Zcash Foundation Welcomes a New Global Events and Operations Manager
We are pleased to welcome Valerie Leisten, who joins ZF as our Global Events and Operations Manager. Valerie has more than eight years of experience spanning operations, project management, and stakeholder coordination within international, multi-stakeholder environments. She has led event and program delivery, supported senior leadership, and acted as a reliable first point of contact […]
Zcash Foundation Welcomes a New Platform Engineer
We are pleased to welcome Andrés Rodríguez, who joins ZF as a Platform Engineer (DevOps/SRE). Andrés has more than eight years of experience spanning cloud infrastructure, ERP systems, and platform automation across both the private and public sectors. He has helped organizations modernize their systems and adopt DevOps practices, building scalable and reliable platforms for […]
Zcash Foundation Q4 2025 Report
The Zcash Foundation is committed to transparency and openness with the Zcash community and our other stakeholders. Today, we are releasing our Q4 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 […]
Zcash Foundation 2026: Stewardship and Innovation
As we begin 2026, the Zcash Foundation (ZF) stands at a pivotal moment in its mission to steward privacy-preserving financial infrastructure for the public good. This year our priorities reflect both maturity and ambition. Across engineering, community engagement, and humanitarian initiatives, we are strengthening the tools that make privacy possible, deepening our collaborative partnerships, and […]
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 […]
The Zcash Network: Strength in Decentralization, Unity in Purpose
In light of recent developments at Electric Coin Company, Zcash Foundation would like to reaffirm several key facts about the Zcash network and our enduring role in the ecosystem. Zcash is—and always has been—a decentralized, open-source protocol. No single contributor, team, or organization controls Zcash. In fact, Zcash was deliberately designed for resilience. Its codebase […]
Zcash Foundation Announces New Leadership Appointments
The Zcash Foundation (ZF) is proud to announce the appointments of Pili Guerra and Danika Delano to our leadership team, reflecting our commitment to promoting from within and recognizing the exceptional talent that has been instrumental to our success. Pili Guerra: Head of Engineering Pili has been promoted from Engineering Manager to Head of Engineering, […]
Board Appoints Alex Bornstein as Executive Director
The Zcash Foundation (ZF) is proud to announce the appointment of Alex Bornstein as Executive Director, effective November 1, 2025. Since stepping in as Interim Executive Director in March 2025, Alex has led ZF through a pivotal chapter—revitalizing partnerships, strengthening community trust, and sharpening the Foundation’s strategic focus for measurable impact. His leadership has contributed […]
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 […]
Changing of the Guard
My first involvement in Zcash was nearly ten years ago. At the time, Zooko was trying to raise funding to build Zcash, and I gave him some feedback on his investor pitch. We stayed in contact, and I became an advisor to the Zerocoin Electric Coin Company (as ECC was then known). About a month […]