Update: ECC proposals and plans for decentralizing Zcash and future focus
This blog post is intended to provide more detail and an update on ECC's current plans. We welcome the community’s feedback.
ECC roadmap calls for focus on wallet, proof of stake and interoperability
It has become clear that the best way for ECC to contribute to the Zcash community over the next three years is to release an official ECC wallet on top of a highly interoperable Zcash protocol that leverages proof-of-stake consensus.
ECC’s North Star: Building a world-class UX for ZEC
Last week, in our tertile planning sessions, we set a multi-year “North Star” and codified our plans across departments for the next four months. Everything we do will be in support of this focus: To deliver a world-class user experience for ZEC.
Coin-holder poll: results summary
In ECC's coin-holder poll, participants strongly supported changing Zcash’s mining algorithm away from proof of work as their first priority as measured by weight, receiving 85% of the weighted vote.
ECC Engineering flight plan: Mid-horizon update
In our 2019 Q4 livestream, we mapped out our Engineering flight plan aimed at advancing the future of Zcash across […]
Sapling
By now, you have probably heard about Sapling, the second “software-updates-required” network upgrade for Zcash. Sapling introduces significant efficiency improvements […]
What’s New in Sapling
The next major upgrade of Zcash, codenamed Sapling, is scheduled to activate in October 2018. The specific block height has […]
Zcash Company Proposed Roadmap
Subsequent to its founding in 2015, the Zcash Company built and then launched the Zcash protocol in October 2016. Since […]
Overwinter
Announcing Zcash Overwinter, the first “software-updates-required” network upgrade for Zcash. The purpose of Overwinter is to strengthen the protocol for […]
Zcash for Everyone
Since Zcash launched a little more than a year ago, our world-class engineering team has executed beautifully: on-boarding countless new […]