
New Release: 4.0.0
Network Upgrade 4: Canopy The 4.0.0 release supports the Canopy activation on mainnet, which will occur at a block height […]

Explaining Halo 2
Last year, our team announced a collection of discoveries and research milestones as part of our Scalability 2021 mission for […]

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 […]

Luxor mines the first shielded coinbase
Luxor Mining Pool has mined the first Zcash block to a shielded coinbase at height #949496. Shielded coinbase was enabled […]

New Release 3.1.0
Network Upgrade 4: Canopy The code preparations for the Canopy network upgrade are finished and included in this release. The […]

Protect Privacy hackathon winners and recap
Gitcoin’s Protect Privacy Hackathon wrapped up last week, and the ECC team is so grateful to have been involved. The […]

Kubernetes and blockchains at ECC
Kubernetes is an open-source project designed to manage containerized workloads. Containerization is a software development approach that allows applications to […]

ECC Wallet threat model and security assessment results
ECC open-sourced our work-in-progress iOS and Android Zcash wallets last week, so it makes sense for the ECC security team […]

Heartwood security assessment turns up no major issues
There’s always a lot going on with the ECC security team, and the last few months have been no exception. […]

7 things we learned building the shielded-first ECC Wallet
Earlier this year, ECC released a suite of libraries for building shielded mobile wallets in support of the shielded-Zcash ecosystem. […]

The upside of quadratic funding for the Zcash ecosystem
Kevin Owocki is CEO of the Gitcoin project whose mission is to “grow open source” and provide economic opportunities for […]

Protect Privacy: Virtual hackathon starts June 15
When we launched Zcash almost four years ago, privacy-preserving, freedom-protecting technologies were too scarce. Then came Cambridge-Analytica, GDPR, and countless […]