ZSAs: ECC progress and next steps
In line with ECC’s shift to a market- and user-driven product strategy, we continue to gather information to guide next steps with regard to Zcash Shielded Assets (ZSAs, or UDAs
September 2, 2021
Let’s give ZEC holders a voice
ECC will facilitate a non-binding coin-weighted ZECholder poll ahead of NU5 activation to gather sentiment regarding the development priorities for Zcash and Chris Burniske’s proposal to amend ZIP 1014.
August 31, 2021
What would a Zcash Proof-of-Stake transition look like?
A successful transition to Proof of Stake would necessarily require support from Zcash users, a legitimate governance process, and a well designed technical migration process. This post outlines what the technical migration process might look like at the top level.
August 16, 2021
New releases to help enable Zcash Shielded by Default
We’re introducing “auto-shielding” in our mobile wallet SDKs and unified addresses at the Zcash protocol level. In supporting wallets, these two features ensure your Zcash transaction and balance information is automatically encrypted — Shielded by Default — in the latest, most secure shielded pool.
August 11, 2021
ECC transitions to user-focused product strategy
ECC is transitioning from an engineering-led to a market-led product strategy. This blog provides a summary of what that means and outlines our current priorities.
August 9, 2021
Should Zcash switch from Proof of Work to Proof of Stake?
ZEC is the engine driving the sustainable growth necessary to provide economic and social freedom for everyone.
August 3, 2021
Privacy-leak bug discovered in Nighthawk and ECC wallets
Nighthawk Wallet iOS and ECC Reference Wallet iOS users should upgrade to the latest versions in order to remediate a security vulnerability. No other wallets are affected by this bug,
July 13, 2021
New Release 4.4.1
The 4.3.0 release included a change to prevent redundant getheaders P2P requests, to reduce node bandwidth usage. This behaviour could be disabled by setting the config option -nooptimize-getheaders.
June 15, 2021
ECC exploring Zcash-Shielded Assets
For some time, ECC has been considering the possibility of implementing Zcash UDAs (“User-Defined Assets”) to allow the creation of Zcash-“wrapped” tokens. We’re excited about the potential benefits of an economically extensible Zcash protocol made possible with what we’re calling ZSAs.
June 2, 2021
Zcash is ideal for digital payments
Digital payments need to be fast, affordable, confidential and inclusive. When compared to other financial tools, Zcash offers competitive, if not superior, benefits in each of these categories.
May 27, 2021
Bringing Crypto into Context
Twenty-five students registered for the course at BCC, and 23 students showed up for the first session. Over half of the students participated in all six Saturday sessions, and more than 65 percent of students attended at least five classes. These students were often juggling part-time jobs, young children and other responsibilities.
May 6, 2021
New Release 4.4.0
zcashd can now be configured to optionally expose an HTTP server that acts as a Prometheus scrape endpoint. The server will respond to GET requests on any request path.
April 16, 2021
