New Release: 4.1.0

Migration to Clang and static libc++ zcashd now builds its C++ (and C) dependencies entirely with a pinned version of […]

New Release: 4.1.0

Canopy security assessment complete

Electric Coin Co. once again engaged the cryptography group at NCC, this time to review our upcoming Canopy (NU4) network […]

Canopy security assessment complete

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