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.

Note: This post has been updated to reflect renaming of the Transitive Grace Period Public License (TGPPL) to the Bootstrap […]

Network Upgrade 4: Canopy The 4.0.0 release supports the Canopy activation on mainnet, which will occur at a block height […]

Electric Coin Co. (ECC) today opened the source code we are developing for Halo 2, an updated, more efficient version […]

Luxor Mining Pool has mined the first Zcash block to a shielded coinbase at height #949496. Shielded coinbase was enabled […]

Network Upgrade 4: Canopy The code preparations for the Canopy network upgrade are finished and included in this release. The […]

This month, Chainalysis and Elliptic announced support for Zcash in their compliance products. This post will provide clarity about our […]

Why release a transparency report?  Electric Coin Co. (ECC) is committed to openness and transparency — as we help evolve […]

Earlier this year, ECC released a suite of libraries for building shielded mobile wallets in support of the shielded-Zcash ecosystem. […]

When we launched Zcash almost four years ago, privacy-preserving, freedom-protecting technologies were too scarce. Then came Cambridge-Analytica, GDPR, and countless […]

Heartwood activation on mainnet This release supports the Heartwood activation on mainnet, which will occur at a block height of […]

Viewing keys, detailed in ZIP 310, enable the separation of spending and viewing permissions for Zcash shielded addresses. By creating […]