The Zcash Foundation is a 501(c)(3) public charity that builds financial privacy infrastructure for the public good, primarily serving the users of the Zcash protocol and blockchain.

We serve the users of the Zcash protocol and blockchain. The Foundation also supports other applications of zero-knowledge cryptography, as well as other approaches to private cryptocurrency.

Announcements and Updates

• Farewell to George

  September 23, 2020
• The Zcash Foundation Welcomes A New Operations Manager

  September 16, 2020 Welcome Danika!
• September 4 Community Call, MGRC Candidates

  September 05, 2020 Get to know the candidates
• Zcash Network Privacy: An Assessment of Current State and Future Work.

  September 02, 2020 We at the Foundation assess the network privacy for users of Zcash and future improvements.
• Meet the MGRC Candidates and Finalized List of Members in the Community Advisory Panel

  September 02, 2020 Preparing for the September 7 Vote
• Zcash Foundation Obligations to ZIP1014 and the MGRC

  August 31, 2020 Here is the Foundation’s role in administering the MG slice
• August 18 Community Call on MGRC Structure

  August 21, 2020 Here is a summary of the call.
• Expanding Membership to the Zcash Community Advisory Panel

  August 17, 2020 The Zcash Foundation is opening up the Community Advisory Panel to more voting members prior to the MGRC vote.
• The Zcash Foundation Bids Farewell to its First Executive Director

  July 31, 2020 We welcome a new chapter for the Foundation.
• Announcing a New Version of FROST

  July 15, 2020 We are pleased to announce that our new version of FROST, a flexible round-optimized Schnorr threshold signature scheme, has been published.