Zen 2.0.14

What is Zen?

A globally accessible and anonymous blockchain for censorship-resistant communications and economic activity.

Upgrading from 2.0.11 source

To upgrade from any version prior to 2.0.14 you will have to re-clone the repository, the ZencashOfficial/zen repository was replaced by a new repository based on Zcash upstream with a different commit history, merging/pulling is not possible without issues. Assuming your current repository is stored at ~/zen, do the following to upgrade:

# if you don't want to keep the old src around
rm -r ~/zen
# or if you do want to keep it
mv ~/zen ~/zen_archived
git clone https://github.com/ZencashOfficial/zen.git
cd ~/zen

Now continue with building from source.

Installing from source

1. Get dependencies:
   1. Debian

   sudo apt-get install \
         build-essential pkg-config libc6-dev m4 g++-multilib \
         autoconf libtool ncurses-dev unzip git python \
         zlib1g-dev bsdmainutils automake curl
   

   2. Centos:

   sudo yum install epel-release
   sudo yum update
   sudo yum groupinstall 'Development Tools'
   sudo yum install git cmake3 curl
   

   3. Windows

   sudo apt-get install \
       build-essential pkg-config libc6-dev m4 g++-multilib \
       autoconf libtool ncurses-dev unzip git python \
       zlib1g-dev wget bsdmainutils automake mingw-w64
   

   4. Arm

   sudo apt-get install \
       build-essential pkg-config libc6-dev m4 g++-multilib-arm-linux-gnueabihf \
       autoconf libtool ncurses-dev unzip git python \
       zlib1g-dev curl bsdmainutils automake cmake cargo
   

• Install for linux

# Build
./zcutil/build.sh -j$(nproc)
# fetch key
./zcutil/fetch-params.sh
# Run
./src/zend

• Install for Mac OS (using clang)

Read and follow the README.md at https://github.com/ZencashOfficial/zencash-apple

https://github.com/ZencashOfficial/zencash-apple

• Install for Windows (Cross-Compiled, building on Windows is not supported yet)

./zcutil/build-win.sh -j$(nproc)

• Install for aarch64(ARM64)

mkdir -p ~/bin
cd ~/bin
ln -s /usr/bin/ar aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu-ar
ln -s /usr/bin/g++ aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu-g++
ln -s /usr/bin/gcc aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc
ln -s /usr/bin/nm aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu-nm
ln -s /usr/bin/ranlib aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu-ranlib
ln -s /usr/bin/strip aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu-strip
PATH=$PATH:~/bin
cd ~/zen/
./zcutil/build-arm.sh -j$(nproc)

Instructions to redeem pre block 110,000 ZCL

1. Linux: Copy and paste your wallet.dat from ~/.zclassic/ to ~/.zen. That's it!

2. Windows: Copy and paste your wallet.dat from %APPDATA%/Zclassic/ to %APPDATA%/Zen. That's it!

About

Zen is a platform for secure communications and for deniable economic activity. Zen is an evolution of the Zclassic codebase aimed at primarily enabling intriniscally secure communications and resilient networking.

This software is the Zen client. It downloads and stores the entire history of Zen transactions; depending on the speed of your computer and network connection, the synchronization process could take a day or more once the blockchain has reached a significant size.

Security Warnings

See important security warnings in doc/security-warnings.md.

Zen is unfinished and highly experimental. Use at your own risk.

Where do I begin?

• The easiest way to get started is to download one of the available graphical wallets from zensystem.io

Need Help?

• Many guides and tutorials are available at ZenCashOfficial Discord for help and more information.

Want to participate in development?

• Code review is welcome!

Participation in the Zen project is subject to a Code of Conduct.

Building

Build Zen along with most dependencies from source by running ./zcutil/build.sh for Linux. ./zcutil/build-win.sh for Windows ./zcutil/build-mac.sh for MacOS.

License

For license information see the file COPYING.