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 following ZIPs are being deployed: ZIP 207: Funding Streams ZIP
July 30, 2020
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 initiative helped broaden the Zcash developer community, and we were
July 18, 2020
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 be “written once, run anywhere.” Nearly all software used today
June 19, 2020
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 to provide some transparency into the work we’ve engaged in
June 18, 2020
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. A recent Heartwood security assessment conducted by independent firm Trail
June 17, 2020
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. We used these wallet libraries to build ECC Wallet, a
June 11, 2020
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 developers. Gitcoin has doled out ~$4.6 million in funding for
June 3, 2020
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 data leaks impacting millions of people all around the world.
May 29, 2020
New Release: 3.0.0
Heartwood activation on mainnet This release supports the Heartwood activation on mainnet, which will occur at a block height of 903000 (mid-July), following the targeted EOS halt of our 2.1.2-3
May 27, 2020
Explaining viewing keys
Viewing keys, detailed in ZIP 310, enable the separation of spending and viewing permissions for Zcash shielded addresses. By creating a separate viewing key, Zcash users can share visibility of
May 18, 2020
New Release: 2.1.2-3
Electric Coin Co. has released zcashd 2.1.2-3, a hotfix that addresses issues identified in the Heartwood activation on testnet. This release fixes a crash on testnet that v2.1.2 nodes are
May 8, 2020
NU4 feature selection
As part of the Zcash Improvement Proposal and Network Upgrade Pipeline, Electric Coin Co. (ECC) is publishing our commitment of company resources to proposals for the Network Upgrade 4 (NU4),
May 7, 2020
