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 […]
Zebra 4.0.0 Release: Enhanced Observability and Developer Experience
The Zcash Foundation is pleased to announce the release of Zebra 4.0.0. This release focuses on improving observability, streamlining operations, and enhancing developer experience. What’s New in Zebra 4.0.0 ⤷ Better Observability and Tracing We’ve significantly improved the local development experience with new observability infrastructure: Additionally, Zebra now includes comprehensive distributed tracing support through OpenTelemetry […]
Zcash Foundation: 2025 Year in Review
As we look back on 2025, Zcash Foundation (ZF) celebrates a year of progress, collaboration, and strategic growth that strengthened the Zcash ecosystem and advanced financial privacy for the public good. Across technical development, governance, and community initiatives, our shared work this year reflected the Foundation’s enduring belief that privacy is essential infrastructure for human […]
Strengthening the Zcash Network: Announcing a Native Rust DNS Seeder
At Zcash Foundation, our mission is to build and support infrastructure that ensures Zcash remains a secure, private, and decentralized financial system. As always, our focus remains unwavering: we are here to ship code that keeps Zcash running. Today, we are proud to announce a significant addition to the Zcash ecosystem: a native Rust implementation […]
Notice Concluding SEC Investigation
On August 31, 2023, Zcash Foundation received a subpoena from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in connection with an inquiry designated “In the Matter of Certain Crypto Asset Offerings (SF-04569)”. We are pleased to announce that the SEC has concluded its review and informed us that it does not intend to recommend any […]
Expanding Zcash Network Infrastructure: New DNS Seeders Launched in the United States and Europe
When you open a Zcash wallet or start a Zcash node for the first time, it needs to locate and connect to other computers on the network. This is where DNS seeders come in. They are like a phonebook for the Zcash network; they help new nodes find their first connections so they can start […]