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A major Zcash protocol upgrade activated in October 2018 that reduced proof generation from ~40 seconds to ~2 seconds and memory from 3 GB to ~40 MB, making shielded transactions practical on mobile devices. Sapling introduced new shielded addresses, full viewing keys, diversified addresses, and decoupled proof construction from transaction signing. Its cryptographic libraries (bellman, librustzcash) became foundational for the broader ZK ecosystem.