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

• 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.
• Decoding Bitcoin Messages with Tokio Codecs

  February 25, 2020 How we used Tokio’s codec functionality to implement the Bitcoin wire protocol
• Composable Futures-based Batch Verification

  January 31, 2020 This post describes a new implementation strategy for batch verification in Zebra.
• The State of the Zcash Foundation in 2020

  January 31, 2020 An explanation of the Zcash Foundation’s plans and finances in 2020.
• ZIP 1014 Poll Results

  January 30, 2020 We have convergence!
• A New Network Stack For Zcash

  January 28, 2020 We give a deep dive into the network architecture of Zebra, the Foundation’s Zcash node implementation
• Polling Community Sentiment on ZIP 1014

  January 15, 2020 Resolving the final details on a critical NU4 upgrade
• ZF Grants 2.0

  December 11, 2019 Improvements and updates to the Zcash Foundation’s grants program.
• Presenting a Modified ZIP 1012

  December 11, 2019 The Foundation presents its modifications to ZIP 1012 as a path forward for NU4.