Empower people with economic freedom

Electric Coin Co. builds and supports technology to provide people with access to a fair and open currency — regardless of location or demographic.

Zcash

ECC launched Zcash — a privacy-protecting, digital currency built on vanguard science — in 2016, and we continue to support the technology, along with others.

Our vision for Zcash is that it will provide equal access to economic systems and give everyone the ability to participate in economic activity.

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ECC Blog

Gemini becomes first regulated institution to support shielded Zcash withdrawals

Gemini Trust Company (Gemini) announced today that account holders now have the ability to withdraw to shielded Zcash addresses. Gemini is the first regulated institution to announce shielded address support, and it added this capability after receiving approval from the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS).

Gemini becomes first regulated institution to support shielded Zcash withdrawals

ECC welcomes the Major Grants Review Committee

Last Friday, the Zcash community elected five members out of nineteen candidates to the inaugural Major Grants Review Committee. The Zcash Foundation managed the election and 97.8% of the Zcash Community Advisory Panel participated in the vote.

ECC welcomes the Major Grants Review Committee

Refining and recommitting to the ECC mission

Our mission is to empower people with economic freedom.  To that end, we build and support Zcash to provide everyone […]

Refining and recommitting to the ECC mission

FATF’s plans to regulate peer-to-peer transactions

ECC believes that well-informed and -educated policy-makers and regulators produce better regulation. To that end, we engage with policy-makers and […]

FATF’s plans to regulate peer-to-peer transactions

Canopy security assessment complete

Electric Coin Co. once again engaged the cryptography group at NCC, this time to review our upcoming Canopy (NU4) network […]

Canopy security assessment complete

Introducing TGPPL, a radically new type of open-source license

Electric Coin Co. is spearheading a new type of open-source license, one that enables anyone to commercially support and improve […]

Introducing TGPPL, a radically new type of open-source license

New Release: 4.0.0

Network Upgrade 4: Canopy The 4.0.0 release supports the Canopy activation on mainnet, which will occur at a block height […]

New Release: 4.0.0

Explaining Halo 2

Last year, our team announced a collection of discoveries and research milestones as part of our Scalability 2021 mission for […]

Explaining Halo 2

ECC releases code for Halo 2

Electric Coin Co. (ECC) today opened the source code we are developing for Halo 2, an updated, more efficient version […]

ECC releases code for Halo 2

Founded by preeminent cypherpunks, mathematicians and engineers, ECC has earned a reputation for quality work, regular releases, integrity and a commitment to community.

Meet the team

Founded by preeminent cypherpunks, mathematicians and engineers, ECC has earned a reputation for quality work, regular releases, integrity and a commitment to community.

Meet the team