Expanding the Community Advisory Panel
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 Foundation board members’ terms are expiring this year (having been temporarily extended during the pandemic). As per the recommendation of ZIP 1014, we will be soliciting advisory input from the […]
The Zcash Foundation Welcomes A New Chief Operating Officer
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 governmental and non-profit sectors, beginning with a domestic operations and supply chain focus and then progressing to international non-profit leadership. Alex has managed operations for a large fire district in […]
The Zcash Foundation Welcomes A New Core Engineer
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 the last ten years. He is passionate about using the Rust programming language. This passion started three years ago while he was writing test software in Rust at the Brazilian […]
Announcing Zcon2 Lite on June 8th & 9th
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 hugely successful but the event of last year forced us to postpone Zcon2. With ongoing travel restrictions and mandatory quarantines, we’ve decided to stage a virtual (or “lite”) edition of Zcon […]
The Zcash Foundation Welcomes Another New Cryptography Engineer
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 software implementation of cryptographic algorithms such as elliptic curves, pairings, and authenticated encryption during his Masters and PhD studies at the University of Campinas. Since then, he has been working […]
The Zcash Foundation’s 2020 State of the Foundation
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 and Q4 quarterly reports. TLDR Last year was an interesting one for the Zcash Foundation. We doubled the team, while at the same time said goodbye to others. We had […]
The Zcash Foundation has Finished an Audit of FROST
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 include support for re-randomization nor the DKG, but these will be features that we will add next (and will complete separate audits for each). For this audit, we worked with […]
Bylaws Amendment 4
Adds new section 5 in Article VI, renumbers subsequent articles accordingly. Article VI: Meetings of the Board 1. In the event there are an even number of Directors present at a meeting of the Board and there is an even split between the votes cast, the Chairman of the Board will cast the deciding vote.
Board Minutes: March 26, 2021
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: Voted unanimously to accept the new Bylaws Amendment 4. Voted unanimously to appoint Jack Gavigan to the board. Voted unanimously to appoint Jack Gavigan as Secretary. Voted unanimously to contribute towards […]
The Zcash Foundation Welcomes A New Cryptography Engineer
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 currently pursuing a Masters in Computer Science at the Czech Technical University, where he also was a mentor in cryptography classes. His research includes work on algebraic cryptanalysis. Marek will […]