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US-based 501(c)(3) public charity that builds financial privacy infrastructure for the public good, with a special focus on the Zcash protocol and blockchain.
Joined February 2017
🔥 ZCAP voters didn’t just turn out—they made history with the most votes ever cast! Election results available 👇
forum.zcashcommunity.com
This December 2025 ZCG election has officially concluded! In total, 145 members (79%) of ZCAP cast their ballots in this election to fill the vacant seats held by @Aquietinvestor, @Zerodartz, and...
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Now available: Zebra 3.1.0 🎉 This release strengthens Docker support on ARM64/AMD64, cleans up the mempool with dust filtering, and enhances RPC flexibility for monitoring and tooling. Run a fast, modern Zcash node in Rust and be part of the zcashd deprecation push!
zfnd.org
The Zcash Foundation is pleased to announce the release of Zebra 3.1.0. Hot on the heels of the Zebra 3.0.0 release, Zebra 3.1.0 is a stability and infrastructure-focused release that improves Docker...
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⏰ Final hours to cast your ballot!
🗳️ Your vote matters! Choose your candidates before voting closes on December 18th at 20:00 UTC. 🗳️ ZCG Elections are live for ZCAP! ✅ Watch the Community Call ✅ Check your email inbox for a ballot ✅ Cast your vote Details available here👇 https://t.co/O3QCw0rlDp
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Today, we’re thrilled to confirm the dates and locations for our 2026 events. Mark your calendars and start making plans to join us! 🎉 https://t.co/6LH7YFWkdo
zfnd.org
In August, we shared our 3-year vision for community events, a roadmap designed to support learning, collaboration, and innovation across the global Zcash community. Today, we’re thrilled to confirm...
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Alex Bornstein, our Executive Director, lays out a powerful blueprint for rebuilding digital freedom in an age of surveillance and financial control: "We must stop imagining privacy as secrecy and start understanding it as the construct for safety." https://t.co/VxZ4eBgzSt
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By the time we realize how much data we’ve given away, the door to reclaiming it has often closed. Financial privacy isn't being confiscated through dramatic legal changes; it’s slipping from our...
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Our most recent bi-weekly Engineering update just shipped! Dig into the latest progress on Zebra, FROST, and more—plus what the team is hacking on next!
forum.zcashcommunity.com
These past 2 weeks we’ve been wrapping up the things we were currently working on so we could start with Hackmas. In Zebra news, the observability infrastructure for local development received a...
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Today, ZF Board Member @theblockprof "dropped a legal bombshell: He can't find statutory basis for SEC jurisdiction over AML/KYC for tokenized equity living in DeFi. Federal securities laws reference regulated parties—broker-dealers, exchanges—not permissionless protocols."
More highlights from the @SECGov Crypto Task Force Roundtable on Financial Privacy & Surveillance Three powerful voices made the case for privacy in crypto at the SEC's roundtable: J.W. Verret @theblockprof (George Mason Law) dropped a legal bombshell: He can't find statutory
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Zooko Wilcox @zooko —founder of @ElectricCoinCo (the company that launched Zcash) and now Chief Product Officer at @ShieldedLabs today at the @SECGov's Crypto Task Force roundtable on financial surveillance and privacy. Key highlights: On Zcash: Wilcox described it as
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Check out the latest @Zcash Protocol R&D updates from the most recent Arborist Call #115 hosted by the @ZcashFoundation Summary + Clips: 🔸 https://t.co/EaJVkNW3oZ Recording: 🔸 https://t.co/6YZxiZ9m54
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🗳️ Your vote matters! Choose your candidates before voting closes on December 18th at 20:00 UTC. 🗳️ ZCG Elections are live for ZCAP! ✅ Watch the Community Call ✅ Check your email inbox for a ballot ✅ Cast your vote Details available here👇 https://t.co/O3QCw0rlDp
forum.zcashcommunity.com
ZCAP SIV Poll - ZCG Elections - Open Now! Last month, with @aquietinvestor @zerodartz and @artkor’s terms ending on December 31st, FPF opened nominations for the vacant seats. 17 candidates are...
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🚀 The recording of today's Zcash Arborist Call is now available! These bi-weekly protocol development meetings track upcoming protocol deployment logistics, consensus node implementation issues, and protocol research.
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Traditional KYC is a honeypot by design "Prove you're over 18" → stores your exact birthday "Prove your identity" → stores your passport photo "Prove you're real" → stores biometric templates Every database is a breach waiting to happen There's a better way 🧵
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Alex Bornstein, our Executive Director, makes the case that financial privacy is a human rights safeguard in a cashless world—and that privacy and compliance can coexist without accepting surveillance as the price of modernity. https://t.co/zmncmhwnYL
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🗳️ ZCG Elections are live for ZCAP! ✅ Watch the Community Call ✅ Check your email inbox for a ballot ✅ Cast your vote 🕗 Voting closes Dec. 18th at 20:00 UTC Details available here👇 https://t.co/O3QCw0rlDp
forum.zcashcommunity.com
ZCAP SIV Poll - ZCG Elections - Open Now! Last month, with @aquietinvestor @zerodartz and @artkor’s terms ending on December 31st, FPF opened nominations for the vacant seats. 17 candidates are...
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In this compelling new three-part series, Alex Bornstein, ZF's Executive Director, exposes how financial surveillance is quietly stripping away our autonomy, and why this matters far more than you think. https://t.co/arF4gXTDn5
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🎉 Celebrating activation of NU 6.1, which brings bold ecosystem funding changes to Zcash by launching a retroactive coinholder-driven grants program and empowering community governance for transparent, sustainable blockchain innovation.
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We are pleased to announce this audit was favorable, and that we have addressed all of the suggestions in our 3.0.0 NU6.1 stable release.
zfnd.org
During Q3 2025, Least Authority (in their role as the Zcash Ecosystem Security Lead) undertook an audit of the changes implemented in Zebra in order to support the NU6.1 Zcash network upgrade. We are...
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Our team recently completed a security audit of Zebra's NU6.1 Network Upgrade for @ZcashFoundation. You can read the full report, including our findings, here: https://t.co/9ynP1VGLUA
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@SolanaInstitute With the right administrative steps, the U.S. will lead the next wave of crypto innovation. Read the full letter:
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Zcash Foundation is proud to stand with @SolanaInstitute and 65+ coalition partners encouraging the Trump Administration to take action that protects developers, supports innovation, and provides regulatory clarity.
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