Etu esi ahazi Zcash
TL;DR
- Zcash abụghị nke otu ụlọ ọrụ wuru, ọ bụ ọtụtụ ndị nweere onwe ha na-arụ ya onye ọbụla nwere akụkụ dị iche n'ọrụ ahụ.
- For most of its history two organizations led development, the Electric Coin Company and the Zcash Foundation
- Na Jenụwarị 2026, ndị otu ụlọ ọrụ Electric Coin Company niile gbara arụkwaghịm mgbe esemokwu ọchịchị gasịrị, na usoro okike ahụ haziri n'ime ọtụtụ ìgwè dị iche iche nọọrọ onwe ha.
- Taa, usoro ahụike, ngwanrọ nke ọnụ ọgụgụ, obere akpa ego, nyocha, ịba ụba na itinye ego bụ ndị otu dị iche iche na-ejikwa ya.
- Enweghị otu nzukọ na-achịkwa Zcash, netwọkụ ahụ bụ isi mmalite ma enweghị ikike, ọ gara n'ihu na-agba ọsọ nke ọma site na mgbanwe niile.
Onye ka nke a bụ maka ya?
- Ndị bịara ọhụrụ na-agbalị ịghọta onye n'ezie wuru ma debe Zcash
- Onye ọbụla nwere mgbagwoju anya site n'ọtụtụ aha nzukọ na gburugburu ebe obibi.
- Ndị na-enye onyinye n'ịhọrọ onye ha ga-arụ ọrụ maọbụ ebe a ga-eziga atụmatụ.
Ihe mere nke a ji dị mkpa
Understanding the structure makes everything else easier. It tells you who maintains the code you rely on, who to approach for a grant, and who is responsible for the part of the network you care about. It also reveals one of Zcash's quiet strengths: because the work is spread across independent groups, no single point of failure can capture or stall the project.
Peeji a bụ map. Maka nzukọ ọbụla nwere peeji zuru ezu na wiki, ị ga-ahụ obere ihe edeturu ma jikọta ya ka ịgụkwu karịa ikwughachi ihe e dere ebe ahụ.
Otú o si arụ ọrụ n'oge gara aga .
N'ihe ka ukwuu n'akụkọ ihe mere eme nke Zcash, òtù abụọ duziri ụzọ.
The Electric Coin Company launched Zcash in 2016 and employed much of the core development team. It was overseen by Bootstrap, a nonprofit board created to support Zcash. The Zcash Foundation worked alongside it as an independent nonprofit, focused on stewardship of the protocol and on building an independent node. Both were funded largely by a portion of the block reward set aside for development.
This two-pillar structure held for years, but it depended on that shared funding and on the two organizations staying aligned. As the original development funding evolved and its long term future became less certain, the question of how to pay for ongoing work grew more pressing. That funding question sits in the background of much of what changed next, and it is part of why some teams now raise outside capital while others rely on grants.
Nhazi nke 2026
In January 2026 the structure changed sharply. On January 7, Electric Coin Company chief executive Josh Swihart announced on X that the entire company team had resigned.
Bootstrap was a nonprofit created in 2020 to govern the Electric Coin Company, which had become a wholly owned subsidiary of it. The disagreement between the company team and this board built up over time and touched several issues, including the direction of the organization, how development should be funded, and the future of the Zashi wallet, which the team wanted to move into a private company to raise outside capital. Swihart described the departure as a constructive discharge, a legal term meaning conditions were changed so severely that resignation was effectively forced, and said a majority of the board had moved out of alignment with Zcash's mission.
The other side of the account matters for fairness. Bootstrap framed the conflict as a matter of governance and nonprofit legal compliance. Zcash's founder, Zooko Wilcox, publicly defended the board members named in the dispute, saying he had worked with them for many years and regarded them as people of high integrity, while making clear he was not taking a side on the disagreement itself.
Two things were not in dispute. No party alleged any criminal conduct, so this was a corporate and governance disagreement rather than a legal case. And the Zcash network itself was unaffected, it stayed open source, permissionless, secure, and fully operational throughout, a point both Swihart and Wilcox stressed to users.
Ihe sochiri bụ nhazi ọzọ kama ịda. Ndị otu ụlọ ọrụ mbụ gara n'ihu na-etolite ZODL mgbe e mesịrị na 2026, ma kewapụ mmadụ atọ ndị isi oche Bootstrap guzobere Sovright. Mmepe biri n'ụdị a kesara karịa ọtụtụ ìgwè dị iche iche nọọrọ onwe ha.
Nkwupụta ndị a kọwara ebe a bụ nke Josh Swihart (@jswihart) na Zooko Wilcox (@zooko), mere n'ihu ọha na X na Jenụwarị 7, 2026, ebe enwere ike ịgụ ọkwa mbụ ahụ.
Onye na-ewu Zcash ugbu a?
Ọrụ taa gbasaa n'etiti òtù ndị nweere onwe ha, nke ọ bụla nwere akụkụ doro anya.
Òtù abụọ ahụ sitere na 2026 kewara.
- ZODL, the Zcash Open Development Lab, was formed by the former Electric Coin Company team and led by Josh Swihart. It raised more than twenty five million dollars from outside investors and works on core protocol development, including the Halo 2 proving system that powers Zcash's newest shielded transactions, and on the ZODL wallet, a shielded by default mobile wallet formerly called Zashi. See ZODL.
- Sovright bụ otu na-enweghị uru nke ndị atọ gara aga Bootstrap board members. Ọ lekwasịrị anya na ngwaọrụ na nkwado maka usoro okike, ma wuo Argos, ngwá ọrụ iji nyere ndị mbụ aka weghachite ego a tọrọ n'ime obere akpa ochie, enweghị nlekọta. Lee Sovright.
Nlekọta usoro, nyocha na sọftụwia node.
- Zcash Foundation na-ejide Zebra, Rust node nke ghọrọ netwọkụ isi mgbe onye ahịa zcashd ochie lara ezumike nká. Ọ na - elekọtakwa nzukọ Zcash GitHub, ebe nrụọrụ weebụ z.cash, yana akaụntụ Zcash bụ isi na X, ma soro ndị mmekọ ZecHub nyere aka jikwaa ụfọdụ akụ ahụ Lee . Zcash Foundation.
- Shielded Labs is an independent, donation-funded nonprofit based in Switzerland. It focuses on research and long term sustainability, including the network sustainability mechanism that funds future development and the Crosslink work on adding proof of stake finality to Zcash, and it funded the security audit that discovered the Orchard pool vulnerability in 2026. See Ụlọ nyocha echekwara.
- Ụlọ ọrụ Electric Coin Company na-anọgide bụrụ akụkụ nke akụkọ ihe mere eme dịka nzukọ kere ma malite Zcash n'afọ 2016. Lee. Electric Coin Company.
Ịdị elu na cryptography
- Project Tachyon is a scaling effort led by cryptographer Sean Bowe. It proposes a new way for wallets to sync with the blockchain, called oblivious synchronization, that shrinks transactions and, as a side effect, moves Zcash toward post-quantum privacy. Its work is documented at tachyon.z.cash (ego).
- The Valar Group is a cryptography research and engineering lab working on the Zcash protocol for private, post-quantum digital cash at scale. It collaborates closely with Project Tachyon on the scaling and quantum work. More on its work is at valargroup.dev (n'asụsụ Bekee).
Òtù ndị dị n'ógbè na nke obodo
- Obscura Labs is an independent organization registered in Nigeria, focused on Africa and emerging markets, building infrastructure and adoption pathways. See Obscura Labs.
Agụmakwụkwọ
- ZecHub is a decentralized education hub for Zcash. Community members work together to create, validate, and promote content that helps people understand the ecosystem and learn how to participate, through tutorials, wiki documentation, a podcast, and a weekly newsletter. The wiki you are reading now is part of ZecHub, and the Zcash Foundation partners with it to help manage some community resources.
Ego e ji akwado ya
- Zcash Community Grants funds independent contributors and community projects from a portion of the block reward, spreading work across many teams beyond the core organizations. See Onyinye Community Zcash.
- Ụlọ ọrụ Financial Privacy Foundation na-akwado usoro okike Zcash yana oru obodo. Lee Ụlọ Ọrụ Nzuzo Ego.
All of these organizations maintain open source repositories, so their work can be read, checked, and built on by anyone. And the organizations are not the whole story. Many significant contributions come from individuals and from contracted companies funded through grants, rather than from the core organizations alone. Alongside them sit wallet teams, regional communities, independent developers, and investors who hold and support ZEC without building the protocol. The list above is the backbone, not the full picture.
Ebe ị ga-amalite dị ka onye ọhụrụ bịara abịa
Òtù nke dị gị mkpa na-adabere n'ihe ị chọrọ ime.
- Iji jiri Zcash, ị chọrọ obere akpa ego, yabụ ZODL na obere akpa ya bụ mmalite ebido.
- Iji gbaa node ma ọ bụ ghọta ngwanrọ netwọkụ, lee anya na Zcash Foundation yana Zebra Node ya.
- Iji kwado oru ma ọ bụ inye aka na ọrụ akwụ ụgwọ, lee anya Zcash Community Grants.
- Iji soro nyocha na ọdịnihu nke usoro ahụ, sochie Shielded Labs, Project Tachyon, and the Valar Group.
Nọgide na - amụ ihe .
Wiki a dị iji nyere gị aka ịga n'ihu, yabụ nzọụkwụ kachasị mma bụ ịnọgide na-agụ ya. Isiokwu ole na ole ndị ọzọ maka onye ọhụrụ:
Peeji nke ọ bụla nwere njikọ gaa n'ebe ndị ọzọ, ya mere i nwere ike ịgbaso isiokwu ahụ ruo ebe ị chọrọ.
Ihe ndị mmadụ na-ekwukarị nke bụ́ eziokwu.
- Zcash abụghị nke ụlọ ọrụ ọ bụla nwere maọbụ na-achịkwa ya, enweghị otu nzukọ ga - agbanwe ma ọ bụ kwụsị netwọkụ ahụ n'onwe ya.
- Esemokwu 2026 emetụtaghị netwọkụ, ego ma ọ bụ nzuzo. Ọ bụ esemokwu nhazi na usoro ahụ gara n'ihu dịka o kwesịrị site na mgbe niile ruo ugbu a.
- Ndị otu ahụ hapụrụ ụlọ ọrụ Electric Coin Company akwụsịghị Zcash, a na-agagharị ọrụ ya gaa n'ụlọọrụ ọhụrụ nọọrọ onwe ha.
- Inwe ọtụtụ òtù bụ ike, ọ bụghị adịghị ike, na-ewepụ otu isi nke ọdịda ma na-eme ka ọrụ ahụ dịgide adịgide.
- Ijide ma ọ bụ ịkwalite ZEC abụghị otu ihe ahụ dị ka iwulite Zcash, ndị na-etinye ego na ndị nkwusa ozioma so n'obodo mana ha dị iche site na ìgwè ndị mepụtara usoro a.
Peeji ndị metụtara ya
