Tagged: zcash

November 9, 2025 @ 3:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In August 2025, digital assets platform Gemini claims that it became the first major crypto exchange to support Zcash unified addresses. Now, the Gemini exchange is taking the next step by enabling complete support for Orchard, which is described as Zcash‘s most advanced privacy protocol…. Read More

November 3, 2025 @ 3:55 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Electric Coin Co. (ECC), the company that launched Zcash (ZEC) and maintains the Zashi wallet, recently shared its roadmap for Q4 of this year, following a significant increase in the privacy-focused cryptocurrency’s shielded supply and market price. ECC’s latest roadmap includes on a focus on… Read More

October 29, 2025 @ 12:33 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Zcash (ZEC) has emerged as a standout digital currency recently in the Bitcoin and crypto markets, posting considerable gains and outperforming many leading virtual currencies in recent weeks. As a privacy-focused digital asset, Zcash has seemingly captured the attention of investors and enthusiasts alike, driven… Read More

August 6, 2025 @ 9:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In a significant move for cryptocurrency privacy, Gemini, the US-regulated cryptocurrency exchange founded by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, has announced support for Zcash unified addresses, solidifying its commitment to user privacy within a compliant framework. This update, detailed in a recent Gemini blog post, marks… Read More

June 23, 2023 @ 11:24 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Monero’s encryption tech, which makes use of signatures from several different users to conceal who has carried out a monetary transfer, has reportedly not been hacked by any nation (at least it has not been widely reported). As reported by Fast Company, analysts with the… Read More

December 26, 2021 @ 11:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Zcash, a cryptocurrency focused on privacy and anonymity, is currently available to trade on Okcoin – “with some of the lowest fees around.” Customers are able to “deposit, withdraw, and trade ZEC against USD on Okcoin.” All Okcoin clients may perform transactions with Zcash including… Read More

October 18, 2021 @ 9:49 am By JD Alois  |  

Digital asset manager Grayscale now has 9 publicly traded crypto products with the addition of Grayscale Zcash Trust, Grayscale Stellar Lumens Trust, and Grayscale Horizen Trust now trading on OTC Markets (OTCQX Best Market). The trading symbols for these vehicles are ZCSH, GXLM, and HZEN,… Read More

October 22, 2020 @ 8:03 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Anchorage, a company that aims to help institutional investors with adopting digital assets, has teamed up with Tokensoft to bring wrapped layer-one crypto-assets to the Ethereum (ETH) blockchain. Diogo Mónica, Co-Founder and President at Anchorage, explained that his organization will work with Tokensoft to offer… Read More

July 26, 2020 @ 1:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Electric Coin Company (ECC), which supports the development of Zcash (ZEC), a privacy-oriented cryptocurrency, recently revealed that Liquid will be delisting ZEC along with 28 other digital currencies or tokens because the Japanese crypto trading platform is planning to apply for a license to… Read More

June 30, 2020 @ 10:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) and other cryptographic techniques for enhancing privacy on blockchain networks are still in their early stages of development, according to the central bank of Canada. The reserve bank said that ZKPs may not be integrated into central bank digital currencies (CBDC) just… Read More

May 7, 2020 @ 11:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A recent report from Rand (Research And Development) Corporation, an American non-profit global policy think tank that’s funded by the US government (and private endowment corporations, universities, and private individuals), claims that Bitcoin (BTC), the flagship cryptocurrency, is being used to carry out a relatively… Read More

February 14, 2020 @ 9:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The developers of the Suterusu protocol are presently working on a scalable, privacy-preserving second layer solution for secure digital asset management. Any crypto-asset, including Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH), may soon be used to conduct fully anonymous transactions using the Suterusu protocol. Suterusu’s technology, ZK-ConSNARK,… Read More

February 1, 2020 @ 11:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Grayscale Investments, a subsidiary of Barry Silbert’s Digital Currency Group (DCG) and the largest institutional holder of Bitcoin (BTC), recently published its educational report, titled Grayscale Building Blocks: An Introduction to Horizen. The firm’s report covers Horizen, which offers a “privacy-preserving” digital currency and decentralized… Read More

September 21, 2019 @ 11:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

South Korean digital asset exchange Upbit announced on September 20 that it will delist several privacy-oriented cryptocurrencies including Monero (XMR), Dash (DASH), and ZCash (ZEC). Upbit’s management noted in a blog post that it would also cease trading for PIVX, a privacy-focused proof-of-stake (PoS) currency… Read More

September 16, 2019 @ 8:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The South Korean arm of Malta-based digital asset exchange OKEx announced that it will no longer support five major cryptocurrencies due to new international financial regulations. OKEx Korea’s management noted that it would suspend trading for privacy-oriented digital currencies including Monero (XMR), Zcash (ZEC), and… Read More

August 12, 2019 @ 5:54 pm By Cali Haan  |  

The UK division of US-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has sent letters to customers telling them to convert their ZCash coins or remove their balances by August 26th, Coindesk reports. Balances not relocated will be converted to British pounds. ZCash is a so-called “privacy coin” that… Read More

June 12, 2019 @ 2:33 am By Cali Haan  |  

A former Senior Software Engineer at Zerocoin Electric Coin Company, the company behind “privacy coin” cryptocurrency ZCash, is suing his former employer for $2 million USD plus costs. Plaintiff Simon Liu alleges in court documents that Zerocoin failed to ever turn over 15 000 Zerocoin… Read More

February 21, 2019 @ 8:13 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase recently announced the launch of its Coinbase Earn Page, which allows users to earn Zcash (ZEC). According to Coinbase, Zcash is a cryptocurrency that uses recent advances in cryptography to give users the option to protect their financial privacy when transacting with cryptocurrency. Zcash does this… Read More

January 24, 2019 @ 2:32 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Global investment platform, eToro, announced on Thursday it has added  ZCash (ZEC) to its product range. eToro reported that ZEC is the fourteenth crypto asset to accepted on its platform. According to eToro, ZEC is a decentralised payments network, designed to offer users greater privacy options,… Read More

December 4, 2018 @ 2:15 pm By Cali Haan  |  

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Department is seeking proposals from contractors skilled in blockchain forensics, data analysis, and information sharing. More specifically, the DHS/SBIR is satisfied with its ability to investigate transactions on the Bitcoin blockchain but seeks to be able… Read More