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The Metamorphosis of Malleable Transactions

Transaction malleability has been a long-standing issue for Bitcoin-derived cryptocurrencies and it’s an issue which the Zcash team have been keen to address. Let’s explore what the problem is and

Taylor’s Next Adventure

I’m both excited and saddened to announce that I’m leaving the Zcash team to pursue a Master’s degree in Quantum Information at the University of Waterloo. I’m excited because physics

Auditing Zcash

Our mission is to make the first open financial technology with zero-knowledge privacy, for every person in the world to use. To that end we are commissioning multiple security audits

Zcash Launch and Roadmap

Zcash Sprout Launch The Zcash team is nearing the time to release our code and launch the genesis block of the Zcash blockchain. This is an exciting time to be

New Alpha Release: Optimization and Non-malleability

Today, we deployed a new alpha release of the Zcash reference implementation, v0.11.2.z8, to the testnet. The new release includes the following changes [1]: Equihash mining parameters have been adjusted

BOLT: Private Payment Channels

Matthew Green and I have written a paper introducing BOLT (Blind Off-chain Lightweight Transactions), which offers a fast, private payment channel protocol inspired by the Lightning Network. We believe that