Engineering Roadmap 2020
At the beginning of this year, executive director Josh Cincinnati set goals for the Zcash Foundation, “with a renewed energy toward redistributing centers of unilateral power in the Zcash ecosystem.” At the time, Josh was actively recruiting for ZF’s tech team, which would tackle the following strategic goals: Meaningfully extend the capabilities of ecosystem participants to […]
Accelerating SNARKs with FPGAs: Final Research Results
In July, the Foundation announced an FPGA acceleration research project. In September, FPGA engineer Ben Devlin wrapped up the engagement by presenting his work at the Taipei Ethereum Meetup. You can watch the talk on YouTube and see the slides on GitHub ? The code and documentation are also available in the GitHub repo. “We are laying the groundwork for bespoke […]
Early Results from an FPGA Acceleration Project
The Zcash Foundation is happy to announce the first results of an FPGA acceleration project, undertaken by FPGA engineer Ben Devlin. Work began in January 2019 and will continue until October, but we’re ready to show you some code! Check out the GitHub repo and the detailed architecture document. In that document, Ben wrote a high-level summary of […]
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 […]
Study: Detecting ASIC Miners in Zcash
The Zcash Foundation asked University of Luxembourg researchers Alex Biryukov and Daniel Feher to investigate the potential presence (now or in the past) of ASIC miners in the Zcash and Equihash ecosystems. This is the first step in addressing the commitments we made in our official statement on the ASIC resistance debate. Today we are jointly releasing […]