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
New Release: 2.0.5-2
Note: This release of Zcashd v2.0.5-2 is a hotfix release that all users are encouraged to upgrade to, especially users who built v2.0.5 or v2.0.5-1 from source. We became aware
May 21, 2019
New Release: 2.0.4
This release of Zcashd v2.0.4 fixes a Sprout wallet security bug, fixes miner address selection behaviour and introduces a new consensus rule on testnet to reject blocks that violate turnstiles.
March 27, 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
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
New Release: 1.0.14
Today we’re announcing the release of Zcash 1.0.14, which contains new features, bug fixes, and documentation improvements. Notable changes Incoming viewing keys Support for incoming viewing keys, as described in
January 4, 2018
A Look Back on 2017
2017 has been a year of many firsts for Zcash. Having launched only a couple months before the start of the year, the opportunities for growth and development were already
December 29, 2017
New Release: 1.0.13
Edit 2018-05-31: Auto-senescence terminology changed to “end-of-support halt”. Today we’re announcing the release of Zcash 1.0.13, introducing new features, performance improvements and bug fixes. Our new low-memory prover reduces memory
November 20, 2017
State of the Network: 1 Year
One year ago, we published our very first State of the Network announcing the successful launch of Zcash 1.0 “Sprout”. Much of the Zcash team were gathered in the livingroom
October 28, 2017
New Release: 1.0.12
Today we’re announcing the release of Zcash 1.0.12, which includes bug fixes and usability improvements. It also adds a new RPC method z_shieldcoinbase as an experimental feature, for easily shielding
September 28, 2017
New Release: 1.0.11
Today we’re announcing the release of Zcash 1.0.11, which includes bug fixes and usability improvements. Summary of the changes included in this release: We fixed a 401 Unauthorized bug encountered
August 16, 2017
