This initial milestone will provide the code structure and minimal functionality with no consensus modifications.

✅ Completed: March 21, 2025

Introduce BFT functionality, although Zcash’s existing consensus will be completely unaltered.

✅ Completed: May 16, 2025

First modification of PoW consensus to respect the assured finality provided by the BFT protocol.

Status: Currently In Progress

Introduce new transaction functionality to enable all of the staking operations, such as new finalizer node registration, delegations, PoS roster selection, rewards issuance, roster evictions, and slashing.

In Milestone 4, our aim is a feature complete implementation

Transition from the Prototype Phase to the Productionization Phase to integrate Crosslink into the Zcash protocol.