Building on Zcash: Resources and initiatives
Zcash turns four years old in October, and there’s never been a better time to be part of the developer community. In this blog post, we outline new resources and
May 1, 2020
Open-sourcing ECC Wallet
At our Q1 2020 live stream, the ECC team unveiled our ECC Wallet along with new resources for mobile wallet developers. ECC Wallet is a fully functional, Android- and iOS-native
April 22, 2020
Mine to Shielded Coinbase
As part of the Heartwood network upgrade, Zcash miners and mining pools will have the option to mine directly to a shielded coinbase. ZIP 213 defines modifications to the Zcash
April 21, 2020
Explaining FlyClient
One of the key improvements in the Heartwood upgrade is FlyClient support, ZIP 221. In this post, we’ll explain the importance of FlyClient, how this research came about and what
March 27, 2020
ECC Engineering flight plan: Mid-horizon update
In our 2019 Q4 livestream, we mapped out our Engineering flight plan aimed at advancing the future of Zcash across a multi-year timeframe. In that presentation, we defined three time
March 3, 2020
ECC scaling research: 2019 research & development milestones
Scaling is a central discussion for blockchain teams and a critical issue that needs to be addressed as this technology matures. ECC has spearheaded groundbreaking research in this area, focusing
March 2, 2020
ECC R&D and Engineering Flight Plan for 2020
During the latest Electric Coin Co. (ECC) quarterly livestream, we shared our R&D and engineering strategy to advance the future of Zcash. In this post, we delve a little deeper
November 22, 2019
New Release: 2.1.0-1
Electric Coin Co. became aware of the following security announcement on the bitcoin-dev mailing list this morning (8th November): https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2019-November/017453.html Upon investigation, the team found that versions of Zcashd prior
November 8, 2019
New Release: 2.0.7-2
Testnet users needed to upgrade to 2.0.7 before Blossom activated. The amount of notice given to these users was brief, so many were not able to upgrade in time. These
September 4, 2019
New Release: 2.0.7
In the v2.0.7 release we have implemented ZIP208 which will take effect when Blossom activates. Upon activation, the block times for Zcash will decrease from 150 seconds to 75 seconds, and the
August 26, 2019
New Release: 2.0.6
This release of zcashd v2.0.6 is a maintenance release, focusing on code clean-ups and minor bug fixes. It precedes v2.0.7 which is planned to include the implementation of the Blossom
July 15, 2019
Sprout-to-Sapling Migration Tool
The Electric Coin Company is pleased to announce the official Sprout-to-Sapling migration tool in the 2.0.5-2 release of zcashd. This tool comes in the form of new RPCs with the
May 21, 2019
