Tag: Halo

A look back: NU5 and network sandblasting

This post details ECC’s motivations, challenges, and accomplishments with regard to zcashd Network Upgrade 5 (NU5) and the sandblasting attack.

NU5, the first major upgrade since November 2020, includes the launch of the Orchard shielded payment protocol, utilizing the Halo

During the course of testing NU5, a consensus bug emerged that caused the testnet chain to fork. The ECC Core

We had many successes in 2021 across all of our engineering-related teams including Core, Mobile, and DevSecOps, a team comprising

The new April activation target for NU5 will correspond with the release of the Halo Arc product suite, which includes

Electric Coin Co. (ECC) has entered into an agreement with Protocol Labs, the Filecoin Foundation, and the Ethereum Foundation to

We’re introducing “auto-shielding” in our mobile wallet SDKs and unified addresses at the Zcash protocol level. In supporting wallets, these

NU5 will move Zcash to the Halo proving system, representing the continual evolution of our zk-SNARK technology stack. Unified addresses

As the first implementation of Halo within Zcash, this would serve as a catalyst for Zcash user confidence and scalability,

The Halo 2 zero-knowledge proving system, invented and developed at Electric Coin Co. (ECC), eliminates the trusted setup, reducing the

For the Halo 2 project, we have designed a new cycle of elliptic curves, Pallas and Vesta, which we collectively

Last year, our team announced a collection of discoveries and research milestones as part of our Scalability 2021 mission for