Advancing Digital Privacy
The Zcash Foundation is a 501(c)(3) public charity building financial privacy infrastructure for the public good, primarily serving users of the Zcash protocol and blockchain.
Our Mission
To help sustain and improve open financial networks that allow anyone and everyone to protect their own privacy, on their own terms. While our primary focus is the Zcash protocol and blockchain, we also support broader applications of zero-knowledge proofs, as well as other approaches to financial privacy.
Powering Zcash
What We Build
Zebra
Zebra is the Foundation’s independent, consensus-compatible implementation of a Zcash node, currently under development. Zebra can be used to join the Zcash peer-to-peer network, which helps keep Zcash working by validating and broadcasting transactions, and maintaining the Zcash blockchain state in a distributed manner.
FROST is a Flexible Round-Optimized Schnorr Threshold signature scheme designed to reduce the interaction between participants who jointly own a private signing key and wish to use this private key to sign a message. Recognized by industry leaders including Coinbase, FROST is a proposed IETF standard, on the path to adoption and standardization. ZF FROST is a reference implementation of FROST two-round threshold Schnorr signatures, written in Rust.
Events We Facilitate
We facilitate a variety of events designed to support collaboration, innovation, and education across the Zcash ecosystem.
Zcon
Zcon is the annual conference that focuses on privacy-preserving technologies and the broader Zcash community.
Zcash Dev Summits
Provide developers with opportunities for informal collaboration and networking.
Zcon Voices
Supports local initiatives to bring financial privacy to underserved communities.
Zcash Arborist Calls
Bi-weekly protocol development meetings focused on tracking upcoming protocol deployment logistics, consensus node implementation issues, and protocol research.