Opinion: It’s time to zero knowledge all the things!
Zcon2 Lite, a virtual edition of our annual conference, takes place this week (Tuesday 8th and Wednesday 9th June). One of the panel discussions will
June 7, 2021
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Zcon2 Lite, a virtual edition of our annual conference, takes place this week (Tuesday 8th and Wednesday 9th June). One of the panel discussions will
Over the last few weeks, the Signal private messaging app has experienced massive user growth, gaining tens of millions of new users, which resulted in a partial
So it would be really nice if we could do browser-based end-to-end encrypted video calling, like we do between devices like a desktop app or
Click here to register. Join the Zcon2 Lite Discord Server to ask speakers questions, and engage with other attendees. Subscribe to the Zcash Foundation’s YouTube channel to watch the
Protocols like Cosmos, Polkadot, and Ethereum 2.0 that aim to add interoperability across different blockchains are rapidly gaining steam. The Zcash Foundation knows there’s a
All too often, the law of the hammer holds true: if the only tool you have is a hammer, then everything looks like a nail. This law
Two weeks ago, we published a call-to-action urging the cryptography and privacy community to come together to work on the problem of privacy-preserving contact tracing. As noted
In our previous post, we talked about how the problem of building decentralized, privacy-preserving contact tracing systems is an opportunity to meaningfully apply cryptography to a
Over the last few months and especially the last few weeks, the spread of COVID-19 has created a massive health crisis at global scale. Healthcare
In one of our previous posts, we wrote an overview of the structure of the asynchronous network stack we designed for Zebra, the Zcash Foundation’s forthcoming node
In a previous post, we shared details on the new, fully asynchronous network stack we designed for Zebra, the Zcash Foundation’s forthcoming node implementation. In this post,
In the Foundation’s engineering roadmap for 2020, we overviewed our plans for Zebra, our Rust implementation of Zcash. Announced last summer at Zcon1, Zebra aims to support
Introduction The Zcash Foundation is happy to support independent Zcash meetup groups throughout the world. We want to make it easier for community members to
Privacy matters, as a value and a goal. It matters deeply — even existentially. People often say that privacy is a human right. But why? What
In July, the Foundation announced an FPGA acceleration research project. In September, FPGA engineer Ben Devlin wrapped up the engagement by presenting his work at the
The Zcash Foundation is happy to announce the first results of an FPGA acceleration project, undertaken by FPGA engineer Ben Devlin. Work began in January
The first ZKProof Standards Workshop was productive, with more than 70 participants from both academia and industry. “If we succeed, people will be able to prove things
Ian Miers is a postdoc at Cornell Tech and a member of the Zcash Foundation Board of Directors. He helped create Zcash and co-authored the Zerocoin and
The Zcash Foundation is now taking applications for Zcon1, our second annual conference! This coming June, several hundred people will unite in Croatia to discuss how technology
Ian Miers’ Zcon0 presentation on the importance of financial privacy, and how technology can be used to achieve it, is now available as a professionally edited video.
Day 1 8AM-9AM Breakfast 8AM-8:50AM Registration 9AM-9:10AM Opening Remarks Josh Cincinnati 9:10AM-9:30AM Keynote Zooko Wilcox 9:30AM-9:55AM From Zerocoin To Zcash Matthew Green 9:55AM-10:20AM A History of Zcash Nathan Wilcox 10:20AM-10:35AM Coffee Break 10:35AM-11AM Cultivating Sapling Sean Bowe 11AM-11:20AM Defining
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