Privacy is the soul of crypto, and without it, nothing else we’re doing really matters.

If you care about financial sovereignty, you need privacy. If you care about coordinating with others to effect social change, or thinking freely, or building a more prosperous society, you need the free exchange of value. Freedom begins with privacy.

As engineers and scientists working on Zcash, we have spent years developing private financial tools that will be embedded into the future of civilization. It is no exaggeration to say that our descendants will either live in a world that rests upon the foundations that we are building today, or else live in a world that we neglected.

Zcash was the first cryptocurrency to ship real, strong privacy with zero-knowledge proofs. Solving the privacy problem with cryptography was only the first step: we needed to quickly iterate and improve our........

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