The Zcash Foundation is a 501(c)(3) public charity that builds financial privacy infrastructure for the public good, primarily serving users of the Zcash protocol and blockchain.
Privacy is a fundamental human right. Its essence is the individual’s ability to choose what information is shared with others. Privacy comprises both autonomy and consent; it is essential to human dignity, and the healthy continuation of a diverse and civil society.
Personal financial data can reveal a huge amount of information about a person, and so protecting financial privacy is an essential component of protecting the right to privacy.
Our mission at the Zcash Foundation is to help sustain and improve open financial networks that allow anyone and everyone to protect their own privacy, on their own terms. While our primary focus is the Zcash protocol and blockchain, we also support broader applications of zero knowledge proofs, as well as other approaches to financial privacy.
1. Science
2. Community
3. Protocol and Governance
Currently, the Zcash Foundation allocates the bulk of its funds to two main projects:
Zebra is the Foundation’s independent, consensus-compatible implementation of a Zcash node, currently under development. Zebra can be used to join the Zcash peer-to-peer network, which helps keep Zcash working by validating and broadcasting transactions, and maintaining the Zcash blockchain state in a distributed manner.
FROST is a Flexible Round-Optimized Schnorr Threshold signature scheme designed to reduce the interaction between participants who jointly own a private signing key and wish to use this private key to sign a message. Recognized by industry leaders including Coinbase, FROST is a proposed IETF standard, on the path towards adoption and standardization.
The Zcash ecosystem offers two funding gateways that support the development of the Zcash protocol as well as general financial privacy:
1. Zcash Community Grants
2. Zcash Foundation Grants
Passionate about all things cryptography and financial privacy? We’d love for you to join us! We are a diverse, fully remote organization, with team members based in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, the Dominican Republic, Spain, United Kingdom, United States, and Uruguay.
We’re heading to Vegas! Zcon3 will be held in-person, at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas, from August 7-9. Zcon3 will also have a virtual component. This is so that community members who are unable to attend in-person can still be an active part of the event. (Registration for virtual attendees will open in July).
Need to reach us? Send us an enquiry and a member of our team will get back to you shortly.
