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- Category: General
- Building sustainability and resilience into ‘Dev Fund 2’
- The Trailing Finality Layer: A stepping stone to proof of stake in Zcash
- A proposal for shared ownership and resilience of Zcash-focused digital properties
- Update: ECC proposals and plans for decentralizing Zcash and future focus
- ECC Transparency Report for Q4 2022
- New z.cash website launches, built to grow
- New Release 5.6.0
- ECC restructuring to better serve Zcash
- New Release 5.5.0
- ECC Transparency Report for Q3 2022
- Update: Addressing Zcash wallet performance issues
- New releases remediate memory exhaustion vulnerability in Zcash
- ECC’s public policy efforts continue with launch of the PGP* for Crypto Podcast
- New Release 5.4.0
- Dubai’s virtual asset regulation framework raises privacy concerns
- ECC Transparency Report for Q2 2022
- Halo’s contribution goes beyond efficiency
- Electric Coin Co. strategy: A 30-year vision
- New release 5.3.0
- ECC Transparency Report for Q1 2022
- US Treasury announcement: ECC’s engagement on policy for economic freedom
- Long-term sustainability with the Zcash Posterity Fund
- New Release 5.2.0
- New Release 5.1.0
- ECC Transparency Report for Q4 2021
- Manian joins Bootstrap Board of Directors
- Proof of Stake: Approach, focus, and next steps
- Not private enough: Mixers and decoys won’t protect you for long
- Perspectives on why NU5 is a historic step forward for human society
- NU5 activates on mainnet, eliminating trusted setup and launching a new era for Zcash
- Zcash Proof-of-Stake Research
- BOSL exceptions added for Zcash projects and friendly forks
- ZSAs and Zcash Economics
- New Release 5.0.0
- New Release 4.7.0
- Zero-knowledge proving system ‘Halo’ now licensed under MIT or Apache 2.0, making it available for anyone to use
- New Release 4.6.0-2
- ECC Transparency Report for Q3 2021
- Perspectives on the White House executive order on digital assets
- NU5 activation and Halo Arc release delayed for remediation of consensus bug in testnet
- ECC Engineering: Year in Review
- ECC Partnerships: Year in Review
- New Release 4.6.0-1
- New Release 4.6.0
- ECC Transparency Report for Q2 2021
- NU5 and Halo Arc timeline update
- ZSAs update: ECC research and paths forward
- ECC roadmap calls for focus on wallet, proof of stake and interoperability
- ECC, Agoric and a path to composable smart contracts using ZEC
- NU5 security assessments complete
- Web surveys provide info on Zcash usage and reputation
- ECC’s North Star: Building a world-class UX for ZEC
- New Release 4.5.1-1
- Coin-holder poll: results summary
- New Release 4.5.1
- ECC Transparency Report for Q4 2020 and Q1 2021
- Zcash coin-holder polling open now
- New Release 4.5.0
- Protocol Labs, Filecoin Foundation, Ethereum Foundation and Electric Coin Co. collaborating to unlock recursion in Halo 2 and explore the future of proofs
- ECC timeline updates and planning for 2022
- ZSAs: ECC progress and next steps
- Let’s give ZEC holders a voice
- What would a Zcash Proof-of-Stake transition look like?
- New releases to help enable Zcash Shielded by Default
- ECC transitions to user-focused product strategy
- Should Zcash switch from Proof of Work to Proof of Stake?
- Privacy-leak bug discovered in Nighthawk and ECC wallets
- New Release 4.4.1
- ECC exploring Zcash-Shielded Assets
- Zcash is ideal for digital payments
- Bringing Crypto into Context
- New Release 4.4.0
- Unified addresses in Zcash explained
- Halo Arc for Zcash proposed for release later this year
- Industry leaders, pioneers join ECC Scientific Advisory Group
- ECC Transparency Report for Q3 2020
- Garman joins ECC Board of Directors
- New Release 4.3.0
- Network Upgrade Pipeline 2.0
- Electric Coin Co. Engineering: 2020, a year in review
- Bringing Halo 2 to Zcash
- Technical explainer: Halo on Zcash
- The troubling facts about the Bittrex announcement that it plans to delist Zcash and others
- New Release 4.2.0
- ECC Transparency Report for Q2 2020
- Fuzzing Zcash with Kubernetes
- Zcash Gitcoin Grants round 1 retrospective
- The Pasta Curves for Halo 2 and Beyond
- The Zcash ecosystem: A 2020 recap
- New Release 4.1.1
- Zcash is Unstoppable: Privacy-focused wallet first to integrate ECC wallet SDKs
- New Release: 4.1.0
- ECC owners approve donation to Bootstrap Project, seed Board
- Gitcoin Grants launches $25k matching pool for Zcash
- Celebrate Zcash’s birthday with Flexa and Baskin Robbins
- Privacy is normal, safe and essential
- ECC’s owners to donate ECC
- Open-source wallet apps localized into 5 additional languages
- ECC Transparency Report for Q1 2020
- Gemini becomes first regulated institution to support shielded Zcash withdrawals
- ECC welcomes the Major Grants Review Committee
- Refining and recommitting to the ECC mission
- FATF’s plans to regulate peer-to-peer transactions
- Introducing BOSL, a radically new type of open-source license
- New Release: 4.0.0
- Explaining Halo 2
- ECC releases code for Halo 2
- Luxor mines the first shielded coinbase
- Celebrating Canopy and Community
- ECC partners with industry leaders and community leaders to launch Crypto in Context program
- Protect Privacy hackathon winners and recap
- Zcash privacy remains strongest of any cryptocurrency, even with recent Chainalysis, Elliptic support
- ECC Transparency Report for Q4 2019
- Kubernetes and blockchains at ECC
- ECC Wallet threat model and security assessment results
- 7 things we learned building the shielded-first ECC Wallet
- The upside of quadratic funding for the Zcash ecosystem
- Protect Privacy: Virtual hackathon starts June 15
- New Release: 3.0.0
- Explaining viewing keys
- Zcash Developer Alliance brings together industry leaders to focus on interoperability
- NU4 feature selection
- Zcash is for economic freedom, and that’s worth protecting
- The state of Zcash adoption
- Building on Zcash: Resources and initiatives
- New Release: 2.1.2
- Open-sourcing ECC Wallet
- New Zcash light client support resources and documentation
- Mine to Shielded Coinbase
- Explaining FlyClient
- ECC Transparency Report for Q3 2019
- Introducing Heartwood
- Supporting families affected by COVID-19
- ECC Engineering flight plan: Mid-horizon update
- ECC scaling research: 2019 research & development milestones
- New Releases: 2.1.1 and hotfix 2.1.1-1
- Dev Fund poll shows consensus
- Security assessments: NU3 specifications, Blossom implementation and Sapling documentation
- ECC releases resources for building mobile, shielded-Zcash wallets
- Introducing monthly Zcash community calls
- Manian joins Electric Coin Co. technical advisory board
- Dev Funds Should Be in Zcash, Not United States Dollars
- ECC Transparency Report for Q2 2019
- ECC Response to Zcash Community Polling Results
- Fellowship of the ZEC
- Blossom upgrade improves speed, scalability, capacity
- ECC R&D and Engineering Flight Plan for 2020
- Electric Coin Co. livestream roundup
- New Release: 2.1.0-1
- New Release: 2.1.0
- Electric Coin Co. donates Zcash trademark to Zcash Foundation
- Binance.US lists ZEC, validating work and compliance
- New Release: 2.0.7-3
- How Zcash is Compliant with the FATF Recommendations
- An Update from ECC on the Initial Assessment of Community Proposals
- The Underestimated: Crypto in Context
- The FATF Recommendations
- Halo: Recursive Proof Composition without a Trusted Setup
- New Release: 2.0.7-2
- Electric Coin Company Q3 2019 Transparency Report
- ECC Initial Assessment of Community Proposals.
- New Release: 2.0.7
- A Blank Slate: The Community to Decide its Future
- Electric Coin Company Statement on Sustainability
- Zcash Now Supported in Flexa’s SPEDN Wallet
- Animating Zcash
- Zcash to 10 billion
- Blossom Network Upgrade and Wallet Security Audits
- We’re hiring!
- New Release: 2.0.6
- ECC: All in on ZEC
- The Electric Coin Company Has a New Look
- Sprout-to-Sapling Migration Tool
- New Release: 2.0.5-2
- The Earn Zcash Campaign is a Success
- Electric Coin Company Q2 2019 Transparency Report
- Zcash Empowers Charitable Giving
- People Behind Zcash Technology: Jack Grigg, Engineer
- New Release: 2.0.4
- Turnstile Enforcement Against Counterfeiting
- Zcash is Compatible with AML/CFT Regulation
- Announcing the Electric Coin Company Board of Directors
- People Behind Zcash Technology: Eirik Ogilvie-Wigley, Engineer
- Sharing Responsibility
- Goodbye, Zcash Company.
Hello, Electric Coin Company. - Earn ZEC on Coinbase While You Learn About Zcash
- New Release: 2.0.3
- People Behind Zcash Technology: Marshall Gaucher, Engineer
- Zcash Shielded Addresses are GDPR Compliant by Default
- 2018 Security Audit Results Overview
- People Behind Zcash Technology: Daira Hopwood, Engineer and Protocol Designer
- How to Donate Cryptocurrency to Help Venezuelans Right Now
- Galaxy Digital Begins OTC Trading of Zcash
- 2019 Zcash Go-to-Market
- Quarterly Update: Perspective on the Market Evolution
- 2018 Zcash Marketing: Year in Review
- New Release: 2.0.2
- Coinbase Announces Support for Zcash
- Zcash Reference Wallet Design
- Reinforcing the Security of the Sapling MPC
- Zcash Strategy Update, November 2018
- Perspectives on Barriers to Adoption and Disintermediation from Carlson
- Zcash Company Continues to Attract Talent
- Introducing the Zcash Reference Wallet
- Sapling Activation Complete
- Sapling in HD
- Perspectives on Zcash Origins from Tromer
- Perspectives on Driving Adoption and Emerging Markets from Carlson
- Sapling Transaction Anatomy
- New Release: 2.0.1
- Everyone.
- Perspectives on Regulation from Van Valkenburgh
- Perspectives on Privacy and Regulation from Gavigan and Bowe
- Perspectives on Governance from Wilcox, Zeppettini, Buterin
- Sapling Addresses & Turnstile Migration
- Perspectives on Privacy from Linda Xie, Zooko Wilcox, and Eran Tromer
- Perspectives on AirTM and JP Morgan
- Sapling
- Perspectives on Privacy from Peter Van Valkenburgh and Jill Carlson
- Perspectives on Sapling
- Zcash Community Perspectives
- BitGo Adds Zcash
- Coinbase Exploring Zcash
- What’s New in Sapling
- Overwinter Activated Successfully
- Zcash Company Proposed Roadmap
- Zcash Company Response to Secret Service Recommendation
- New Release: 1.1.1
- Zcash Company Invests in Agoric
- Zcash Company Statement on ASICs
- Gemini Announces Support for Zcash
- Zcash Invests in StarkWare Industries
- Maintaining Privacy
- Hello, Circle
- Zcash Community Spotlight: Guarda Wallet
- Eye-opening Travel and a Mission Validated
- New Release: 1.1.0
- 2018 Zcash Security Audit Overview
- Zcash Team Grows with New Hires in Q1 2018
- Overwinter
- New Release: 1.0.15
- Pay for Private Internet Access Using Shielded Transactions
- Selective Disclosure & Shielded Viewing Keys
- Introducing Our UX Guidelines for Wallet Developers
- New Release: 1.0.14
- A Look Back on 2017
- Zcash for Everyone
- New Empirical Research into Zcash Privacy
- New Zcash Team Member Announcement
- New Release: 1.0.13
- UX evaluation of OpenBazaar
- Grayscale Launches Zcash Investment Trust
- Improved zk-SNARK Multi-party Computation Protocol
- State of the Network: 1 Year
- Zerocoin Electric Coin Company Integrates Zero-knowledge Security Technology on J.P. Morgan’s Quorum
- Zcash on CEX.IO
- Crypto is currency: spend your ZEC!
- New Release: 1.0.12
- Zcash on Bithumb
- Release Cycle Update
- Ceremony Audit Results
- Ethereum Adoption of zk-SNARK Technology
- Cultivating Sapling: Faster zk-SNARKs
- Zcash on Bitpie
- An Update on Atomic Trades
- Celebrating the Zcash Developer Community
- A usability evaluation of the Jaxx and Cryptonator cryptocurrency wallets
- Cryptocurrency UX Challenges
- A Preliminary UX Survey of the Zcash Ecosystem
- New Release: 1.0.11
- New Release: 1.0.10-1
- New Release: 1.0.10
- Zcash Global Growth
- Pay-to-sudoku Revisited
- New Release: 1.0.9
- Press release: Zero-knowledge Security Layer to be Added to Quorum Blockchain Platform
- Getting Started Developing with Zcash
- Release Cycle and Lifetimes
- Internet Money
- Payment Contexts & Reusing Shielded Addresses
- Zcash in Brazil and South Africa
- Zcash 1.0.9 Postponed
- Zcash on iOS
- New Release: 1.0.8-1
- Security Announcement 2017-04-13
- Security Announcement 2017-04-12
- State of the Network: 1,000,000 ZEC Edition
- BIP199 for Hashed Timelocked Contracts
- New Release: 1.0.8
- ZSL: zk-SNARKs for the Enterprise
- Spinning Off Our Sibling Company
- Announcing the Zcash Foundation
- R3 Report on Confidentiality & Privacy for Blockchains
- New Release: 1.0.7
- A Shielded Ecosystem
- History of Hash Function Attacks
- The Near Future of Zcash
- New Release: 1.0.6
- Transaction Linkability
- New Release: 1.0.5
- An Update on Integrating Zcash on Ethereum (ZoE)
- A Future Friendly Fork
- New Release: 1.0.4
- The Encrypted Memo Field
- Announcing the Winners of the Open Source Miner Challenge!
- Anatomy of A Zcash Transaction
- Security Announcement 2016-11-22
- The Zcash Equihash Analysis
- New Release: 1.0.3
- Founders’ Reward Transfers
- New Release: 1.0.2
- New Release: 1.0.1
- State of the Network
- Third Party Support at Launch
- Zcash Sprout Launch
- Zcash begins
- Zcash Audit Results
- New Release Candidate: Final zk-SNARK parameters
- The Design of the Ceremony
- 2 Days to Enter the Miner Challenge
- New Release Candidate: Less than One Week to Launch
- User Expectations at Sprout Pt. 2: Software Usability and Hardware Requirements
- Zcash Evolution
- Deterministic Builds in Zcash
- New Beta Release: Fixes, Packaging and Launch Preparation
- Open Source Miner Submissions Are Live
- User Expectations at Sprout Pt. 1: Slow-Start Mining & Mining Ecosystem
- Consensual Currency
- New Beta Release: Audit Mitigations and Bug Fixes
- Accepting Submissions: Zcash Open Source Miner Challenge
- Continued Funding and Transparency
- Announcing the Zcash Open Source Miner Contest
- Introducing Project Alchemy
- New Beta Release: Announcing the Zcash Beta Series
- Expanding Zcash Content: Russian, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese
- Supporting Coin Center
- Announcing Zcash New Team Members
- The Metamorphosis of Malleable Transactions
- Taylor’s Next Adventure
- New Alpha Release: Solidifying the Consensus Protocol
- Auditing Zcash
- Zcash Launch and Roadmap
- New Alpha Release: Optimization and Non-malleability
- BOLT: Private Payment Channels
- zkSNARKs in Ethereum
- Science Roundup
- New Alpha Release: Terminology and Security
- The Z.cash Website is Now in Both English and Chinese
- New Alpha Release: 2MB blocks
- New Alpha Release: Faster Block Times
- New Alpha Release: Mining Slow Start
- Hiring
- New Alpha Release: libzcash
- Announcing Zcash Sprout
- Why Equihash?
- New Alpha Release: Equihash and Founders’ Reward
- Science Roundup
- How To Generate SNARK Parameters Securely
- Welcoming Jack Grigg
- Funding, Incentives, and Governance
- Hello, World!
- Category: Opinion
- Category: Privacy
- Category: Technical
- NU5 Proposed Features
- New Release 3.1.0
- Heartwood security assessment turns up no major issues
- New Release: 2.1.2-3
- The Zcash Reference Wallet Is Here!
- Zcash Counterfeiting Vulnerability Successfully Remediated
- 2018 Security Audit Results in Detail
- Final Blossom Goals
- Zcash Reference Wallet Light Client Protocol
- Reducing Shielded Proving Time in Sapling
- The Zcash Network Upgrade Pipeline
- Defense Against Counterfeiting in Shielded Pools
- New Release: 2.0.0
- Completion of the Sapling MPC
- New Release: 1.1.2
- Zcash Sapling Activation Delayed
- Transaction Expiry
- Announcing the Sapling MPC
- Updated Zcash UX Guidelines for Wallet Developers
- 2018 Zcash Security Audit Details
- Cultivating Sapling: New Crypto Foundations
- Explaining SNARKs Part VII: Pairings of Elliptic Curves
- Explaining SNARKs Part VI: The Pinocchio Protocol
- Explaining SNARKs Part V: From Computations to Polynomials
- Explaining SNARKs Part IV: How to make Blind Evaluation of Polynomials Verifiable
- Bellman: zk-SNARKs in Rust
- Explaining SNARKs Part III: The Knowledge of Coefficient Test and Assumption
- Explaining SNARKs Part II: Blind Evaluation of Polynomials
- BLS12-381: New zk-SNARK Elliptic Curve Construction
- Explaining SNARKs Part I: Homomorphic Hidings
- Lessons From The History Of Attacks On Secure Hash Functions
- How Transactions Between Shielded Addresses Work
- Zcash Parameters And How They Will Be Generated
- Pairing cryptography in Rust
- Fixing Vulnerabilities in the Zcash Protocol
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