Empower economic freedom
Zcash is at the center of our mission to provide everyone with access to a fair and open currency.
Zcash
ECC launched Zcash — a privacy-protecting, digital currency built on vanguard science — in 2016, and we continue to support the technology, along with others.
Our vision for Zcash is that it will provide equal access to economic systems and give everyone the ability to participate in economic activity.
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ECC Blog
ECC Transparency Report for Q2 2022
This ECC transparency report details company income, expenses, and use of funds during Q2 2022.
Halo’s contribution goes beyond efficiency
The flagship implementation of the Halo algorithm is maintained by the legendary cryptographic engineering team at The Electric Coin Co — the team whose pioneering work is the basis of more or less all zero-knowledge proof technology in use today.
Electric Coin Co. strategy: A 30-year vision
In the future, thanks to a revolutionary set of technologies — built on the principles of fair access and decentralization — humanity will experience greater freedom and security than at any point in history. Each individual will enjoy self-sovereignty, and collaboration and creativity will be at an all-time high.
New release 5.3.0
We are making additional performance improvements in 5.3.0 to reduce concurrent memory utilization during scanning among other memory and performance related optimisations in the zcashd node.
ECC Transparency Report for Q1 2022
This ECC transparency report details company income, expenses, and use of funds during Q1 2022.
US Treasury announcement: ECC’s engagement on policy for economic freedom
Today it was announced the United States Treasury imposed sanctions on virtual currency mixer Tornado Cash, adding it to the OFAC (Office of Foreign Assets Control) SDN list, the list of Specially Designated Nationals with whom Americans and American businesses are not allowed to transact.
Long-term sustainability with the Zcash Posterity Fund
As we conduct our research into Proof-of-Stake to develop a proposal for Zcash, an outstanding key area of research is how the issuance schedule for new ZEC interacts with PoS security. In this post, we take a step back from PoS itself, and analyze how issuance and fees support long term network sustainability.
New Release 5.2.0
We are making additional performance improvements to both the zcashd wallet and full node as part of release 5.2.0.
New Release 5.1.0
This release is primarily targeted at improving the validation performance of Sapling and Orchard transactions as well as an incremental improvement to the scan performance of post-NU5 blocks. The release also made improvements to getblocktemplate performance and added Orchard information to getrawtransaction and decoderawtransaction. We will continue to address remaining scan performance issues in subsequent releases.
Founded by preeminent cypherpunks, mathematicians and engineers, ECC has earned a reputation for quality work, regular releases, integrity and a commitment to community.
Founded by preeminent cypherpunks, mathematicians and engineers, ECC has earned a reputation for quality work, regular releases, integrity and a commitment to community.