The Zcash cryptocurrency was developed and is stewarded by the Electric Coin Company (ECC), which was founded in 2015 by Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn and was originally named the Zcash Company. Launched in 2016, Zcash is a decentralized, open-source cryptocurrency focused on providing enhanced privacy and anonymity for its users. Its core mission is to empower everyone with economic freedom and opportunity. Zcash achieves this through its pioneering use of zk-SNARKs, a form of zero-knowledge cryptography that allows transactions to be verified without revealing any sensitive information about the sender, receiver, or amount transacted. ECC focuses on the core research and development of the Zcash protocol and related products, like the Zcashd client and ECC wallets.

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United States