

Jino Labs is my engineering studio for deep-infrastructure work: on-chain systems, MEV, DeFi, and high-throughput backends. Most current output is Zcash infrastructure, built in the open.

What’s in it

zsnap

Snapshot sync for Zebra. Bootstraps a fresh Zcash node from a hash-verified state snapshot in seconds instead of replaying the chain from genesis; Zebra then validates every subsequent block as normal. Testnet-validated prototype.

Zcash testnet faucet

A self-sovereign faucet running its own node, wallet, and miner, paying shielded z-to-z drips and gating claims with browser proof-of-work instead of a third-party captcha vendor.

Speedrun Zcash

Ten hands-on challenges taking a developer from “what is a shielded transaction” to a first merged pull request, on a real in-browser testnet wallet.

Stack

RustTypeScriptZcashZebraWebAssemblyCloudflare Workers

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