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

• Scaling Tor with Walking Onions

  May 20, 2020 Why Walking Onions is an exciting project for scaling anonymity networks and user privacy in general.
• Bringing Privacy to Cosmos with Zcash

  May 06, 2020 An early look at how we’ll bridge Cosmos and Zcash.
• Privacy Infrastructure for the Public Good

  May 04, 2020 The Zcash Foundation’s raison d’être as an organization.
• The Zcash Foundation's 2020 Q1 Report

  April 17, 2020 What we’ve been working on during the first quarter of the year.
• Next Steps for the Major Grant Review Committee

  April 15, 2020 Outlining a process to elect the MGRC’s first members and establish its independence.
• Assessing Mixnet Production-Readiness

  April 10, 2020 A discussion of mixnets and requirements for distributed anonymity networks in practice.
• Privacy-Preserving Contact Tracing with the TCN Coalition

  April 07, 2020 The Zcash Foundation joins the TCN Coalition to collaborate with other groups on advancing privacy-preserving contact tracing.
• Private Contact Tracing Protocols Compared: DP-3T and CEN

  April 06, 2020 A comparison of the DP-3T and CEN protocols for private contact tracing.
• Design Tradeoffs in Privacy-Preserving Contact Tracing

  March 27, 2020 Discussion of some design tradeoffs for privacy-preserving contact tracing protocols.
• Let's Develop Decentralized, Privacy-Preserving Contact Tracing

  March 23, 2020 A call-to-action to develop a decentralized, privacy-preserving contact tracing protocol for COVID-19 response.