Announcing ZF’s 3-Year Vision for Community Events
The Zcash Foundation is excited to share our roadmap of events for the next three years. This tentative plan is designed to support learning, collaboration, and innovation across the global Zcash community. While the overall vision is represented below, specifics may shift over time in response to factors like available resources, community needs, and partnership […]
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’s First Defcon
Defcon 27 is a week away, and the Zcash Foundation will be there! (Hopefully the locusts will clear up.) We’re hosting an informal happy hour on Thursday, joined by Guarda Wallet CMO Maria Carola. Expect conversation, refreshments, and zebra stripes. Date: Thursday, August 8 Time: 5:30pm – 8:30pm Address: 5380 Cameron Street #10, Las Vegas, Nevada 15 minutes by car from the Las Vegas Strip […]
Zcon1 Recap
Zcon1, the second annual privacy and technology conference hosted by the Zcash Foundation, was held in Split, Croatia on June 22 – 24, 2019. It was a smashing success, and we’re so grateful to the speakers and attendees for participating! Zero-knowledge cryptography researchers and cryptocurrency engineers from around the world came together to share knowledge and […]
Monero Konferenco and Zcon1 Joint Panel
Joint statement from the Zcash Foundation and the organizers of the Monero Konferenco. On June 23, the Monero Konferenco and Zcon1 will share a transatlantic panel on the regulatory environment for privacy-preserving cryptocurrencies. These forms of digital money enable people to transact without needing anyone else’s permission, and without exposing information about their funds and spending choices to the […]
The Second ZKProof Standards Workshop
The first ZKProof Standards Workshop was productive, with more than 70 participants from both academia and industry. “If we succeed, people will be able to prove things about their data, but without having to share that data,” QED-it CEO Jonathan Rouach said in the recap video. Rouach called zero-knowledge proofs a “whole revolution” in technical privacy capabilities. The […]