Zcash’s next major upgrade, codenamed Sapling, will be activated later this year. One of our final goals before activation is the completion of a multi-party computation ceremony which produces the
Zcash’s shielded transactions rely on zk-SNARKs — small, fast-to-verify zero-knowledge proofs of arbitrarily complicated statements. These proving schemes rely on a set of public parameters that can be used to
zk-SNARKs – the zero-knowledge proofs at the core of Zcash – require a parameter generation ceremony to take place for every statement that you wish to create proofs about. Although
The Zcash team has been working to finalize the software for the launch of the Zcash blockchain. We are planning to make the launch release available on the morning (PDT)
Update: Read our full summary of what took place in the Zcash Parameter Generation Ceremony. The Toxic Waste, and Other Ways To Counterfeit Zcash As we’ve mentioned in a previous
At its core, Zcash’s privacy technology relies on a novel cryptographic tool called a zkSNARK – a small zero-knowledge proof that is cheap to verify. Zcash will be the first
There are a lot of cryptographic challenges to making a fully secure and reliable open financial system. Our current top priority in the Zcash development process is to securely generate
