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 […]
Turnstile Enforcement Against Counterfeiting
The Electric Coin Company has developed consensus code that preserves the Zcash monetary base in the event of a counterfeiting […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Sapling Addresses & Turnstile Migration
The Sapling network upgrade is a major feature enhancement to the Zcash network targeted to activate on October 28th, 2018. […]
Perspectives on Sapling
Last week we introduced a video series called Perspectives. These short interviews were conducted at Zcon0 on various topics relevant […]
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 […]
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 – […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]