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

• Expanding Membership to the Zcash Community 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.
• The Zcash Foundation's 2020 Q2 Report

  July 02, 2020 What we’ve been working on during the half of the year.
• Foundation DNS Seeders Are Live

  June 15, 2020 The Foundation has developed a new DNS seeder to decentralize the network’s on-ramp.
• The Zcash Foundation Welcomes Jane and Teor

  June 03, 2020 Our engineering team grows to accelerate our roadmap.
• So You Want to Build an End-to-End Encrypted Web App

  June 03, 2020 The software security model of the web does not lend itself to long term identities, but are they necessary?
• 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.