Update: ECC proposals and plans for decentralizing Zcash and future focus

This blog post is intended to provide more detail and an update on ECC's current plans. We welcome the community’s feedback.

Update: ECC proposals and plans for decentralizing Zcash and future focus

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’s North Star: Building a world-class UX for ZEC

Last week, in our tertile planning sessions, we set a multi-year “North Star” and codified our plans across departments for the next four months. Everything we do will be in support of this focus: To deliver a world-class user experience for ZEC. 

ECC’s North Star: Building a world-class UX for ZEC

Coin-holder poll: results summary

In ECC's coin-holder poll, participants strongly supported changing Zcash’s mining algorithm away from proof of work as their first priority as measured by weight, receiving 85% of the weighted vote.

Coin-holder poll: results summary

ECC Engineering flight plan: Mid-horizon update

In our 2019 Q4 livestream, we mapped out our Engineering flight plan aimed at advancing the future of Zcash across […]

ECC Engineering flight plan: Mid-horizon update

Sapling

By now, you have probably heard about Sapling, the second “software-updates-required” network upgrade for Zcash. Sapling introduces significant efficiency improvements […]

Sapling

What’s New in Sapling

The next major upgrade of Zcash, codenamed Sapling, is scheduled to activate in October 2018. The specific block height has […]

What’s New in Sapling

Zcash Company Proposed Roadmap

Subsequent to its founding in 2015, the Zcash Company built and then launched the Zcash protocol in October 2016. Since […]

Zcash Company Proposed Roadmap

Overwinter

Announcing Zcash Overwinter, the first “software-updates-required” network upgrade for Zcash. The purpose of Overwinter is to strengthen the protocol for […]

Overwinter

Zcash for Everyone

Since Zcash launched a little more than a year ago, our world-class engineering team has executed beautifully: on-boarding countless new […]

Zcash for Everyone