This blog post is intended to provide more detail and an update on ECC's current plans. We welcome the community’s feedback.

I often hear people say that tools like mixers or using fresh addresses for every crypto transaction are sufficient privacy protections because they provide plausible deniability. This is a naive understanding of how surveillance works.

As part of our due diligence, we embarked on sentiment gathering, market research and economic modeling to better understand the possibilities of ZSAs and tradeoffs of different approaches.

It has become clear that the best way for ECC to contribute to the Zcash community over the next three years is to release an official ECC wallet on top of a highly interoperable Zcash protocol that leverages proof-of-stake consensus.

Last week, in our tertile planning sessions, we set a multi-year “North Star” and codified our plans across departments for the next four months. Everything we do will be in support of this focus: To deliver a world-class user experience for ZEC. 

And we’re planning for a big January release of the Halo Arc product suite, including the NU5-compatible Zcashd, an updated ECC Reference Wallet, updated mobile wallet SDKs, and features that will enable Zcash to be Shielded by Default.

In line with ECC’s shift to a market- and user-driven product strategy, we continue to gather information to guide next […]

ECC is transitioning from an engineering-led to a market-led product strategy. This blog provides a summary of what that means and outlines our current priorities.

What the internet did for communication and commerce, cryptocurrencies will do for money. But using cryptocurrencies without privacy is not safe.

Our mission is to empower people with economic freedom.  To that end, we build and support Zcash to provide everyone […]

Zcash might have the most diverse community of any crypto ecosystem.  It includes world-class cryptographers and engineers, leaders from other […]

Many of us in the crypto industry know a lot about engineering and finance. We understand cryptography, how to custody […]