Building sustainability and resilience into ‘Dev Fund 2’
The next dev fund the Zcash community implements needs to (1) include more, independent teams than the current iteration, and (2) at least one of those teams should be headquartered outside the US.
ECC restructuring to better serve Zcash
Today, in order to better serve Zcash, we are announcing a restructuring of ECC. Going forward, ECC will focus our time and expertise on specific parts of the Zcash mission, and help transition other parts to other organizations in the Zcash community.
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.
Should Zcash switch from Proof of Work to Proof of Stake?
ZEC is the engine driving the sustainable growth necessary to provide economic and social freedom for everyone.
ECC Initial Assessment of Community Proposals.
Introduction The Zcash community is making a decision about whether to create a new development fund and use it to […]
Zcash Company Statement on ASICs
We hear the distress and confusion from members of the community, especially those who have been mining Zcash with GPUs, […]
Gemini Announces Support for Zcash
Today, Gemini Trust Company, LLC (Gemini) announced support for Zcash trading and custody. This marks only the third virtual commodity […]
Zcash Invests in StarkWare Industries
Today we are happy to announce that the Zcash Company has invested in StarkWare Industries, a new company developing STARKs. […]
Maintaining Privacy
We support science. Open scientific investigation is the only way for developers to learn what works and what doesn’t work […]
2018 Zcash Security Audit Overview
Our mission is to empower everyone with economic freedom and opportunity. In the service of that mission, we have published […]
2018 Zcash Security Audit Details
We at Zcash are committed to the security and safety of our user community as we seek to empower everyone […]
Overwinter
Announcing Zcash Overwinter, the first “software-updates-required” network upgrade for Zcash. The purpose of Overwinter is to strengthen the protocol for […]