Zcash Foundation Welcomes a New Global Events and Operations Manager
We are pleased to welcome Valerie Leisten, who joins ZF as our Global Events and Operations Manager. Valerie has more than eight years of experience spanning operations, project management, and stakeholder coordination within international, multi-stakeholder environments. She has led event and program delivery, supported senior leadership, and acted as a reliable first point of contact […]
Zebra 4.4.1: Critical Security Fix
We are releasing Zebra 4.4.1 today. This release contains a fix for a consensus-critical security vulnerability, and we strongly encourage all node operators to upgrade immediately. You can update directly to it if you have not updated for the last couple of releases. Note that the 4.4.0 release was just three days ago. If you […]
Zebra 4.4.0: Critical Security Fixes
We are releasing Zebra 4.4.0 today. This release contains fixes for multiple security vulnerabilities, including several consensus-critical issues, and we strongly encourage all node operators to upgrade immediately. Security Advisories GHSA-28xj-328h-72vm: Permanent Block Discovery Halt via Gossip Queue Saturation + Syncer Poisoning Zebra’s block discovery pipeline contained a composite denial-of-service vulnerability that allowed a remote […]
Zcash Foundation Welcomes a New Platform Engineer
We are pleased to welcome Andrés Rodríguez, who joins ZF as a Platform Engineer (DevOps/SRE). Andrés has more than eight years of experience spanning cloud infrastructure, ERP systems, and platform automation across both the private and public sectors. He has helped organizations modernize their systems and adopt DevOps practices, building scalable and reliable platforms for […]
FROST Release v3.0.0
We have just released FROST v3.0.0. You can find frost-core and the ciphersuite crates available on crates.io. This stable release follows v3.0.0-rc.0, which introduced the bulk of the changes in this major version. If you are upgrading from v2.x, please read the RC release post for the full picture—the changes described here are what’s new […]
Zebra 4.3.1: Critical Security Fixes, Dockerized Mining and CI Hardening
We are releasing Zebra 4.3.1 today. This release contains fixes for a number of vulnerabilities, and all node operators are strongly encouraged to upgrade immediately. In addition to the security fix, this release introduces a Dockerized mining setup, automated checkpoint management, and a number of CI hardening improvements. Security Advisories CVE-2026-40880: Transaction Verification Cache Consensus […]
Zebra 4.2.0 Release
Zcash Foundation is pleased to announce Zebra 4.2.0. This release expands RPC functionality, strengthens mempool policy compliance, and adds deeper state querying capabilities. This release also completes the migration to OpenRPC for API documentation and moves the Python QA test framework to the standalone integration-tests repository. What’s New in 4.2.0 RPC: A More Complete Interface […]
Zcash Foundation Q4 2025 Report
The Zcash Foundation is committed to transparency and openness with the Zcash community and our other stakeholders. Today, we are releasing our Q4 2025 report, which provides an overview of the work undertaken by our engineering team, as well as an overview of other activities during this period. As with our previous quarterly reports, this […]
NU7 Polling Results: What We Heard and Where We Go From Here
Thank you to everyone who participated in the NU7 sentiment polling — ZCAP members, coinholders, the Engineering Caucus, ZecHub, Zcash Brasil, Zcash Español, and Zcash Türkiye. The breadth of participation reflects how seriously this community takes protocol governance, and we don’t take that for granted. We want to be direct: the results reveal both meaningful […]
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. […]