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Zashi 2.1: Enhanced Privacy with Tor (Beta)

Zashi just expanded its Tor network integration, and it’s yet another quiet game-changer for the privacy-conscious Zcash users. Previously, Tor support in Zashi was limited to fetching ZEC-USD exchange rates,

Private Money in a Public World

In an increasingly connected world, privacy has become one of the defining issues of our time. Nearly every digital interaction—every search, message, location ping, and purchase—leaves behind a trail. These

Zashi & Your Data

Zashi is a privacy-first wallet, and we take that seriously. That means having access to as little data as possible, and being transparent about the data we have access to,

Perspectives on the White House executive order on digital assets

Perspective on White House executive order: In fact, does not appear to perceive digital assets as a new technology that needs to be promoted and nurtured for the benefit of society. Instead, digital assets are being treated as a somewhat inconvenient and unwelcome technological development.

New releases to help enable Zcash Shielded by Default

We’re introducing “auto-shielding” in our mobile wallet SDKs and unified addresses at the Zcash protocol level. In supporting wallets, these two features ensure your Zcash transaction and balance information is automatically encrypted — Shielded by Default — in the latest, most secure shielded pool.

Privacy is normal, safe and essential

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

Gemini becomes first regulated institution to support shielded Zcash withdrawals

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).

Canopy security assessment complete

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

Explaining Halo 2

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

ECC releases code for Halo 2

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