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According to official announcements, Morph has officially launched Morph Tachyon, an independent Layer 1 network built specifically for on-chain trading. As one of the first projects to build trading infrastructure on Morph Tachyon, the decentralized perpetual contract trading platform PopDEX will establish a high-performance on-chain trading environment based on Morph Tachyon, further enhancing the execution efficiency and user experience of on-chain derivative trading. Leveraging Morph Tachyon's high-performance on-chain trading scenario design and independent consensus and settlement architecture, PopDEX achieves a 200ms target block time, up to 200,000 TPS throughput capacity, and instant finality. Building on these high-throughput processing capabilities and trading-native architecture, PopDEX will further strengthen on-chain trading execution capabilities, supporting faster and more stable order processing and market interaction, providing traders, market makers, and liquidity providers with an on-chain trading experience closer to professional trading platforms. Both parties will continue to collaborate on on-chain trading infrastructure, jointly promoting the development of a higher-performance, higher capital efficiency on-chain market.
: Zcash has launched a new full node, Zakura, maintained by a team independent of the Zcash Foundation. It is released as a fast-sync branch that is a trimmed version of Zebra and is compatible with the legacy zcashd client, whose lifecycle will end on July 18th. Zakura is part of Zcash's scaling efforts, working in conjunction with Project Tachyon and private information retrieval research. The goal is to increase network throughput to the level of Visa and Mastercard by reducing verification data and eliminating wallet performance bottlenecks. Zakura also supports the Ironwood (NU6.3) upgrade, which will be activated on July 28th. This upgrade introduces a turnstile mechanism to limit withdrawals from the Orchard shielded pool and to control the creation of counterfeit ZEC that could be generated by potential long-term soundness bugs.
Zcash ecosystem core contributor ZODL announced a new network upgrade proposal and privacy pool, Ironwood, in collaboration with Tachyon, Valar Group, the Zcash Foundation, and Shielded Labs. Ironwood will be built upon the existing Orchard protocol and further enhance security through formal verification and additional independent audits.