Perspectives on the White House executive order on digital assets

Perspective on White House executive order: In fact, does not appear to perceive digital assets as a new technology that needs to be promoted and nurtured for the benefit of society. Instead, digital assets are being treated as a somewhat inconvenient and unwelcome technological development.

Perspectives on the White House executive order on digital assets

NU5 activation and Halo Arc release delayed for remediation of consensus bug in testnet

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

NU5 activation and Halo Arc release delayed for remediation of consensus bug in testnet

ECC Engineering: Year in Review

We had many successes in 2021 across all of our engineering-related teams including Core, Mobile, and DevSecOps, a team comprising what was previously the separate DevInfra and Security teams. These successes included the regular cadence of releases as well as breakthrough cryptographic research, developments to move the shielded wallet ecosystem forward, operational enhancements and advancements, and a continued demonstration of our commitment to security best practices, ensuring safe and secure releases and network upgrades. 

ECC Engineering: Year in Review

ECC Partnerships: Year in Review

Delivering economic freedom requires a community of teams coming together to share technologies, talents and ideas. For this reason, Electric […]

ECC Partnerships: Year in Review

New Release 4.6.0-1

TL;DR: The 4.5.0, 4.5.1, and 4.5.1-1 zcashd nodes will reach End of Service on or about January 10th, 2022. Prior to that time, miners must upgrade to 4.6.0-1 and all other testnet and mainnet nodes should upgrade to either 4.6.0 or 4.6.0-1.

New Release 4.6.0-1

New Release 4.6.0

TL;DR: The 4.5.0, 4.5.1, and 4.5.1-1 zcashd nodes will reach End of Service on or about January 10, 2022. Prior […]

New Release 4.6.0

ECC Transparency Report for Q2 2021

ECC and its parent 501(c)3 Bootstrap received coins at a value above the operating-expense level for Q2 2021. During Q2 2021 Bootstrap received coins at an average of $1,438,000 a month and incurred average monthly expenses of approximately $655,000.

ECC Transparency Report for Q2 2021

NU5 and Halo Arc timeline update

The new April activation target for NU5 will correspond with the release of the Halo Arc product suite, which includes an NU5-compatible Zcashd, an updated ECC Reference Wallet, updated mobile wallet SDKs, and features that will enable Zcash to be Shielded by Default.

NU5 and Halo Arc timeline update

ZSAs update: ECC research and paths forward

As part of our due diligence, we embarked on sentiment gathering, market research and economic modeling to better understand the possibilities of ZSAs and tradeoffs of different approaches.

ZSAs update: ECC research and paths forward

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 roadmap calls for focus on wallet, proof of stake and interoperability

ECC, Agoric and a path to composable smart contracts using ZEC

Agoric could be game-changing, both in itself as well as for ZEC users. Now that the Agoric mainnet has launched, we are ready to take the next step of bringing Agoric and Zcash capabilities together.

ECC, Agoric and a path to composable smart contracts using ZEC

NU5 security assessments complete

NU5 security assessments are complete, and no serious or critical issues were found in either audit.

NU5 security assessments complete