Zebra 4.3.0: Critical Security Fixes, ZIP-235 Support, and Performance Improvements
We are releasing Zebra 4.3.0 today. This release contains critical security fixes and all node operators are strongly encouraged to upgrade immediately. In addition to the security patches, this release introduces support for the Network Sustainability Mechanism (ZIP-235), improves developer tooling for performance profiling, and resolves several other bugs. Security Advisories CVE-2026-34202: Remote Denial of […]
Zebra 4.2.0 Release
Zcash Foundation is pleased to announce Zebra 4.2.0. This release expands RPC functionality, strengthens mempool policy compliance, and adds deeper state querying capabilities. This release also completes the migration to OpenRPC for API documentation and moves the Python QA test framework to the standalone integration-tests repository. What’s New in 4.2.0 RPC: A More Complete Interface […]
Announcing the Zcomm 2026 Program and Registration!
We’re thrilled to announce the program and speaker lineup for Zcomm 2026, taking place virtually on Tuesday, March 24th, 2026. This year’s event brings together an inspiring group of community builders, organizers, educators, and creators who will share practical skills to help you activate and empower your own communities. Zcomm focuses on the “how”— how […]
Zcash Foundation Q4 2025 Report
The Zcash Foundation is committed to transparency and openness with the Zcash community and our other stakeholders. Today, we are releasing our Q4 2025 report, which provides an overview of the work undertaken by our engineering team, as well as an overview of other activities during this period. As with our previous quarterly reports, this […]
NU7 Polling Results: What We Heard and Where We Go From Here
Thank you to everyone who participated in the NU7 sentiment polling — ZCAP members, coinholders, the Engineering Caucus, ZecHub, Zcash Brasil, Zcash Español, and Zcash Türkiye. The breadth of participation reflects how seriously this community takes protocol governance, and we don’t take that for granted. We want to be direct: the results reveal both meaningful […]
NU7 Sentiment: ZCAP Polling Results
The Zcash Foundation recently concluded the ZCAP NU7 Sentiment Polling, which closed on Friday, February 20 at 20:00 UTC. This poll was designed to gauge community sentiment on 11 proposed protocol features and initiatives, each either completed or expected to be ready within the next year. This post summarizes the results from the ZCAP poll. […]
Embracing AI, Protecting Privacy: How Zebra Approaches AI-Assisted Contributions
AI coding tools are changing how open source software gets built. At Zcash Foundation, we’ve seen this firsthand: AI-assisted contributions have helped us ship features faster, enabled contributors who are new to Rust or to the Zcash protocol to make meaningful contributions, and accelerated our development velocity across four major releases—in the last three months […]
Zebra 4.1.0 Release
The Zcash Foundation is pleased to announce Zebra 4.1.0, a release focused on expanding observability with comprehensive Prometheus metrics and Grafana dashboards, while strengthening mempool compliance with zcashd. This release contains no breaking changes for node operators. What’s New in 4.1.0 Observability: See Inside Your Node Zebra 4.1.0 significantly expands monitoring capabilities to give operators […]
FROST Release v3.0.0-rc.0
We have just released FROST v3.0.0-rc.0. The main changes in this release have been changing the cheater detection feature to allow specifying as a function parameter instead of a compile-time feature, a big refactor of the repair share and refresh share functionality, improving our test coverage for serialisation and async, and some significant improvements to […]
Zcash Foundation 2026: Stewardship and Innovation
As we begin 2026, the Zcash Foundation (ZF) stands at a pivotal moment in its mission to steward privacy-preserving financial infrastructure for the public good. This year our priorities reflect both maturity and ambition. Across engineering, community engagement, and humanitarian initiatives, we are strengthening the tools that make privacy possible, deepening our collaborative partnerships, and […]