The Zcash Foundation’s Q2 2025 Report
The Zcash Foundation is committed to transparency and openness with the Zcash community and our other stakeholders. Today, we are releasing our Q2 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 […]
FROST 2.2.0 Release
We have released FROST v2.2.0, which includes a security fix. There are no breaking changes in this release. For full details, please refer to the release notes. Security Fix This release adds validation for the min_signers parameter in the frost_core::keys::refresh functions. Before, it was not clear that it was not possible to change min_signers with […]
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 […]
The State of FROST for Zcash
FROST, which stands for Flexible Round-Optimized Schnorr Threshold, is an advanced cryptographic protocol designed to improve threshold signature schemes. Unlike traditional single-party signatures, FROST enables a group of participants to collaboratively generate digital signatures using shares of a private key, so that only a specified threshold of participants is needed to authorize a transaction. This […]
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 […]
The Zcash Foundation’s Q1 2025 Report
The Zcash Foundation is committed to transparency and openness with the Zcash community and our other stakeholders. Today, we are releasing our Q1 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 […]
The Zcash Foundation’s Q4 2024 Report
The Zcash Foundation is committed to transparency and openness with the Zcash community and our other stakeholders. Today, we are releasing our Q4 2024 report, which provides an overview of the work undertaken by the Zcash Foundation’s engineering team, as well as an overview of other activities during this period. As with our previous quarterly […]
Zebra as a package in the Arch User Repository
Marek Bielik introduces the new Zebra package for Arch Linux.
Visualize Zcash Blockchain Data with Zebra + Elasticsearch + Kibana
Alfredo Garcia describes a new Zebra feature to store Zcash block data in an elasticsearch database, which allows us to use Kibana to explore and visualize the data.
Statement on Recent Security Disclosures by Halborn
Today, Halborn disclosed vulnerabilities in some code forks of Bitcoin Core, which could be exploited to crash nodes. An attacker could potentially take advantage of these vulnerabilities to crash mining nodes, and thus reduce (by approximately 50%) the amount of hashpower required to mount a 51% attack. Zcash was one of the currencies affected by […]