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 […]

New Release: 4.0.0

Explaining Halo 2

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

Explaining Halo 2

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 […]

ECC releases code for Halo 2

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 […]

Luxor mines the first shielded coinbase

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 […]

New Release 3.1.0

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 […]

Protect Privacy hackathon winners and recap

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 […]

Kubernetes and blockchains at ECC

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 […]

ECC Wallet threat model and security assessment results

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. […]

Heartwood security assessment turns up no major issues

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. […]

7 things we learned building the shielded-first ECC Wallet

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 […]

The upside of quadratic funding for the Zcash ecosystem

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 […]

Protect Privacy: Virtual hackathon starts June 15