Gemini Trust Company (Gemini) announced today that account holders now have the ability to withdraw to shielded Zcash addresses. Gemini is the first regulated institution to announce shielded address support, and it added this capability after receiving approval from the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS).
Last Friday, the Zcash community elected five members out of nineteen candidates to the inaugural Major Grants Review Committee. The Zcash Foundation managed the election and 97.8% of the Zcash Community Advisory Panel participated in the vote.
Our mission is to empower people with economic freedom. To that end, we build and support Zcash to provide everyone with access to a fair and open currency — one
ECC believes that well-informed and -educated policy-makers and regulators produce better regulation. To that end, we engage with policy-makers and regulators both directly (through outreach and meetings; by providing commentary
Electric Coin Co. once again engaged the cryptography group at NCC, this time to review our upcoming Canopy (NU4) network upgrade design and implementation. We are happy and impressed with
Note: This post has been updated to reflect renaming of the Transitive Grace Period Public License (TGPPL) to the Bootstrap Open Source License (BOSL). Electric Coin Co. is spearheading a
Network Upgrade 4: Canopy The 4.0.0 release supports the Canopy activation on mainnet, which will occur at a block height of 1046400 (mid-November), following the targeted EOS halt of our
Last year, our team announced a collection of discoveries and research milestones as part of our Scalability 2021 mission for Zcash. Our primary result was Halo, a new zk-SNARK that
Electric Coin Co. (ECC) today opened the source code we are developing for Halo 2, an updated, more efficient version of ECC’s recursive proof composition that eliminates the need for
