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
Turnstile Enforcement Against Counterfeiting
The Electric Coin Company has developed consensus code that preserves the Zcash monetary base in the event of a counterfeiting compromise within Zcash’s shielded supply. We intend to deploy this
March 22, 2019
Reducing Shielded Proving Time in Sapling
Since the successful Sapling network upgrade, we have already seen an increased adoption of shielded addresses in the Zcash ecosystem. Services like mining pools are beginning to offer shielded address
December 17, 2018
Sapling in HD
Broader ecosystem adoption of shielded addresses through the implementation of faster zk-SNARKs has been a highlight of the Sapling network upgrade. However, there are supplemental enhancements introduced for Sapling shielded addresses which further optimize
October 26, 2018
Sapling Transaction Anatomy
With the Sapling activation approaching, we’re continuing our education on what users and third-party services can expect. We recently announced the Sapling turnstile and what users should anticipate with this
October 16, 2018
Sapling Addresses & Turnstile Migration
The Sapling network upgrade is a major feature enhancement to the Zcash network targeted to activate on October 28th, 2018. We’ve outlined the usability and security improvements coming with Sapling
September 11, 2018
Perspectives on Sapling
Last week we introduced a video series called Perspectives. These short interviews were conducted at Zcon0 on various topics relevant to the Zcash community. Yesterday, the Zcash Company released the
August 17, 2018
Selective Disclosure & Shielded Viewing Keys
Encryption is an important tool to control access to personal and business data. In many cases where private data must be shared with select people such as a long distance
January 22, 2018
Explaining SNARKs Part VII: Pairings of Elliptic Curves
<< Part VI In Part VI, we saw an outline of the Pinocchio zk-SNARK. We were missing two things – an HH that supports both addition and multiplication that is
June 7, 2017
Explaining SNARKs Part VI: The Pinocchio Protocol
<< Part V In part V we saw how a statement Alice would like to prove to Bob can be converted into an equivalent form in the “language of polynomials”
May 10, 2017
Explaining SNARKs Part V: From Computations to Polynomials
<< Part IV In the three previous parts, we developed a certain machinery for dealing with polynomials. In this part, we show how to translate statements we would like to
April 25, 2017
Payment Contexts & Reusing Shielded Addresses
The privacy provided in Zcash allows users to disclose a shielded payment address publicly or to multiple individuals without the worry of transactions sent to that address becoming linked in
April 19, 2017
