Farewell Jane
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 a solid foundation for the rest of the Zebra team to continue building upon. Beyond her technical contributions, she was a fun and supportive teammate and is clearly a top-notch […]
The Zcash Foundation Bids Farewell to Antonie Hodge
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 what she does best: bootstrapping brand new crypto non-profits for the public good. We’ll all miss Antonie very much but her departure signals the Foundation’s relative maturity in the world […]
Board Minutes: February 5, 2021
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 Gavigan. Topics discussed: Voted unanimously to add a sixth seat, so the board has the discretion to fill the seat with the ED. In the event of a 3-3 split, […]
The Zcash Foundation Welcomes An Executive Director
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 years at the Electric Coin Company, Jack’s deep knowledge of Zcash, and his alignment with the Foundation’s values makes him the ideal person to guide the Zcash Foundation into its […]
The Zcash Foundation Welcomes A New Core Engineer
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 industry for the last 5 years, as an active defender and contributor to the open source community. He started working for the Zcash protocol one year ago as a grant […]
Moving Forward: Addressing the ZOMG’s Seat Vacancy
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 role within the Zcash ecosystem. The Foundation would like to thank Sarah for her contributions to Zcash, and looks forward to her continuing important work on financial privacy at Open […]
January 14 Community Call on Halo
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, and a transcript of the chat comments. And thanks to @ZcashZeal who live-tweeted the call. The intent of the call was to discuss Halo with the community, and try to gauge the […]
Zcash Community Call: Our Thoughts on Halo
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. It is great to see the Electric Coin Company and the community excited for this shared vision. As Nathan Wilcox of the ECC stated: It’s wonderful to see this vision and […]
Goodbye, Henry
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 on our work. He designed the architecture of Zebra, the Zcash Foundation’s independent implementation of the Zcash protocol and consensus rules. Zebra has a modern Rust codebase, is memory-safe and multithreaded, […]
The Zcash Foundation Would Like to Grow User Adoption
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 the Foundation will help build the missing infrastructure that is needed to increase adoption of private, digital cash at scale. The following post will lay out the Zcash Foundation’s technical […]