I picked up some SDC on the dips

but don't have the time to
follow the thread as I would like to.
Could someone inform me of what the next releases will be
and if there is any time line for them the Dev's mentioned.
Much Thanks!
Sincerely,
MM
next release will be zk-snarks (zero knowledge with ring signatures for now)
right now, zk-snarks release is on public test
Sorry mate but this is the fith time i've tried saying this to you lol Its not snarks! Its a zero knowledge proof with a ring signature commitment scheme. Rings are slightly, bloat like. But nothing more then a cryptonote and it can also be pruned later Untill the snark guys, specifically, the killian, micali theory, when it materialises or ryno, techno put in the hard work to realise it first. The solution/refinement to their snark scheme to remove trusted setup. Currently snarks is a massive compiler with 896mb+ fixed system parameters, a trusted setup. Zerocash use a merkle tree over coin commitment "cm" and zerocoin unusable! ( Zeroverts implementation still not working properly
https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/846471.msg9628078#msg9628078 Coins going missing!) (Write about that jdebunt!) As far as i can tell zerovert is pinocchio coin, zerocoin variant using ZK proofs, 344B/spend, but retains other problems. Also spend time grows linearly with number of coins nor will it handle variable denomination, in its current state.
Snarks is nothing short of very very very very very cool. You can search for "pouring" if you can wrap your head around that, you will start to understand just how epic it is. Once the snark or Shadow guys figure out how to set it up without trust it will basically change the way we do a lot of things! And i mean A lot. I MEAN A LOT (mind the dumb and dumber pun)... Depending on what route is taken the chain..ugh.. hard to explain, could be extremely compact only having the coins not spent yet in it. Highly compact wallets. You could even transact off the chain (without having to download it... Once people wrap their head around zk proofs then we will start opening the minds for snarks
