Electric Coin Company

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Electric Coin Co. builds and supports technology to provide people with access to a fair and open currency — regardless of location or demographic. ECC launched Zcash — a privacy-protecting, digital currency built on vanguard science — in 2016.

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United States, Colorado, Broomfield

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11-50

Founded date

2016

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Mar 9, 2026	Cypherpunk Technologies: $5 Million Investment In Zcash Open Development Lab To Advance Privacy Infrastructure	Cypherpunk Technologies, a privacy technology company focused on digital asset treasury strategies anchored by Zcash, announced a $5 million investment in Zcash Open Development Lab (ZODL), marking the company’s first technology investment ...
May 31, 2022	Zcash’s NU5 Upgrade Goes Live, Boosting Privacy and Removing ‘Trusted Setups’	Zcash (ZEC), one of the cryptocurrency market’s longest-running privacy coins, is getting even more private. On Tuesday, at block height 1,687,104 (about 17:56 UTC), the NU5 upgrade with the Halo Arc product suite was activated on the mainn...
Mar 9, 2022	‘People Will Get Burned’: Matt Odell on the Long Road to Bitcoin Privacy	Ask a hundred people what Bitcoin is and you are bound to get a hundred different answers. It’s “digital gold.” An uncensorable transaction network. A high-alpha buy tracking tech stocks. One thing is clear, however. Bitcoin is not an effec...
Jan 26, 2022	What Is Zcash? The Privacy Coin Explained	In a world where our personal information, interests and activities are being increasingly tracked and documented, it’s little surprise cryptocurrencies that offer users anonymity continue to remain popular despite efforts from regulators a...
Jul 22, 2021	Zcash Foundation	The Zcash Foundation is a non-profit organization launched in 2017 by the Electric Coin Company (ECC), which created zcash, a privacy-focused cryptocurrency. The organization aims to focus on financial privacy, support the infrastructure of...
Apr 12, 2021	Zcash Announces 'Halo Arc' and Timeline for Protocol Privacy Update	Electric Coin Company (ECC) has announced the next suite of upgrades to privacy coin Zcash – Halo Arc. Halo Arc includes updates to Zcashd (Zcash’s consensus node), an ECC wallet prototype and the ECC wallet software development kits (SDKs)...
Jan 25, 2021	We Have Entered the Age of Anonymous Crypto	Recently, following a change to Whatsapp’s privacy policy, hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world left for other services. Signal, an encrypted messenger service, saw so many sign-ups that it temporarily crashed. This was f...
Jan 15, 2021	Bittrex Won't Disclose Why It Withdrew Support for Dash, Zcash, Monero	Numerous exchanges, like Bittrex, have delisted coins that have features to protect user privacy. Explanations of why they’ve done so have been vague or non-existent. It has set up clashes between the exchanges and Zcash, Monero and Dash ov...
Nov 18, 2020	Zcash Undergoes First Halving as Major Upgrade Drops 'Founders Reward'	Four years after forking from Bitcoin, privacy-centric blockchain network Zcash has completed its first halving and rolled out a major upgrade that does away with the unpopular "Founders Reward." At 12:37 UTC, Zcash passed block h...
Oct 12, 2020	Zcash's Electric Coin Company Shifts to Non-Profit Status Following Stockholder Vote	The technical firm behind privacy cryptocurrency zcash (ZEC) is in the process of transitioning to a non-profit, called the Bootstrap Project, after a majority of shareholders elected to donate their holdings in the company. “A majority of ...
Sep 29, 2020	Crypto Co-ops and Game Theory: Why the Internet Must Learn to Collaborate to Survive	If the internet was a person, ARPANET was its first tooth, Facebook was the pubescent rage of middle school and Bitcoin was the key to its first car. Today, we find ourselves riding shotgun, unsure of what direction the internet will take n...
Jul 16, 2020	Zcash Latest Hard Fork 'Heartwood' Makes Mining Private	Privacy coin zcash has successfully hard forked in the planned network update “Heartwood.” With the update, miners can receive coinbase transactions right to a private address, in addition to other new features. The hard fork occurred on Ju...
Jun 19, 2020	The Zcash Privacy Tech Underlying Ethereum’s Transition to Eth 2.0	Ethereum’s consensus algorithm is not the only thing changing with the launch of Eth 2.0. The underlying cryptography itself is getting an overhaul based on leading research out of the Electric Coin Company. Called BLS12-381, the new ellipt...
May 25, 2020	Zcash's First Halving May Solve Its Inflation Problem	Mining reward halvings are a hot topic in the crypto markets because they alter a cryptocurrency’s supply and often have a significant impact on prices. Bitcoin, the biggest cryptocurrency by market value, underwent its third halving on May...
Apr 16, 2020	Nym Technologies launches privacy-protection platform	Following a successful pilot test of the testnet – an alternative blockchain used by developers to prototype software and updates to ensure stability before launch – last December with a few individuals and companies including include Block...
Apr 16, 2020	Nym Technologies launches privacy-protection platform	Founded by an international team of researchers and programmers, Nym Technologies built the Nym Protocol, an open-source, decentralized, permissionless and incentivized system that provides full-stack privacy. This allows developers to buil...
Feb 1, 2020	Zcash's Funding Vote and the Woes of Decentralized Governance	The zcash community has agreed to continue funding the development of its privacy coin, ZEC, as spearheaded by the Electric Coin Company (ECC) and the Zcash Foundation, according to voting results published by the foundation Thursday. The d...
Nov 7, 2019	Zcash Trademark Talks Were About More Than a Logo	Electric Coin Company (ECC), the firm led by zcash creator Zooko Wilcox, officially shared the zcash trademark with the Zcash Foundation (ZF) on Wednesday. Sources with knowledge of the trademark negotiations told CoinDesk talks were more c...
Sep 14, 2019	You Can Now Prove a Whole Blockchain With One Math Problem – Really	The Electric Coin Company (ECC) says it discovered a new way to scale blockchains with “recursive proof composition," a proof to verify the entirety of a blockchain in one function. For the ECC and zcash, the new project, Halo, may hol...
Aug 30, 2019	Zcash Developer Electric Coin Co. Reveals Q1 Financial Loss	The Electric Coin Company (ECC), the for-profit company that supports the development of the zcash cryptocurrency has issued its Q3 transparency report, revealing it has so far avoided layoffs during the bear market despite financial losses...
Jul 18, 2019	Privacy Cryptocurrency Zcash Prepares for 'Friendly' Fork	In about five hours, the privacy-oriented cryptocurrency Zcash will spawn a new blockchain network called Ycash. It’ll be the first of its kind to boast a near-identical codebase to the Zcash blockchain but function as a separate network an...
Jun 11, 2019	Ex-Employee Sues Startup Behind Zcash for $2 Million Over Unpaid Stock	A former employee, Simon Liu, is suing the Zerocoin Electric Coin Company for $2 million over unpaid shares, breach of contact, and damages, according to court documents filed on May 29. Zerocoin is the organization behind the popular crypt...
	Zcash Surges 14% in Unexpected Twist, Here Are Reasons	Electric Coin, which is the issuer of the self-titled privacy-protecting cryptocurrency Zcash, published a press release on the occasion of the sanctions imposed by the U.S. Treasury on another popular service for the anonymization of crypt...

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FAQ about Electric Coin Company

When was Electric Coin Company founded?

Electric Coin Company was founded in 2016.

What has the press written about Electric Coin Company?

Parsers VC has collected 24 articles mentioning Electric Coin Company, among them “Cypherpunk Technologies: $5 Million Investment In Zcash Open Development Lab To Advance Privacy Infrastructure” (Mar 9, 2026) and “Zcash’s NU5 Upgrade Goes Live, Boosting Privacy and Removing ‘Trusted Setups’” (May 31, 2022).

Is Electric Coin Company still active?

Yes, Electric Coin Company is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Mar 9, 2026.