Bellman: zk-SNARKs in Rust
Bellman is a Rust-language library for building zk-SNARKs — small, cheap-to-verify zero-knowledge proofs of arbitrary computations. The goal of bellman is to make it easier for the general public to
April 4, 2017
State of the Network: 1,000,000 ZEC Edition
The Zcash blockchain has completed the distribution of the first 1,000,000 Zcash coins. Only 20,000,000 more to go! Now’s a good time for your irregularly scheduled “State of the Network”
April 2, 2017
BIP199 for Hashed Timelocked Contracts
Hashed Timelocked Contracts (HTLC) are a well-known and simple technique for building protocols for atomic swaps. They allow you to pay another party for some information (generally, a key) with
March 29, 2017
Explaining SNARKs Part III: The Knowledge of Coefficient Test and Assumption
<< Part II In Part II, we saw how Alice can blindly evaluate the hiding :math:`E(P(s))` of her polynomial :math:`P` of degree :math:`d`, at a point :math:`s` belonging to Bob.
March 28, 2017
New Release: 1.0.8
Today we’re announcing the release of Zcash 1.0.8. This release focuses on backporting features from upstream Bitcoin and usability improvements to the RPC interface. Summary of the changes in this
March 27, 2017
ZSL: zk-SNARKs for the Enterprise
The Zerocoin Electric Coin Company’s primary focus is – and always will be – developing and supporting Zcash. However, as a startup that needs to generate revenue in order to
March 23, 2017
Spinning Off Our Sibling Company
The Zcash company grew out of a company named “Least Authority”. It was when we were Least Authority that we did a security audit of Ethereum and several other successful
March 20, 2017
Announcing the Zcash Foundation
Our Mission is to give every person in the world economic freedom — to do for cooperation what the Internet did for communication. The organization we created to launch this
March 17, 2017
Explaining SNARKs Part II: Blind Evaluation of Polynomials
<< Part I In this post, we recall the notion of a polynomial, and explain the notion of “blind evaluation” of a polynomial, and how it is implemented using Homomorphic
March 13, 2017
BLS12-381: New zk-SNARK Elliptic Curve Construction
Our team is continually working to improve the security, performance and usability of our privacy-preserving shielded transactions. As we mentioned in our near future priorities blog post, we are working
March 11, 2017
R3 Report on Confidentiality & Privacy for Blockchains
Last year, R3 commissioned us to co-author (along with Danny Yang, founder of blockchain analytics company Blockseer) a report that compares and contrasts the different techniques for making blockchains more
March 8, 2017
New Release: 1.0.7
Today we’re announcing the release of Zcash 1.0.7. This release focuses on updating Zcash to be compatible with upstream changes, fixing bugs, and adding alerts, tests, and checkpoints. Upcoming Testnet
March 6, 2017
