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The Zcash Foundation is a public charity that awards grant funding to Zcash ecosystem projects that advance their mission of building and supporting privacy tools for everyone and anyone, both serving and guided by the Zcash Community. They are currently focusing their efforts on two key programs: Zebra and FROST.
Zebra is an alternative implementation of a Zcash node that aims to be faster and lighter than the existing implementation. FROST is a threshold signature scheme that allows for secure key management without a single point of failure.
The Zcash Foundation also has a grant program called ZF Grants which awards grant funding to Zcash ecosystem projects that advance their mission as a public charity.
However, if you have any questions about their work or the Zcash ecosystem as a whole, you can email them at [email protected].
Zebra is an alternative implementation of a Zcash node that aims to be faster and lighter than the existing implementation. FROST is a threshold signature scheme that allows for secure key management without a single point of failure.
The Zcash Foundation also has a grant program called ZF Grants which awards grant funding to Zcash ecosystem projects that advance their mission as a public charity.
However, if you have any questions about their work or the Zcash ecosystem as a whole, you can email them at [email protected].
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Founded date
2017
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| Jul 27, 2026 | Zcash Ironwood Launches Tuesday: Supply-Verification Checkpoint Closes Four-Year Flaw | By Daniel Butler Published: Jul 27 2026, 4:11 PM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard |
| Jul 10, 2026 | Zcash Locks July 28 Ironwood Launch as Formal Counterfeiting Proof Nears | By Joshua Mitchell Published: Jul 10 2026, 5:06 PM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard |
| Jun 5, 2026 | Why is Crypto Crashing: AI-Assisted Audit Exposes Four-Year Zcash Orchard Bug, ZEC Plummets 31% | By Scott McCain Published: Jun 05 2026, 06:39 AM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| May 7, 2020 | The CoinDesk 50 | NOTE: THIS IS A SELECTION BY STAFF AT COINDESK. IT IS A LIST, NOT A RANKING. NUMBERING THE ENTRIES IMPLIES NO HIERARCHY. Eleven years ago, Bitcoin emerged in a white paper by Satoshi Nakamoto and changed the world. Bitcoin led to Ethereum, ... |
| Apr 14, 2020 | For Contact Tracing to Work, Americans Will Have to Trust Google and Apple | Last weekend, Google and Apple announced a partnership to enable Bluetooth contact tracing to fight coronavirus. Contact tracing is the process of identifying carriers of coronavirus, and whom they’ve come into contact with, so they can qua... |
| Mar 29, 2020 | Test and trace with Apple and Google | After the shutdown, the testing and tracing. “Trace, test and treat is the mantra … no lockdowns, no roadblocks and no restriction on movement” in South Korea. “To suppress and control the epidemic, countries must isolate, test, treat and t... |
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