NU5 will move Zcash to the Halo proving system, representing the continual evolution of our zk-SNARK technology stack. Unified addresses introduce a future-proof address format that prioritizes shielded adoption.
Zcash Improvement Proposals (ZIPs) for Network Upgrade 5 (NU5), projected to be August 2021. ECC’s proposals for inclusion of the ZIPs outlined here are subject to the outcome of security audits, the results of which will be published as soon as they’ve been completed and reviewed.
The latest release includes traffic improvements, a reworked library and other updates.
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.
Security is paramount to the success of Zcash and ECC, and as such, we invest significant resources into security.
Migration to Clang and static libc++ zcashd now builds its C++ (and C) dependencies entirely with a pinned version of Clang, and statically links libc++ instead of dynamically linking libstdc++.
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
Network Upgrade 4: Canopy The 4.0.0 release supports the Canopy activation on mainnet, which will occur at a block height of 1046400 (mid-November), following the targeted EOS halt of our
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
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
Luxor Mining Pool has mined the first Zcash block to a shielded coinbase at height #949496. Shielded coinbase was enabled with ZIP 213, which was included in Heartwood, the latest
