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General

News and notes about Electric Coin Company and its work on Zcash

We’re fortunate to have some of the most talented engineers and cryptographers in the world on our team, and while 2020 was a challenging year on many fronts, we continued to make tremendous progress in both R&D and engineering, which we feel will benefit Zcash for years to come.

As the first implementation of Halo within Zcash, this would serve as a catalyst for Zcash user confidence and scalability, while making the protocol more attractive, faster and less expensive for others to build on.

The Halo 2 zero-knowledge proving system, invented and developed at Electric Coin Co. (ECC), eliminates the trusted setup, reducing the attack surface of the Zcash protocol and improving assurance about ZEC supply integrity.

New release 4.2.0 removes the zcashd dependency upon libsodium for ed25519 signature checks and instead uses the Rust implementation in ed25519-zebra, which has been active for signature verification since the Canopy upgrade.

This ECC Transparency Report details company income, expenses and use of funds during Q2 of 2020.

Following the example of Vitalik Buterin’s Gitcoin Grant retros, this post summarizes the projects funded and lessons learned from the first Zcash Gitcoin Grant Round.

For the Halo 2 project, we have designed a new cycle of elliptic curves, Pallas and Vesta, which we collectively refer to as the Pasta curves.

In this blog, we cover the milestones, the ecosystem growth and the community achievements over the past year.

This is a hotfix release that addresses a performance regression in v4.1.0. It is recommended that either v4.0.0 or this […]

Unstoppable became the first multi-currency wallet to enable shielded Zcash transactions. Thiis an important milestone for shielded addresses, which allow users to send confidential peer-to-peer transactions.