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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]