Sprout-to-Sapling Migration Tool
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
Turnstile Enforcement Against Counterfeiting
The Electric Coin Company has developed consensus code that preserves the Zcash monetary base in the event of a counterfeiting
Reducing Shielded Proving Time in Sapling
Since the successful Sapling network upgrade, we have already seen an increased adoption of shielded addresses in the Zcash ecosystem.
Sapling in HD
Broader ecosystem adoption of shielded addresses through the implementation of faster zk-SNARKs has been a highlight of the Sapling network upgrade. However, there are
Sapling Transaction Anatomy
With the Sapling activation approaching, we’re continuing our education on what users and third-party services can expect. We recently announced
Sapling Addresses & Turnstile Migration
The Sapling network upgrade is a major feature enhancement to the Zcash network targeted to activate on October 28th, 2018.
Perspectives on Sapling
Last week we introduced a video series called Perspectives. These short interviews were conducted at Zcon0 on various topics relevant
Selective Disclosure & Shielded Viewing Keys
Encryption is an important tool to control access to personal and business data. In many cases where private data must
Explaining SNARKs Part VII: Pairings of Elliptic Curves
<< Part VI In Part VI, we saw an outline of the Pinocchio zk-SNARK. We were missing two things –
Explaining SNARKs Part VI: The Pinocchio Protocol
<< Part V In part V we saw how a statement Alice would like to prove to Bob can be
Explaining SNARKs Part V: From Computations to Polynomials
<< Part IV In the three previous parts, we developed a certain machinery for dealing with polynomials. In this part,
Payment Contexts & Reusing Shielded Addresses
The privacy provided in Zcash allows users to disclose a shielded payment address publicly or to multiple individuals without the
