Embracing AI, Protecting Privacy: How Zebra Approaches AI-Assisted Contributions
AI coding tools are changing how open source software gets built. At Zcash Foundation, we’ve seen this firsthand: AI-assisted contributions have helped us ship features faster, enabled contributors who are new to Rust or to the Zcash protocol to make meaningful contributions, and accelerated our development velocity across four major releases—in the last three months […]
Zebra 4.1.0 Release
The Zcash Foundation is pleased to announce Zebra 4.1.0, a release focused on expanding observability with comprehensive Prometheus metrics and Grafana dashboards, while strengthening mempool compliance with zcashd. This release contains no breaking changes for node operators. What’s New in 4.1.0 Observability: See Inside Your Node Zebra 4.1.0 significantly expands monitoring capabilities to give operators […]
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 […]
Zebra 4.0.0 Release: Enhanced Observability and Developer Experience
The Zcash Foundation is pleased to announce the release of Zebra 4.0.0. This release focuses on improving observability, streamlining operations, and enhancing developer experience. What’s New in Zebra 4.0.0 ⤷ Better Observability and Tracing We’ve significantly improved the local development experience with new observability infrastructure: Additionally, Zebra now includes comprehensive distributed tracing support through OpenTelemetry […]
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 […]