Zcash: News

ECC is committed to supporting Zcash-Shielded Assets by aligning our engineering plans with the community in the best interest of […]

Digital payments — crypto and otherwise — need to be fast, affordable, confidential and inclusive. Many projects succeed in delivering […]

Zcon is an annual conference organised by the Zcash Foundation that focuses on privacy-preserving technologies.

In March, as part of our Crypto in Context initiative, Electric Coin Co. (ECC) kicked off an ambitious pilot program […]

zcashd can now be configured to optionally expose an HTTP server that acts as a Prometheus scrape endpoint. The server […]

Electric Coin Co. (ECC) today announced Halo Arc for Zcash, a product suite to launch the next generation of Zcash. […]

Electric Coin Co. (ECC) is proud to announce the formation of its Scientific Advisory Group (SAG). The purpose of the […]

Electric Coin Co. (ECC) is committed to openness and transparency — as we help evolve and support the Zcash digital […]

Electric Coin Co. is pleased to announce our newest board member, Christina Garman. Garman was one of the seven scientists […]

As part of the Network Upgrade Pipeline, Electric Coin Co. (ECC) is publishing our Zcash Improvement Proposals (ZIPs) for Network […]

Reduce download traffic. Reduce upload traffic. libzcashconsensus replaced by libzcash_script. Other P2P Changes. Build system updates.

ECC introduced Version 1.0 of the Network Upgrade Pipeline, commonly known in Zcash circles as the NUP, in December 2018. […]

The sun literally never sets on ECC Engineering! We’re a small, global organization focused on building and supporting technology to […]

We foresee a day when the world’s financial systems run on top of and interoperate with Zcash. Just as HTTPS […]

Switch to ed25519-zebra for consensus signature checks. Update default fees according to ZIP-313. Improve getblocktemplate rpc performance when using shielded […]

Electric Coin Co. (ECC) is committed to openness and transparency — as we help evolve and support the Zcash digital […]

Zcash is the first non-Ethereum-based asset supported on the platform. Following the example of Vitalik Buterin’s Gitcoin Grant retros, this […]

One of the most enjoyable things we do at ECC is working on cutting-edge cryptography. In our continued effort to […]

2020 has been one of the most memorable years in Zcash’s short history. In this blog, we cover the milestones, […]

This is a hotfix release that addresses a performance regression in v4.1.0. It is recommended that either v4.0.0 or this […]

Today, Unstoppable became the first multi-currency wallet to enable shielded Zcash addresses on iOS* and Android. By integrating ECC’s mobile […]

Migration to Clang and static libc++. Fast sync for initial block download. Convenient testing for invalid note plaintexts. Additional lightwalletd […]

A majority of Electric Coin Co. (ECC) shareholders have officially voted in favor of donating 100 percent of the shares […]

We are very pleased to announce that Zcash Gitcoin Grants are now available and that a pilot $25k round is […]

Billions of people in the world do not have access to a fair and open currency or supporting financial services. […]

Electric Coin Co. (ECC) is committed to openness and transparency — as we help evolve and support the Zcash digital […]

Gemini Trust Company (Gemini) announced today that account holders now have the ability to withdraw to shielded Zcash addresses. Gemini […]

The Zcash community elected five members out of nineteen candidates to the inaugural Major Grants Review Committee. The Zcash Foundation […]

The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) is an inter-governmental body that develops and promotes policies to prevent money laundering, terrorist […]

Electric Coin Co. once again engaged the cryptography group at NCC, this time to review our upcoming Canopy (NU4) network […]

Electric Coin Co. is spearheading a new type of open-source license, one that enables anyone to commercially support and improve […]

The 4.0.0 release supports the Canopy activation on mainnet, which will occur at a block height of 1046400 (mid-November), following […]

Electric Coin Co. (ECC) has opened the source code we are developing for Halo 2, an updated, more efficient version […]

Luxor Mining Pool has mined the first Zcash block to a shielded coinbase at height #949496. Shielded coinbase was enabled […]

Zcash might have the most diverse community of any crypto ecosystem. It includes world-class cryptographers and engineers, leaders from other […]

The code preparations for the Canopy network upgrade are finished and included in this release.

Many of us in the crypto industry know a lot about engineering and finance. We understand cryptography, how to custody […]

Gitcoin’s Protect Privacy Hackathon wrapped up last week, and the ECC team is so grateful to have been involved. The […]

This month, Chainalysis and Elliptic announced support for Zcash in their compliance products. This post will provide clarity about our […]

Electric Coin Co. (ECC) is committed to openness and transparency — as we help evolve and support the Zcash digital […]

ECC open-sourced our work-in-progress iOS and Android Zcash wallets last week, so it makes sense for the ECC security team […]

A recent Heartwood security assessment conducted by independent firm Trail of Bits, revealed no major issues in the implementation of […]

This release supports the Heartwood activation on mainnet, which will occur at a block height of 903000 (mid-July), following the […]

Electric Coin Co. is pleased to announce the Zcash Developer Alliance (ZDA), an invite-only working group to advance Zcash development […]

Electric Coin Co. has released zcashd 2.1.2-3, a hotfix that addresses issues identified in the Heartwood activation on testnet. This […]

Since 2016, Zcash has become one of the most widely adopted digital currencies, supported by high-quality financial institutions and crypto […]

This release supports the activation of Heartwood on testnet, with an activation height of 903800, slated to occur on May […]

ECC Wallet is a fully functional, Android- and iOS-native mobile wallet built for Sapling shielded Zcash transactions on mainnet. ECC […]

Earlier this year, ECC released resources for building shielded mobile wallets, which open-sourced a suite of libraries to support the […]

As part of the Heartwood network upgrade, Zcash miners and mining pools will have the option to mine directly to […]

Electric Coin Co. (ECC) is committed to openness and transparency — as we help evolve and support the Zcash digital […]

Heartwood, the next major Zcash network upgrade, improves interoperability through Flyclient support and gives miners the option to immediately shield […]

At Electric Coin Co., we believe everyone has a right to economic freedom and it is our duty to help […]

This post provides a mid-horizon update to that flight plan and provides insights into our Engineering activities for Q1 2020 […]

Scaling is a central discussion for blockchain teams and a critical issue that needs to be addressed as this technology […]

On December 31, 2019, Michael Davidson disclosed to us a vulnerability that could be used to cause consensus failure in […]

The results of the Zcash community polling are in, and Electric Coin Co. is happy to accept the role as […]

Two separate security assessments have been completed on ZIPs that specify changes in the upcoming Zcash network upgrade (now named […]

Last year, Electric Coin Co. released reference code for an experimental Android SDK wallet, the first working implementation of a […]

We know there are passionate advocates of Zcash all over the world, and we want to empower everyone in our […]

Zaki Manian, a prolific contributor in the blockchain space, has joined the Electric Coin Co. (ECC) technical advisory board. Manian […]

Electric Coin Co. (ECC) is committed to openness and transparency — as we help evolve and support the Zcash digital […]

Blossom, the next major upgrade of Zcash, is scheduled to activate on or around Dec. 11, 2019, at block height […]

During the latest Electric Coin Co. (ECC) quarterly livestream, we shared our R&D and engineering strategy to advance the future […]

Electric Coin Co. became aware of a security announcement on the bitcoin-dev mailing list this morning (8th November). Upon investigation, […]

The mainnet activation of the Blossom network upgrade is supported by this release, with an activation height of 653600.

The Electric Coin Co. (ECC) is passing the Zcash trademark to the Zcash Foundation, an independent nonprofit that focuses on […]

Of course, this was great news for those of us at the Electric Coin Co., the Zcash Foundation and the […]

On Tuesday September 24th we released version 2.0.7-3 of Zcashd to address two security issues. Both were discovered and reported […]

Sean Bowe, an engineer and cryptographer at Electric Coin Company (ECC), has discovered a technique for creating practical, scalable and […]

Summary of the Changes Testnet Blossom “Rewind” to prevent having to manually reindex when reconnecting to the correct chain. Insight Explorer […]

Electric Coin Company (ECC) is committed to openness and transparency — as we help evolve and support the Zcash digital […]

The Zcash community is making a decision about whether to create a new development fund and use it to hire […]

Summary of the Changes Included in this Release Shorter block times. Blossom activation on testnet. Insight explorer changes.

TL;DR The Zcash Community is collectively deciding what to do after the current development fund sunsets in 2020 along with […]

Funding for the Electric Coin Company’s work on Zcash R&D, engineering, global adoption, audits, trademark protections and regulatory relations will […]

Spending your Zcash has never been easier now that Flexa just announced support for Zcash on the SPEDN wallet. Flexa […]

Electric Coin Company (ECC), formerly known as the Zcash Company, invented and has been supporting the Zcash cryptocurrency since its […]

Three separate audit reports of Electric Coin Company software have been completed. The first two target the Zcash Improvement Proposals […]

This release of zcashd v2.0.6 is a maintenance release, focusing on code clean-ups and minor bug fixes. It precedes v2.0.7 […]

Effective governance depends on sound incentives and sound judgment — both individual and collective. Many cryptocurrency projects have started to […]

Today we are excited to announce the rollout of our new domain and a fresh company brand. We unveil these […]

The Zcash Foundation is delighted to announce Zepio Wallet, a shielded-first, cross-platform Zcash wallet that includes a full zcashd node. Sync and spend […]

The Electric Coin Company is pleased to announce the official Sprout-to-Sapling migration tool in the 2.0.5-2 release of zcashd. This […]

The Electric Coin Company allocated 15,518 Zcash for this education, which was worth about $2M at the time of our […]

The light client reference wallet has been built! Sapling shielded transactions now work on mobile devices and we are ready […]

Last November, the Zcash Foundation announced our ongoing financial support of zec-qt-wallet, an open-source application created by Aditya Kulkarni. The wallet is […]

Since the successful Sapling network upgrade, we have already seen an increased adoption of shielded addresses in the Zcash ecosystem. […]