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Zcash Foundation is a 501(c)(3) public charity that builds financial-privacy infrastructure for the public good, primarily serving users of the Zcash protocol and blockchain. It develops Zcash node and cryptography software, supports privacy technologies, and facilitates community events and grants.
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12 current maintainers9 active leads6 new active leads5 lead step-downs1 lead movement4 early lead departures

Maintainer signals as of Aug 10, 2026


FROST For Zcash


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FROST for Zcash combines the standardized Flexible Round-Optimized Schnorr Threshold signature scheme with ZF FROST, the Foundation’s Rust reference implementation and integration tooling for privacy-preserving threshold signatures in Zcash.

Category: Developer Tooling

Zebra


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Developed by the Zcash Foundation, Zebra is a modern, modular Zcash node built from scratch in memory-safe Rust. It implements the same protocol as zcashd, can join the Zcash peer-to-peer network, and helps strengthen network resilience by validating and broadcasting transactions and maintaining blockchain state. As an alternative node implementation, it helps detect implementation-specific consensus issues and provides a path for Rust developers to develop for and contribute to Zcash.

Category: Node Software

Shielded Aid Initiative


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The Shielded Aid Initiative collaborates with humanitarian organizations to apply Zcash privacy technology to safer digital aid delivery.