Announcing the Zcash Foundation

Our Mission is to give every person in the world economic freedom — to do for cooperation what the Internet […]

Announcing the Zcash Foundation

Lessons From The History Of Attacks On Secure Hash Functions

This document is a work-in-progress. Please contact the author if you see errors or omissions. Summary Most of the secure […]

Lessons From The History Of Attacks On Secure Hash Functions

History of Hash Function Attacks

The SHA-1 hash function, which has long been considered insecure, is now officially broken as of yesterday. Given the renewed […]

History of Hash Function Attacks

The Near Future of Zcash

Our Mission is to make Zcash the premier platform for commerce — secure, borderless, and available equally to every person […]

The Near Future of Zcash

A Future Friendly Fork

See also a related post: Consensual Currency. “Forks” (or “hard-forks”) are a highly contentious topic in cryptocurrencies. You can analyze […]

A Future Friendly Fork

The Encrypted Memo Field

As of October 28, 2016, Zcash is a reality! Anybody with Internet access can download the software, connect to the […]

The Encrypted Memo Field

State of the Network

The launch of Zcash 1.0 “Sprout” worked! The blockchain is live. Mining and transactions are working. This is a brief […]

State of the Network

Zcash begins

The Zcash blockchain is live! We released the genesis block this morning, and people all around our planet have begun […]

Zcash begins

The Design of the Ceremony

Update: Read our full summary of what took place in the Zcash Parameter Generation Ceremony. The Toxic Waste, and Other […]

The Design of the Ceremony

Consensual Currency

The Zcash cryptocurrency launch is approaching and we’re making progress on our mission to create the first open financial system […]

Consensual Currency

Continued Funding and Transparency

Our mission is to create open financial technology with zero-knowledge privacy, for everyone in the world to use. The first […]

Continued Funding and Transparency

Supporting Coin Center

Last week Coin Center celebrated two years of support and service to the cryptocurrency community. Today we’re announcing that the […]

Supporting Coin Center