Zcash Foundation May 2023 Newsletter
Learn more about this month’s news in our May newsletter, which features Zcon4, Free2z, ZF AV Club and ZCG funded grants.
May 31, 2023
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Learn more about this month’s news in our May newsletter, which features Zcon4, Free2z, ZF AV Club and ZCG funded grants.
The Zcash Foundation is committed to transparency and openness with the Zcash community and our other stakeholders. Today, we are releasing our Q1 2023 report,
The Zcash Community Grants (ZCG) program funds independent teams to perform major ongoing development (or other work) that benefits the Zcash ecosystem. Grants are chosen
Learn more about this month’s exciting news in our April newsletter, which features Zcon4, Zcon Vozes, ZF Minor Grants awards and ZCG open RFPs.
Teor introduces a recently-added experimental feature: progress bars that show Zebra’s status.
Arya Solhi describes how the rkyv framework can be used instead of JSON-RPC to take advantage of Zebra’s fast performance.
We’re pleased to announce the first cohort of Zcash Minor Grants recipients, selected by the Zcash community. With 102 votes cast, the approval threshold was
On Saturday 18th March, the Zcash Foundation (ZF) co-hosted its first-ever Zcon Voices event. Zcon Voices: Brazil was held at the Museu do Amanhã in
In February, we announced a new, experimental Zcash Foundation (ZF) grants program, nicknamed “Minor Grants”, for smaller grants of up to $25,000. We’re pleased to
Marek Bielik introduces the new Zebra package for Arch Linux.
Alfredo Garcia describes a new Zebra feature to store Zcash block data in an elasticsearch database, which allows us to use Kibana to explore and visualize the data.
Alex Bornstein, ZF’s chief operating officer, shares some insight into the work ZF does to protect the Zcash trademarks.
Today, Halborn disclosed vulnerabilities in some code forks of Bitcoin Core, which could be exploited to crash nodes. An attacker could potentially take advantage of
The Zcash Foundation is committed to transparency and openness with the Zcash community and our other stakeholders. Today, we are releasing our Q4 2022 report,
The Zcash Foundation has been looking into Oblivious Message Retrieval (OMR) to determine whether it offers a potential solution to the recent performance problems that have affected Zcash wallet users, and whether there are any advantages to be gained from implementing this in a Zcash context.
Today, we are announcing a new, experimental Zcash Foundation (ZF) grants program, which we have nicknamed “Minor Grants”. This is intended to complement the Major
We are pleased to announce that Natalie E. has joined the Zcash Foundation as a Core Engineer. Natalie has previously worked on the OTRv4 cryptographic
In this post, we briefly describe the threshold signature scheme FROST, and present benchmark results for our FROST implementation. We also describe one optimization that greatly improves its speed, especially for scenarios with a large number of signers.
The Zcash Foundation is proud to support this ambitious grassroots project that aims to have global impact through local and regional actions. We can’t wait
The ZCAP poll to elect four members of the Zcash Community Grants committee closed early this morning, and the results are in. Jason McGee, Wobbzz,
Members of the Zcash Community Grants (ZCG) committee are elected by the Zcash Community Advisory Panel, and serve a one year term. Four committee members’
We are pleased to announce that J.W. Verret and Marta Belcher have joined the board of the Zcash Foundation. J.W. and Marta bring a wealth
Started at 3:03 pm ET. Directors present: Andrew Miller, Peter Van Valkenburgh, Jack Gavigan, Amber Baldet, J.W. Verret, Marta Belcher, Ian Miers (left meeting at 3:15) Foundation
Started at 5:05 pm ET. Directors present: Andrew Miller, Peter Van Valkenburgh, Matthew Green, Jack Gavigan, Amber Baldet (joined at 5:15 pm ET) Guests present: J.W.
The Zcash Community Grants (ZCG) program funds independent teams to perform major ongoing development (or other work) that benefits the Zcash ecosystem. Grants are chosen
Today we began polling the Zcash Community Advisory Panel to obtain their advisory input regarding who should be appointed to the Zcash Foundation (ZF) board.
The Zcash Foundation is committed to transparency and openness with the Zcash community and our other stakeholders. Today, we are releasing our Q3 2022 report,
The Zcash Foundation is pleased to announce that we have recently tagged our first release candidate of Zebra (zebra 1.0.0-rc.0), the alternative Zcash node implementation
The Zcash Foundation is happy to welcome Deidra M., our inaugural Operations and Events Coordinator. Deidra will support the Foundation’s day-to-day operations activities, as well
Started at 1:04 pm ET. Directors present: Andrew Miller, Amber Baldet, Peter Van Valkenburgh, Jack Gavigan, Ian Miers Foundation employees also present: Alex Bornstein (Secretary)
Fungai joined the Foundation at the beginning of this year, as our interim Engineering Project Manager, while our Engineering Manager was away on sabbatical. He
The Zcash Foundation SHOULD endeavor to use the Community Advisory Panel (or successor mechanism) as advisory input for future board elections. — ZIP 1014 The
Started at 1:04 pm ET. Directors present: Andrew Miller, Amber Baldet, Peter Van Valkenburgh, Jack Gavigan, Ian Miers Foundation employees also present: Alex Bornstein (Secretary)
The Zcash Foundation is committed to transparency and openness with the Zcash community and our other stakeholders. Today, we are releasing our Q2 2022 report,
Apply here for the Community Support Coordinator role. We look forward to receiving your application. Part of our mission at the Zcash Foundation is to
Winfred joined the Foundation nearly a year ago as the organization’s first Head of Communications, and in that time she elevated the Foundation’s external communications
The Zcash Foundation is happy to welcome Arya Solhi, our newest Core Rust Engineer. Arya has over three years of development experience with a variety
Started at 4:04 pm ET. Directors present: Andrew Miller, Ian Miers, Amber Baldet, Peter Van Valkenburgh, Jack Gavigan Foundation employees also present: Alex Bornstein (Secretary)
A few weeks ago, Hudson Jameson announced his decision to step down from the Zcash Community Grants Committee (ZCG). In light of Hudson’s departure, and
We previously announced a plan to expand the Zcash Community Advisory Panel (ZCAP) ahead of the upcoming Zcash Community Grants (ZCG) committee election. Following this
The Zcash Foundation is committed to being transparent with the Zcash community and our other stakeholders. Today, we are releasing our Q1 2022 Report .
The largest slice of the Zcash Dev Fund is earmarked for major grants “to fund independent teams entering the Zcash ecosystem, to perform major ongoing
It is with sadness that we announce that Hudson Jameson has decided to step down as a member of the Zcash Community Grants (ZCG) committee.
Started at 1:02 pm ET. Directors present: Andrew Miller, Ian Miers, Amber Baldet, Peter Van Valkenburgh, Matthew Green, Jack Gavigan Foundation employees also present: Alex
Janito joined the Foundation last June, and, over the past eleven months, he has proven himself to be a valuable member of the Foundation team.
Zcon3 is headed to Vegas! The Zcash Foundation is excited to announce that Zcon3 will be held in-person, at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas,
Started at 1:10 pm ET. Directors present: Andrew Miller, Amber Baldet, Matthew Green, Jack Gavigan, Peter Van Valkenburgh Foundation employees also present: Alex Bornstein (Secretary)
The Zcash Foundation is committed to being transparent with the Zcash community and our other stakeholders. Today, we are releasing our Q4 2021 Report .
Started at 3:06 pm ET. Directors present: Andrew Miller, Ian Miers, Amber Baldet, Matthew Green, Jack Gavigan. Foundation employees also present: Alex Bornstein (Secretary) Ian
The Zcash Foundation is pleased to welcome Fungai Matambanadzo as its Engineering Project Manager, while our current Engineering Manager is away on sabbatical. Fungai has
The election of a new Major Grants Review Committee means that the sun sets on the inaugural Committee’s tenure. Chris Burniske, Holmes Wilson, Hudson Jameson, Sarah Jamie Lewis,
On December 20th, the Zcash Foundation polled the Zcash Community Advisory Panel (ZCAP) to determine which candidates should be elected to the next Major Grants Review Committee,
After the success of Zcon2 Lite, our first fully-virtual conference, we are happy to announce that Zcon3 will be held in late June 2022 and
The Zcash Foundation is happy to welcome Gustavo Valverde, who will be taking on a newly-created role at ZF as a DevOps Engineer. Gustavo has
Today, the Zcash Foundation (ZF) will begin polling the Zcash Community Advisory Panel (ZCAP) on two questions: which candidates should be elected to the next ZOMG Committee,
Last week, we announced the revised schedule for ZOMG elections. The ZOMG Committee is elected by the Zcash Community Advisory Panel (ZCAP), a panel of community
In late September, we paused the ZOMG election process to address questions that had arisen regarding potential conflict of interest issues. These questions arose when
This position is now filled. About us The Zcash Foundation is a 501(c)(3), nonprofit, public charity that builds and supports privacy infrastructure for the public
Started at 3:04pm ET. Directors present: Amber Baldet, Jack Gavigan, Ian Miers, Andrew Miller, Peter Van Valkenburgh. Foundation employees also present: Alex Bornstein (Secretary) Apologies:
The Zcash Foundation is committed to being transparent with the Zcash community and our other stakeholders. Today, we are releasing our quarterly report for the
The Zcash Foundation (ZF) is hiring a Software Engineering Project Manager (9 month contract – Jan-Sept 2022) to support the Engineering team while our existing
At the Zcash Foundation, we believe that transparency in our reporting breeds trust amongst our community members and stakeholders who interact with us at all
The Zcash Foundation is happy to welcome Dan Wolande, who will be taking on yet another newly created role at ZF as its Ecosystem Relations
During recent discussions with potential candidates for the Zcash Open Major Grants Committee (ZOMG), the question of conflicts of interest arose, as some candidates have
Throughout the last year, ZF has experienced significant changes to the team: from new leadership to team reorganization and expansion. This transition period presented both
We’re planning to revamp the Zcash Foundation website, to better support our goal of improving the way to communicate with the Zcash community and the
Since November last year, the Foundation has provided support to ZOMG (the Zcash Open Major Grants Committee; formerly known as the Major Grants Review Committee) in the
The Zcash Foundation Welcomes a New Head of Communications The Zcash Foundation is pleased to welcome Winfred K. Mandela – who will be taking on
Started at 4:06pm ET. Directors present: Andrew Miller (left at 5pm), Matthew Green, Ian Miers, Amber Baldet, Jack Gavigan. Foundation employees also present: Alex Bornstein
The largest slice of the Zcash Dev Fund (40%) is earmarked for major grants “to fund independent teams entering the Zcash ecosystem, to perform major
Later this month, we plan to poll the Zcash Community Advisory Panel (ZCAP) on two issues: Zcash Foundation board member appointment, and Zcash’s post-NU5 roadmap. Zcash Foundation
This position has now been filled. The Role The Communications & Ecosystems Relations Manager will play a key role in leading the Foundation’s outward-facing communications,
Started at 4:05pm ET. Directors present: Andrew Miller, Matthew Green, Peter Van Valkenburgh, Ian Miers, Amber Baldet (joined at 4:50pm ET), Jack Gavigan. Foundation employees
Started at 4pm EST. Directors present: Andrew Miller, Matthew Green, Peter Van Valkenburgh, Ian Miers, Amber Baldet, Jack Gavigan. Foundation employees also present: Alex Bornstein.
The Zcash Foundation SHOULD endeavor to use the Community Advisory Panel (or successor mechanism) as advisory input for future board elections. ZIP 1014 Several Zcash
The Zcash Foundation is very excited to welcome Alex Bornstein as our Chief Operating Officer. Alex has enjoyed a colorful 25 year career in the
The Zcash Foundation is very excited to welcome Alfredo Garcia as a Core Engineer. Alfredo is a self-taught developer who has worked in the blockchain
Zcon is an annual conference organised by the Zcash Foundation that focuses on privacy-preserving technologies. The first two Zcon events (Zcon0 in Montreal, and Zcon1 in Croatia) were
The Zcash Foundation is thrilled to welcome Conrado Gouvêa as a Cryptography Engineer. Conrado is a cryptography engineer who carried out research into the efficient
The second half of 2020 was a busy time for the Foundation. As a result, this post is long overdue, and includes both the Q3
The Zcash Foundation is pleased to announce our completion of an audit for our FROST implementation. This implementation is a first step and does not yet
Started at 4:30pm EST. Directors present: Andrew Miller, Matthew Green, Peter Van Valkenburgh, Ian Miers, Amber Baldet. Foundation employees also present: Jack Gavigan. Topics discussed:
The Zcash Foundation is delighted to welcome Marek as a Cryptography Engineer. Marek is an advocate of information privacy, FOSS and open-source hardware. He is
Jane joined the Foundation last June, and, over the past nine months, she has applied her deep Rust expertise to the Zebra project, helping lay
After three and a half years with the Zcash Foundation, Antonie Hodge is leaving her position as Director and moving on to do more of
Started at 4:35 P.M ET. Directors present: Andrew Miller, Matthew Green, Peter Van Valkenburgh, Ian Miers, Amber Baldet. Foundation employees also present: Antonie Hodge, Jack
The Zcash Foundation is very excited to welcome Jack Gavigan as its new Executive Director. With over ten years of experience in finance, and four
The Zcash Foundation is elated that Janito Vaqueiro Ferreira Filho is joining us as a Core Engineer. Janito has been a professional software developer for
This weekend, Sarah Jamie Lewis announced her resignation from the ZOMG committee (formerly known as the MGRC). Sarah is a talented individual who has played an active
On January 14, the Zcash Foundation hosted a community call to discuss Halo and the needs of users. Here is the video recording of the call,
Please join us January 14 at 22:30 UTC to discuss Halo. You can sign up here to participate. The Zcash Foundation is focused on growing user adoption in 2021.
After two years as the Zcash Foundation’s Principal Cryptographic Researcher, Henry de Valence is stepping down. Henry was the Zcash Foundation’s first technical hire and left a deep imprint
Last month, we published “What is preventing Zcash Adoption?” Now that we understand the challenges and barriers to adoption that our users face, here’s how
Here is a description of the operational support that ZF will provide to the MGRC in accordance to ZIP 1014 and the Foundation’s obligations. Target Metrics and Key
This post aims to set out some initial ideas and guiding thoughts for KPIs that both the MGRC and ZF could broadly use. ZIP 1014 requires us
The Zcash Foundation is very excited to welcome Pili Guerra as our Engineering Project Manager. Pili has 15 years of experience working in the tech
We are pleased to say that FROST has been accepted into the Selected Areas in Cryptography (SAC) 2020 Conference, which took place last week. We thank
Started at 4:00 P.M ET. Directors present: Andrew Miller, Matthew Green, Peter Van Valkenburgh, Ian Miers. Foundation employees also present: Antonie Hodge, Chelsea Komlo, Danika
It is on a bittersweet note that we announce that George Tankersley is leaving the Foundation. George has been a part of the Zcash community for nearly
We are delighted to announce Danika Delano has joined our team as the Foundation’s operations manager. Danika is eager to bring her commitment to operational
On September 4 we had a community call. The purpose was to ask the Candidates for the Major Grant Review Committee questions. The call was
Network privacy is a critical component to protecting users’ privacy online, even when encryption protocols protect against eavesdropping adversaries from learning the content of network
We are getting close to completing the election process for the Major Grants Review Committee! In this post you will find the final list of
The Zcash Foundation has several responsibilities with respect to ZIP1014, the Zcash Improvement Proposal from last year that specified a developer fund (Dev Fund). In this
On August 18, the Zcash Foundation hosted a community call to discuss and answer questions on the voting process, structure of the MGRC, relationship to
The Zcash Foundation is opening up the Community Advisory Panel to more voting members prior to the MGRC vote. Doing so will more accurately represent
After an incredible three year tenure as Zcash Foundation’s inaugural Executive Director, Josh Cincinnati is resigning from his position effective today. The Board is sorry
Started at 11:35 A.M. ET. Directors present: Andrew Miller, Amber Baldet, Matthew Green, Peter Van Valkenburgh, Ian Miers. Foundation employees also present: Josh Cincinnati, Antonie
We are pleased to announce an updated version of FROST, a Flexible Round-Optimized Schnorr Threshold signature scheme. FROST is designed to reduce the interaction between participants
In the most recent “State of the Zcash Foundation,” we established goals for 2020. You can find our progress on Q1 here. Here’s an update on our progress
The Zcash Foundation has launched its own DNS seeders for the Zcash network, as promised in our roadmap. This removes one of the network’s last sole
I’m thrilled to announce that the Zcash Foundation just hired two talented Rust Systems Engineers to help us meet the goals of our ambitious 2020 tech
Started at 1:05pm ET. Directors present: Andrew Miller, Amber Baldet, Matthew Green, Peter Van Valkenburgh, Ian Miers. Foundation employees also present: Josh Cincinnati, Antonie Hodge.
Recently, the Zcash Foundation announced a grant to The Tor Project to fund the specification of the Walking Onions protocol. In this post, we’ll talk about why Walking
As we often remind you, the Zcash Foundation’s mission is to build and support privacy infrastructure for the public good. What does that mean in practice? Can
In the most recent “State of the Zcash Foundation,” we established goals for 2020. Like most organizations, ZF has had to adjust in response to COVID-19 —
Edit: by request of the ECC we’ve delayed the timeline for MGRC selection by two months With the acceptance of ZIP 1014, the Zcash community established a path
Today the Zcash Foundation joins the TCN Coalition, a newly formed global group of collaborators who are working to design, implement, and deploy contract tracing without
Started at 3:08pm ET. Directors present: Andrew Miller, Matthew Green, Peter Van Valkenburgh, Ian Miers. Foundation employees also present: Josh Cincinnati, Antonie Hodge. Topics discussed:
It’s that time of the year — time for an updated State of the Zcash Foundation. You can read last year’s here. Like last year’s post,
The combined Community Advisory Panel and forum user poll on ZIP 1014 is complete. Of 119 eligible participants, 88 voted, representing similar levels of turnout to the
Started at 3:20pm ET. Directors present: Andrew Miller, Matthew Green, Peter Van Valkenburgh, Ian Miers, Amber Baldet. Foundation employees also present: Josh Cincinnati, Antonie Hodge.
After feedback from the community and ECC — and an unanticipated but greatly appreciated pause on the process over the holidays — we are ready
We last updated you on Zcash Foundation grants in June. At the time, we had just debuted ZF Grants, the community funding platform that Grant.io built for us. It’s
As promised in the Foundation’s last post, I’d like to present the Foundation’s proposed updates to ZIP 1012. Thanks to community feedback on our proposed changes to
The community has clearly stated its preference for a dev fund, and one which not only responsibly funds the ECC and ZF but also grants
Started at 3:05pm ET. Directors present: Andrew Miller, Matthew Green, Peter Van Valkenburgh, Ian Miers, Amber Baldet. Foundation employees also present: Josh Cincinnati, Antonie Hodge.
We have a happy announcement to share! The Zcash Foundation donated 1,044.41369 ZEC (equivalent to $40,000 USD at the time of donation) to Canadian nonprofit Open
If you’ve been following the Zcash dev fund debate, you know that the Foundation recently polled our Community Advisory Panel, Zcash Community Forum members with accounts predating March, 2019,
The Foundation is pleased to release our Form 990 for 2018. In case you aren’t familiar, Form 990 is a transparency report that United States nonprofits are required
Today, the Foundation begins community sentiment collection regarding the 13 active Zcash Improvement Proposals that address development funding. This blog post contains a finalized poll of those
At the beginning of this year, executive director Josh Cincinnati set goals for the Zcash Foundation, “with a renewed energy toward redistributing centers of unilateral power
As promised, the Foundation is restarting community sentiment collection regarding the future of Zcash development funding. The sentiment collection approach remains the same as we described
The Zcash Foundation and Electric Coin Company have signed an agreement regarding the Zcash trademark. In short, ECC has donated the mark to the Foundation.
Started at 3:00pm ET. Directors present: Andrew Miller, Matthew Green, Peter Van Valkenburgh, Ian Miers. Foundation employees also present: Josh Cincinnati, Antonie Hodge, George Tankersley.
Started at 8:35pm ET. Directors present: Andrew Miller, Matthew Green, Peter Van Valkenburgh. Foundation employees also present: Josh Cincinnati, Antonie Hodge. Topics discussed: Trademark discussion
Lena Wang is the Zcash Foundation’s new operations associate! She will work with operations director Antonie Hodge to keep the Foundation running smoothly. Lena attended
Last week on the Zcash Community Forum, the Electric Coin Company announced to both the community and the Foundation that months of trademark negotiation with ZF
Started at 1:05pm ET. Directors present: Andrew Miller, Amber Baldet, Ian Miers, Matthew Green, Peter Van Valkenburgh. Foundation employees also present: Josh Cincinnati, Antonie Hodge.
Chelsea Komlo has joined the Zcash Foundation as a core engineer and researcher. Chelsea has worked as a software engineer on cryptography protocols and large-scale distributed
Responding by email: Andrew, Peter, Ian, Matt. Topics discussed: Future funding: The members of the Board responding via email voted 4-0 to approve the draft
Zcash community and broader cryptocurrency ecosystem, we write to you after numerous hours of debate about Zcash dev funds, the upgrade process, and cryptocurrency governance
Started at 10:45am ET. Directors present: Andrew Miller, Amber Baldet, Ian Miers, Matthew Green, Peter Van Valkenburgh. Foundation employees also present: Josh Cincinnati, Antonie Hodge.
Defcon 27 is a week away, and the Zcash Foundation will be there! (Hopefully the locusts will clear up.) We’re hosting an informal happy hour on Thursday, joined
George Tankersley has joined the Zcash Foundation as our director of engineering! George is a software engineer and cryptographer with years of experience working on large-scale
Started at 3pm ET. Directors present: Andrew Miller, Amber Baldet, Ian Miers, Matthew Green, Peter Van Valkenburgh. Foundation employees also present: Josh Cincinnati, Antonie Hodge.
Zcon1, the second annual privacy and technology conference hosted by the Zcash Foundation, was held in Split, Croatia on June 22 – 24, 2019. It
Joint statement from the Zcash Foundation and the organizers of the Monero Konferenco. On June 23, the Monero Konferenco and Zcon1 will share a transatlantic panel on the regulatory
In November, 2018, the Zcash Foundation announced that XMR Systems, known for its iOS app X Wallet, would be developing an iOS reference wallet for Zcash (tentatively titled
The Zcash Foundation and Parity Technologies are proud to present Zebra, a consensus-compatible Zcash node client written in Rust, released under the GPL 3.0 license. The Electric
Since our mainnet grants platform was released two weeks ago, community members have submitted seven intriguing proposals and numerous feature requests. The Foundation is excited to see the burgeoning interest
Executive Director Josh Cincinnati spoke about the “multisig model” of Zcash governance at Devcon4 in November, 2018, and the MIT Bitcoin Expo in March, 2019. The following blog post
ZF Grants now supports the Zcash mainnet! The Grant.io team made the switch last Friday, and today it’s official. You can transact with real $ZEC on the platform.
The Zcash Foundation is delighted to announce Zepio Wallet, a shielded-first, cross-platform Zcash wallet that includes a full zcashd node. Sync and spend to your heart’s content! (Or
Started at 4pm ET. Directors present: Andrew Miller, Amber Baldet, Ian Miers, Matthew Green, Peter Van Valkenburgh. Foundation employees also present: Josh Cincinnati, Antonie Hodge.
We are delighted to announce that Deirdre Connolly has joined the Zcash Foundation as a Core Engineer. Deirdre has a BS from MIT and over 10 years
Started at 11am ET in New York City. Directors present: Andrew Miller (via telephone), Amber Baldet (via telephone), Ian Miers, Matthew Green, Peter Van Valkenburgh.
Started at 4pm ET. Directors present: Andrew Miller, Amber Baldet, Ian Miers, Matthew Green, Peter Van Valkenburgh. Employees also present: Josh Cincinnati, Antonie Hodge. Topics
Last November, the Zcash Foundation announced our ongoing financial support of zec-qt-wallet, an open-source application created by Aditya Kulkarni. The wallet is a shielded-first, cross-platform GUI that
The Zcash Foundation’s new platform for grants and community funding, ZF Grants, is in open beta on the Zcash testnet! The full launch will come in
The Zcash Foundation contributed funding to a new research initiative by the Human Rights Foundation, undertaken by Technology Privacy Fellow Eric Wall. The project examines the practical
Anna Kaplan joined the Zcash Foundation as a technical intern on Monday! She will spend the next few months with us, focusing on Parity’s Zcash node
The Foundation has suggested changes to the Zcash Improvement Proposal process, which will be critical for protocol development going forward. We want to explain our intent to
KZen Networks is undertaking a research project funded by the Zcash Foundation. “The goal of this endeavor,” KZen wrote on the firm’s blog, “is to provide a
We are delighted to announce that Henry de Valence has joined the Zcash Foundation as our Principal Cryptographic Researcher. Henry brings significant technical expertise and experience to
We strongly recommend you read the disclosure in full from the Zcash Company before reading this response. Yesterday the Foundation became aware of an inflation/counterfeiting bug that
Last year after becoming the Zcash Foundation’s Executive Director, I prescribed a roadmap for 2018 and suggested how we could evaluate our efforts. In this post I’ll
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
The Zcash Foundation has a new website! Our URL has changed from z.cash.foundation to zfnd.org — shorter, simpler, and easier to remember. At the same time, the website has
Responding by email: Andrew, Peter, Ian, Amber, Matt (updated January 28th, 2019) Topics discussed: Board Resolution The members of the Board responding via email voted
The Zcash Community Advisory Panel (ZCAP) is a panel of community members who are eligible to take part in advisory polls conducted by the Zcash
Started 2pm ET. Board members in attendance: Andrew Miller, Peter Van Valkenburgh, Ian Miers, Matt Green Foundation employees also present: Josh Cincinnati, Antonie Hodge Topics
The Zcash Foundation has formed agreements to financially support the ongoing development and maintenance of zec-qt-wallet, created by Aditya Kulkarni, and a new iOS reference wallet
The Zcash Foundation is delighted to announce the winners of our 2018Q2 Grants Program — 12 projects that will benefit the Zcash ecosystem and community. The Foundation’s Board
On October 30, the Zcash Foundation and Parity Technologies announced a technical partnership to build a consensus-compatible Zcash node. Both organizations understand the importance of
Hello everyone! You may be wondering what on earth is going on with our Grants Program. We know that this answer is unsatisfying, but we’re
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.
Zcon0 was our first annual conference, and it went incredibly well. We spent June 26 – 28 in beautiful Montréal, where we were blessed with
At Zcon0, investor Eric Meltzer proposed the Zcash Ecosystem Fund, a new project that would use some of the Founders’ Reward to create a DAO-like entity for backing
Throughout June, the Zcash Foundation carried out an experimental governance process. We first announced it back in April and recently shared the results at Zcon0 on June 28. The
Started 3pm EDT Board members in attendance: Amber Baldet, Andrew Miller, Peter Van Valkenburgh, Ian Miers, Matt Green Foundation employees also present: Josh Cincinnati (virtually),
17:00-18:05 EDT. Board members in attendance: Andrew, Matt, Peter Foundation employees also present: Josh, Antonie Discussion of proposed Conflict of Interest Policy Vote to approve
The Freedom of the Press Foundation now accepts cryptocurrency donations, including ZEC. “We plan to add more cryptocurrencies soon,” according to the announcement, “including support for donating
The Zcash Foundation governance process has commenced! Members of the Community Governance Panel are now able to vote. The deadline for voting is June 25th at 1500
The Zcash community would benefit from greater transparency on the part of hardware manufacturers, as would the broader Equihash mining ecosystem. We are making a
The Zcash Foundation asked University of Luxembourg researchers Alex Biryukov and Daniel Feher to investigate the potential presence (now or in the past) of ASIC
The Zcash Foundation is hosting a meetup in Oakland on Saturday, May 26, in association with the community group Bay Area Zcash Users. There is a Facebook
We at the Zcash Foundation are thrilled that Zcash Company Founding Scientists Eli Ben-Sasson and Alessandro Chiesa are building a new company focused on the
We at the Zcash Foundation are thrilled that Zcash Company Founding Scientists Eli Ben-Sasson and Alessandro Chiesa are building a new company focused on the
TL;DR: The Foundation is developing ASIC resistance as an option while simultaneously researching ASIC resistance The only thing hotter than the GPUs securing the Zcash
We are pleased to announce that Sonya Mann has been hired as our full-time Communications Manager for the Zcash Foundation, and our third employee. Sonya comes to
Hot off the heels of our Zcon0 and Community Governance Panel announcements, we are excited to announce the continuation of our Grant Program for the
Hot off the heels of our Zcon0 and Community Governance Panel announcements, we are excited to announce the continuation of our Grant Program for the
As mentioned in my last post, one of the cornerstones of the Foundation’s activities this year is our privacy-focused conference Zcon0. We’ve been hard at work
In November of last year, we announced the beginning of what has become the largest multi-party computation (MPC) ceremony ever performed. In the Powers of Tau ceremony, we aimed to produce
As the Foundation ramps up our work, it’s clear we need more help. I’m proud of the work the Foundation has done, and I’m consistently
16:30-17:31 GMT Board members in attendance: Peter, Andrew, Yan, Matt Foundation employees in attendance: Josh, Antonie Zcon0 Antonie presented Zcon0 budget General agreement on “no
2017 was a massive year for cryptocurrency, and for the Zcash Foundation it was no exception–a year ago, the Zcash Foundation didn’t even exist! The
In line with our newfound status as a 501(c)3 non-profit, and our mission to support privacy-preserving spaces online, we’re very pleased to announce that the Zcash
zk-SNARKs are an incredible tool for privacy preserving protocols and verifiable computation. They are short, easy to verify zero-knowledge proofs of arbitrary statements. They are also non-interactive,
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