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The Zcash Foundation has been granted 501(c)3 status—we are now officially a public charity! 🎉
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Some SOLID news for the
#Zcash
community.
@ZcashOMG
has approved the grant to integrate Zcash into
@THORChain
. We are eternally thankful for the contributions from
@ErikVoorhees
and
@THORChain
for making this happen!
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The Zcash Foundation is excited to announce that its annual
#Zcash
conference, Zcon3, will be held in-person, at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas, from August 7-9, 2022. Zcon3 will also have a virtual component.
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"In ten years, nobody is going to say, 'Oh that's a privacy coin,'"
@zooko
told
@christine_dkim
. "Just like how today we don't say, 'Oh HTTPS, this must be a privacy website and I must be using a privacy browser.'"
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Announcing Zcon2 Lite on June 8th & 9th: « This year, Zcon is going virtual, streaming on Youtube, with social participation via Discord. Join us for talks and panel discussions about all things Zcash and privacy-related!
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Can Zcash become a privacy layer for other blockchains? We think so! Here's how we'll start: by bringing privacy to
@cosmos
through Zcash.
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The
@ZcashFoundation
is pleased to announce the beta release of its Zebra node implementation of
#Zcash
. Developed from scratch using a memory-safe language (
#Rust
), Zebra offers several advantages and contributes to the resilience of the Zcash network.
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#Zcash
is a privacy-protecting, digital currency built on strong science. With it, people can transact efficiently and safely with low fees. Shielded $ZEC ensures transactions remain confidential while allowing people to selectively share address and transaction information.
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Due to world events, the Zcash Foundation has decided to cancel Zcon2 for 2020. At this time we are not considering an online equivalent.
In the coming fall, we will release details on the next Zcon in June 2021. Thank you for your understanding and patience!
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The Zcash Foundation is pleased to announce the release of the first stable, audited version of Zebra: Zebra 1.0.0
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We're excited to announce Zepio Wallet, a new shielded-first, cross-platform application created for the Foundation by
@andreneves
and
@_astrocoders
🥳
Check it out:
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ZF will be hosting a Space on March 2nd at 1PM ET. We'll be discussing
#Tor
Project’s approved grant, “Arti: a Rust Tor Implementation for
#Zcash
& Beyond”. Joined by:
✅the
@Torproject
&
✅ the
@ZcashCommGrants
committee
Come one, come all! 👋
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The
@ZcashFoundation
was recently joined by
@cwgoes
to give a high-level overview of Tendermint, as a standalone alternative to PoW, & the Cosmos/IBC stack as a potential platform for Zcash to migrate to.
Check out the Video on our Youtube:
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"The Zcash Foundation is delighted to announce the winners of our 2018Q2 Grants Program — 13 projects that will benefit the Zcash ecosystem and community." Read all about them here:
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Quick announcement! Mark your calendars with Zcon1 info:
• June 22 – 24, 2019
• Split, Croatia
More details are coming next week, plus the application form!
As soon as the full details are public, we'll remind you here on Twitter, as well as the forum, newsletter, etc.
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Big news! Today the Zcash Foundation announced a partnership with
@ParityTech
to build a Zcash node implementation in Rust. More details here:
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Wishing our friends at the
@ElectricCoinCo
all the best as they work towards the activation of the largest upgrade to the
#Zcash
protocol since its launch!
#HelloTrustlesSetup
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Here is the Zcash Foundation's official statement on the ASIC resistance debate:
#Zcash
$ZEC
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The Zcash Foundation is delighted to support
@torproject
's Walking Onions scalability solution with a grant!
"People and organizations are looking for trustworthy, proven ways to retain their privacy," the team wrote. Let's make the tech that we all need.
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We are thrilled to announce that
@yaahc_
and Teor have joined the Zcash Foundation as Rust Systems Engineers, where they'll be focused on accelerating the Foundation's ambitious engineering roadmap. Welcome to them both! 🦓🦓🦓
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The Zcash Foundation is proud to support our friends at the Internet Archive—a non-profit with the critical mission of providing universal access to the world's information, now accepting ZEC!
Wondering what to do with your cryptocurrency windfall? Internet Archive is now accepting donations in Bitcoin Cash and Zcash!
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Having multiple node implementations attracts a broader audience of developers who can start contributing in a language that they are familiar with. Through ZF's work on Zebra, Rust developers can easily contribute to
#Zcash
. Here's a cool video of the evolution of zebra!🦓🦓🦓🦓
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Are you interested in organizing Zcash meetups in your area? Please get in touch so we can support you! contact
@z
.cash.foundation
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Woohoo!🎉 Zebra Beta.8 is now available on the
#Zcash
testnet! The latest beta completes our work on NU5 consensus rules, and it continues our work on lightwalletd RPC methods. Zebra's beta.8 also contains some internal CI improvements.
🦓🦓🦓 deets:
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The Zcash Foundation's newest team member is
@hdevalence
, coming on as Principal Cryptographic Researcher!
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Thorchain will enable
#decentralized
native $ZEC swaps with popular currencies. Zcash being the digital money focussed on privacy; adding support on a DEX instead of wrapping the ZEC with a custodian opens up tremendous opportunity for existing and new Zcash users to acquire ZEC.
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In accordance with the ZF/ECC trademark agreement, the memo below represents the mutual agreement between the ZF and ECC endorsing the NU5 Network Upgrade, implemented for both Zebra and zcashd:
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Say it LOUDER
@torproject
, for the people in the back!! 🙌🛡️
Privacy isn't about hiding bad things. It's about protecting what makes us humans: our day-to-day behavior, our personality, our fears, our relationships, and our vulnerabilities. Everyone deserves privacy online.
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We are very excited to announce that
@JackGavigan
is the new Executive Director of the Zcash Foundation:
Many thanks to our board
@socrates1024
,
@valkenburgh
,
@AmberBaldet
,
@secparam
,
@matthew_d_green
) for all their diligence on making this happen.
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The ZF team is super thrilled that Zebra was ready and running before
#NU5
testnet activation. It successfully validated the NU5 activation block & started verifying v5 transactions.
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We're excited to share the news that the
@ElectricCoinCo
and
@ZcashFoundation
have agreed to collaborate on transitioning core Zcash protocol development from zcashd to Zebra! 🦓
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"This block was mined using Zebra” 🦓
@ZcashFoundation
Cryptography Engineer,
@upbqdn
has mined the 1st
#Zcash
mainnet block using Zebra!
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Which privacy-oriented cryptocurrency projects are you most interested in, besides Zcash and Monero? We follow a few, but we'd love to hear which teams and approaches are the most exciting to you! There is plenty of room for mutual learning and collaboration 🥰
#ZcashZeal
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@Trezor
has announced its completion M.2. which features:
- Derivation of spending keys
- Orchard shielded addresses
- Unified Addresses & more
This moves them to the 3rd and the most complex stage of the firmware development - transaction signing.
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The Zcash Foundation is excited to announce the 1st stable release of 'frost-core', a reference implementation of Two-Round Threshold Schnorr Signatures with FROST, written in Rust.
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Big news for your Friday afternoon — our new platform for grants and community funding is live on the Zcash testnet!
All about ZF Grants and how it works:
Example proposal:
Bug bounty:
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The world's largest digital currency asset manager -
@Grayscale
has today announced that Grayscale® Zcash Trust has begun trading on the OTCQX® Best Market, the top tier operated by OTC Markets Group Inc., under symbols ZCSH. Read about it here:
#Zcash
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ZF is pleased to announce:
1⃣ The completion of its website revamp. ();
2⃣ The launch of the new
#Zcash
Grants Hub - the central point of access for
@ZcashCommGrants
, Zcash Foundation Grants, and other community funding programs. ()
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We are delighted to present the first cohort of Zcash Minor Grants recipients, as selected by the Zcash community:
- Unified Address parsing and construction library for .NET by
@aarnott
- Research on Zcash’s KYC-Free Infrastructure by
@iansagstette
- Dizzy Wallet: A Dedicated
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Ten Community Projects Chosen for the 2017Q4 Grant Program Awards
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Preparing Zcash for user adoption: what we can learn from Signal's rapid growth
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One-page introduction to Zcash 🦓🤗🦓👯
Black-and-white:
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#Zcon4
Speaker Announcement!
@zooko
is the founder and CEO of the
@ElectricCoinCo
He is a long-serving technologist and entrepreneur. His experience spans open, decentralized systems; cryptography; information security; and startups.
#Zcash
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Zebra beta.9 is out! The latest beta continues our work on lightwalletd RPC methods, and it also contains some internal CI improvements. A huge shout out to the Zebra engineers for all of your hard work. It certainly does not go unnoticed❣️
🦓 details:
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The Zcash Foundation's engineering roadmap for 2020!
AKA what
@gtank__
@hdevalence
@durumcrustulum
and
@chelseakomlo
will be working on in the coming year 👀
#Zcash
$ZEC 🦓
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The Zcash Foundation is ready for 2021, and we want to grow user adoption
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The Zcash Foundation has pledged to support the upcoming Monero Konferenco in Denver, Colorado, which coincides with Zcon1.
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#Zcon4
Speaker Announcement!
@naomibrockwell
is a tech journalist, & creator of NBTV, which teaches people how to reclaim control of their lives in the digital age. The channel gives people the tools they need to take back their privacy, money, & free online expression.
#Zcash
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📢
#Zcon3
speaker highlight:
@str4d
Jack is a cryptographic engineer who started at the
@ElectricCoinCo
as a software engineer & ex-physicist in 2016. He built Zcash’s PoW subsystem & has since contributed to the design & implementation of most of the consensus protocol changes.
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Today is
#GlobalEncryptionDay
! 🛡️
At the
@ZcashFoundation
, we build financial privacy infrastructure for the public good. The way we see it, encrypting sensitive information is just as important as locking your home when you leave.
@encryption_day
#EncryptionDay
#PrivacyMatters
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In Summer 2023, the
@ZcashFoundation
engaged
@NCCGroupInfosec
to conduct a security assessment of the Foundation’s FROST threshold signature implementation, based on the paper FROST: Flexible Round-Optimized Schnorr Threshold Signatures.
👇
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ZF will be hosting our first (of many) spaces on Wednesday at 1PM ET, joined by:
✅the
@qeditzkp
team &
✅the
@ZcashCommGrants
committee.
We invite the entire
#Zcash
community to join in on the discussion, as we unpack the newly-approved ZSAs grant.
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What's the first thing that got you interested in
#Zcash
?
The more specific the better, but all answers welcome 🤓 $ZEC
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Thank you
@rust_blockchain
for shining a light on
@torproject
's Arti which is funded by
@zcashomg
. Successful deployment of
#Arti
will mean that
#Zcash
ecosystem developers will be able to embed Arti for improved network
#privacy
, with minimal hassle.
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@ZcashOMG
has just approved the
@cakewallet
grant.
Cake Wallet is one of the most used privacy-conscious mobile wallets. Their building of a Zcash wallet will enable Zcash to take advantage of Cake's development efforts, integrations, and user base.
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@getsqt
@decredproject
@monero
@Bitcoin
@behindtext
@grinMW
@beamprivacy
@Dashpay
Small correction,
@PirateChain
has a larger anonymity set.
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The
@ZcashFoundation
is excited to announce what we hope will become a new series of hyper-local events called “Zcon Voices.”
The first event is called “Zcon Vozes,” which will be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on March 18th, delivered in Portuguese.
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A cypherpunk privacy reading list:
Or perhaps a privacy reading list for cypherpunks 🤔
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Congratulations to the Rust Foundation! We are very excited to see our ZF engineer
@yaahc_
being recognized for her Rust expertise by being on this inaugural board.
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We have tagged a new release of Zebra, our independent, consensus-compatible implementation of a Zcash node, built in Rust.
This release includes various security improvements, and adds a new feature to store Zcash block data in an elasticsearch
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A simple point-of-sale app for Zcash and Bitcoin:
"The server is self-hosted, uses a home internet connection and the client runs on a smartphone/browser — that way the shop owner sets it up and his helpers use their own phones."
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The
@ZcashFoundation
is excited to announce a new addition to the
#Zcash
ecosystem:
@ZFAVClub
Our vision is to establish a network of capable, ready, & funded content creators broadcasting & sharing fresh news about Zcash and online privacy.
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"It is not a coincidence that freedom-oriented organizations are early adopters of Zcash. They understand that privacy protects autonomy, especially in repressive environments."
Congrats to
@FreedomofPress
, which now accepts cryptocurrency donations! $ZEC
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Kryptology will enable and empower developers to create novel crypto innovations with state-of-the-art cryptography. Coinbase also aims to bring near future cryptography such as FROST (an invention of the Zcash Foundation), into production.
More here:
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Zebra 1.0.0-rc.8 was released last week:
"This release adds the ZIP-317 rules to mempool transactions which should help with the Zcash network spam issue.”
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Announcing our 2018 Q2 Grant Program, now with $250,000 of grant money in $zec for prospective projects.
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Subscribe to our newsletter for regular updates from the Foundation, and news from the Zcash ecosystem:
#Zcash
$ZEC
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We are pleased to announce a successful audit of
@chelseakomlo
's FROST implementation by
@veorq
,
@OmerShlomovits
&
@adr1anh
. This is a key step toward enabling the use of threshold signatures to allow multisig-style functionality for shielded transactions.
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Every day a new $ZEC-focused Twitter account appears ☺️ It's exciting when fresh voices join the
#Zcash
community!
Don't be shy, we're friendly. Introduce yourself! Pseudonyms are welcome — it's a privacy-positive crowd around here 😉
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Arti is an ongoing project by
@torproject
to create a working embeddable Tor client in Rust. The project is funded by the
@ZcashCommGrants
previously known as the Zcash Open Major Grants or ZOMG.
Arti 0.0.4 release is now live, and we need your help! We need feedback on our APIs. Sure, we think we're making them more complete and ergonomic… but it's the users' opinion that matters! Find out how to test the APIs and give feedback:
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Zcash community, we need your meme talents! (Clearly.)
Enter our contest for a chance to win $10 in ZEC:
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The month of October was full of wins for the Zcash Foundation and the Zcash ecosystem as a whole. Read about it in the
@ZcashFoundation
October Newsletter 👉:
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The Zcash Foundation is excited to share our vision for the next two Zcon conferences:
ZconV (virtual) in May 2024 and Zcon6 (in-person) tentatively scheduled for the first quarter of 2025.
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Zebra nodes can now be seen on blockchair! 🦓🦓🦓
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ZF hit 12K followers today. Thanks Twitter Fam. (And Happy Friday!)
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The Zcash Foundation is releasing its Q3 2021 transparency report. This report describes our financial inflow & outflows, with a detailed breakdown of our expenses and a snapshot of the Foundation's financial position. Access the Q3 report here:
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The Zcash Foundation has released its Zebra beta.6 which adds RPC server support, including some of the RPC calls needed to become a lightwalletd back end. A huge shoutout to all the Zebra engineers for all of their continued hard work!👏
Beta details 👇
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We are delighted to welcome
@JWVerret
and
@MartaBelcher
to the board of the
@ZcashFoundation
:
Thank you to
@Matthew_D_Green
and Ian
@secparam
Miers for their service. They will continue to serve on the ZF Technical Advisory Board.
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Introducing the alpha version of the Zebra Launcher, which enables Zebra to be installed and run on common operating systems without a command-line interface (CLI) or any prerequisites other than the operating system itself.
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Here's the first Zcash testnet block mined using a block template generated by Zebra, our Rust implementation of Zcash:
A small but significant step towards our goal of a second Zcash node implementation! 🎉🦓
More info here:
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Join us in welcoming
@gtank__
as the Zcash Foundation's director of engineering!
"George will take responsibility for all of our engineering efforts, especially our independent Zcash node Zebra," working closely with
@hdevalence
and
@durumcrustulum
🦓🦓🦓
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Announcing Zebra 1.3.0!
✅ support for Spend before Sync for lightwalletd
✅ progress bars in terminal
- a Zebra-backed lightwalletd server can now query Zebra using the new and updated RPC methods for the Spend before Sync light wallet feature
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Today, we are announcing a new, experimental Zcash Foundation grants program, which we have nicknamed “Minor Grants”
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#TeamZcash
continues to grow! We're delighted to welcome Janito to the Foundation, as a core engineer: « Janito has a background in both Rust programming and privacy-preserving technologies, having worked on the Mullvad VPN client. Welcome Janito! 🎉
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