Zcash Foundation: 2025 Year in Review
As we look back on 2025, Zcash Foundation (ZF) celebrates a year of progress, collaboration, and strategic growth that strengthened the Zcash ecosystem and advanced financial privacy for the public good. Across technical development, governance, and community initiatives, our shared work this year reflected the Foundation’s enduring belief that privacy is essential infrastructure for human […]
Strengthening the Zcash Network: Announcing a Native Rust DNS Seeder
At Zcash Foundation, our mission is to build and support infrastructure that ensures Zcash remains a secure, private, and decentralized financial system. As always, our focus remains unwavering: we are here to ship code that keeps Zcash running. Today, we are proud to announce a significant addition to the Zcash ecosystem: a native Rust implementation […]
Zebra 3.1.0 Release
The Zcash Foundation is pleased to announce the release of Zebra 3.1.0. Hot on the heels of the Zebra 3.0.0 release, Zebra 3.1.0 is a stability and infrastructure-focused release that improves Docker support across architectures, tightens mempool hygiene with a new dust filter, and makes Zebra’s RPC interface more capable for power users. It also […]
Zebra NU6.1 Audit
During Q3 2025, Least Authority (in their role as the Zcash Ecosystem Security Lead) undertook an audit of the changes implemented in Zebra in order to support the NU6.1 Zcash network upgrade. We are pleased to announce that the audit was favorable and that, at the time of writing, we have addressed all of the […]
Zebra 3.0.0 Release: Our Most Feature-Rich Release Ever
We’re excited to announce the release of Zebra 3.0.0—the most feature-rich Zebra release ever! In addition to supporting NU6.1, the latest network upgrade, we’ve also focused on making Zebra easier to run in production, faster to sync, and available on more platforms. Zebra 3 at a Glance Here’s what’s new in this release: New Versioning […]
Zebra 3.0.0-rc.0 Release
The Zcash Foundation is pleased to announce the release of Zebra 3.0.0-rc.0. This release candidate includes the mainnet activation height for the Zcash Network Upgrade 6.1 (NU6.1) which will activate at block height 3,146,400. Support for this release is set to expire before the NU6.1 activation height. If we find no issues with this release […]
Making Zebra More Accessible: Major CI/CD Improvements for Contributors
Over the past several months, we’ve made significant changes to Zebra’s continuous integration and testing infrastructure. For those new to the project, Zebra is the Zcash Foundation’s full-node implementation written in Rust, providing an independent, memory-safe, and consensus-compatible alternative to zcashd. These improvements make it easier for anyone to fork the repository, test their changes, […]
Zebra 2.5.0 Release
We’re excited to announce that Zebra 2.5.0 was released on 08-07-2025, with the most notable update being the implementation and deployment of NU6.1 in the Zcash public Testnet. The network upgrade was successfully activated on 08-11-2025. For full details, see the 2.5.0 release notes. NU6.1 was scheduled to activate at Testnet block height 3,536,500, following […]
Zebra 2.4.2 Release
We have released Zebra v2.4.2. Included are security fixes, bug fixes, and new features. If you are currently using Zebra, please take note of any breaking changes. For full details, please refer to the release notes. We had to pull an earlier release due to a database upgrade bug that was introduced in v2.4.0. If […]
Zebra 2.3.0 Release
The Zcash Foundation is pleased to announce the release of Zebra 2.3.0. This release includes a number of improvements to regtest mode, by adding methods to reconsider and invalidate blocks, as well as fixing a bug that was preventing some transparent transactions from being served by Zebra in regtest mode. Additionally, this release restores Zebra’s […]