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Seen our new website? We designed it for you!
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The last couple of weeks have been packed with activity at the Zcash Foundation. We finished redesigning the Foundation's new website, with the goal of providing a more intuitive and user-friendly experience that clearly indicates who we are, what we stand for, and what we aim to achieve.
We also launched the Zcash Grants Hub - a one-stop-shop for Zcash Community Grants, Zcash Foundation Grants as well as future community funding programs. The new grants hub offers improved functionality compared to the old grants platform, enabling community members to apply to a variety of funding programs that will become available during 2022.
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We finalized our 2021 quarterly reporting
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As part of our commitment to transparency, the Zcash Foundation finalized its quarterly reporting for the year 2021 by publishing its Q4 transparency report which can be found here.
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Zebra beta.6 adds RPC support
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We released Zebra beta.6 which adds RPC server support, including some of the RPC calls needed to become a lightwalletd back end. This is a huge milestone for Zebra engineers as it brings Zebra one step closer to executing transactions.
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We released v03 of the FROST IETF draft specification
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In the v03 FROST spec, collaborators including Zcash Foundation members worked on:
- Refactoring the second round to use state from the first round (#94).
- Ensuring that verification of signature shares from the second round uses commitments from the first round (#94).
- Clarifying RFC8032 interoperability based on PureEdDSA (#86).
- Specifying signature serialization based on element and scalar serialization (#85).
- Fixing hash function domain separation formatting (#83).
- Making trusted dealer key generation deterministic (#104).
- Adding additional constraints on participant indexes and nonce usage (#105, #103, #98, #97).
- Applying various editorial improvements.
- We also updated our frost-ristretto255 implementation to be v03 compatible
Progress on the IETF draft specification can be tracked here.
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A rebrand, backed with a new website!
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The Zcash Community Grants Committee launched its new website after rebranding from Zcash Open Major Grants. An explanation by the committee on the rebrand can be found here.
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Global Ambassadors Program
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The committee also launched a Global Ambassadors Program which aims to identify community members who make high-quality contributions to the Zcash community, empowering them to become leaders within the ecosystem. Learn more about it here.
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The Zcash Community Grants Committee also approved a grant by 37 Laines to create high-quality educational videos about Zcash - which they will distribute through various channels using the Zcash Media brand. Grant details can be found here.
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Zcash Blockchain Infrastructure (ZBI)
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In March, Alphega solutions, the team behind the Zcash Blockchain Infrastructure grant (ZBI), launched a series of articles focusing on their grant’s progress. In the first article, they presented a detailed overview of ZBI and provided an outline of the development and implementation process. In their second article, they presented a detailed ZBI architecture. Both articles can be found below:
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The Tor team recently reached its 0.1.0 milestone for Arti, whereby Arti's high-level APIs are now considered to be "mostly stable", and ready for experimental embedding in other projects. Learn more about this update here.
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Twitter Space with Tor and Zcash Community Grants
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The Zcash Foundation together with the Zcash Community Grants Committee hosted a Twitter Space with Tor to discuss the Arti grant with Zcash and Tor community members. You can listen to a recording of the space here.
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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.
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