Svmuu News: Zakura, a new Zcash full-node client jointly developed by Project Tachyon and Valar Group, has been officially released. Zakura is a free, open-source client built on Zebra, developed by the Zcash Foundation, and already supports the Ironwood (NU6.3) network upgrade, which is expected to be activated around July 28. The team plans to use Zakura to gradually integrate future Zcash protocol upgrades—such as quantum resilience, recursive proofs, and private information retrieval—into the live network. Benchmark tests show that Zakura takes approximately 4 hours and 20 minutes to complete synchronization with the Zcash mainnet, compared to approximately 20 hours and 46 minutes for Zebra—representing a nearly fivefold increase in synchronization speed.