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<H1>[ZcF-general] Zcash Foundation Monthly Update &#8212; May, 2019</H1>
<B>Sonya Mann</B>
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<I>Sat Jun 1 01:21:37 EDT 2019</I>
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<PRE>Hello friends! Another month, another rundown of Zcash Foundation
activities. Spoiler: The most exciting announcements are at the end.
5/9
Coda and Dekrypt Capital announced the SNARK Challenge, sponsored by the
Zcash Foundation and a few other organizations:
<A HREF="https://coinlist.co/build/coda">https://coinlist.co/build/coda</A>
&quot;A global competition to speed up the SNARK prover,&quot; with more than $100k
in the prize pool.
Coda CTO Izaak Meckler made a video about the SNARK Challenge:
<A HREF="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81uR9W5PZ5M">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81uR9W5PZ5M</A>
5/9
The second installment of the Human Rights Foundation's series on privacy
and cryptocurrency was published:
<A HREF="https://medium.com/human-rights-foundation-hrf/privacy-and-cryptocurrency-part-ii-bitcoin-wallets-2f68099b055f">https://medium.com/human-rights-foundation-hrf/privacy-and-cryptocurrency-part-ii-bitcoin-wallets-2f68099b055f</A>
We funded this initiative, which is being written by HRF Privacy Technology
Fellow Eric Wall. Background info:
<A HREF="https://www.zfnd.org/blog/human-rights-foundation-privacy-research/">https://www.zfnd.org/blog/human-rights-foundation-privacy-research/</A>
The next installment is going to be about privacy-preserving
cryptocurrencies like Zcash and Monero!
5/10
The Open Money Initiative, sponsored by the Zcash Foundation among other
organizations, debuted the results of their research on cryptocurrency
usage in Venezuela. OMI's blog post:
<A HREF="https://medium.com/@openmoneyinitiative/announcing-the-open-money-initiative-61422b58ad06">https://medium.com/@openmoneyinitiative/announcing-the-open-money-initiative-61422b58ad06</A>
CoinDesk article:
<A HREF="https://www.coindesk.com/whats-holding-back-bitcoin-in-venezuela-this-group-is-investigating">https://www.coindesk.com/whats-holding-back-bitcoin-in-venezuela-this-group-is-investigating</A>
5/14
Alongside Paige Peterson from the Electric Coin Company, Josh Cincinnati
(the Foundation's Executive Director) spoke at Consensus 2019. You can see
the video here: <A HREF="https://www.coindesk.com/events/consensus-2019/videos">https://www.coindesk.com/events/consensus-2019/videos</A> (scroll
down to the video labeled &quot;Electric Coin Company and Zcash Foundation&quot; in
the &quot;Construct&quot; section)
5/14
Also on the Construct stage at Consensus, Zcash Foundation board member
Peter Van Valkenburgh said, &quot;As a director of the Zcash Foundation I don't
want Zcash developers to build a system that maximizes the value of Zcash.
I want them to build the best damn privacy coin they can. That's the
problem with a fiduciary duty of loyalty.&quot;
Quote via Lane Rettig on Twitter:
<A HREF="https://twitter.com/lrettig/status/1128691797495025664">https://twitter.com/lrettig/status/1128691797495025664</A>
5/21
&quot;We are delighted to announce that Deirdre Connolly has joined the Zcash
Foundation as a Core Engineer. [...] At the Zcash Foundation, Deirdre will
be taking ownership of the all-Rust implementation of Zcash and turning it
into a production-quality project.&quot;
More details: <A HREF="https://www.zfnd.org/blog/welcome-deirdre/">https://www.zfnd.org/blog/welcome-deirdre/</A>
5/21
The second Zcash Protocol Hangout happened, and the video has been
published: <A HREF="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FnwW6VvSho">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FnwW6VvSho</A>
The group primarily discussed Blossom and NU3 ZIPs. Paige from the ECC
(mentioned earlier) took notes:
<A HREF="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qik04RpQr_rmPuEOo9FejIlCFK1Pv0LSTjA4qGao-EI/edit">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qik04RpQr_rmPuEOo9FejIlCFK1Pv0LSTjA4qGao-EI/edit</A>
The next one is likely to be planned for August.
5/23
We joined the social network Cent, and got a great response from the
community: <A HREF="https://beta.cent.co/+tesygi">https://beta.cent.co/+tesygi</A>
5/25
Bola-Ige Alabi-Efeshodiamhe repped Zcash at the Blockchain, AI &amp; Digital
Assets Summit in Nigeria:
<A HREF="https://twitter.com/bolaigeaefe/status/1132307394254528512">https://twitter.com/bolaigeaefe/status/1132307394254528512</A>
5/29
New wallet! &#127882;
&quot;The Zcash Foundation is delighted to announce Zepio Wallet, a
shielded-first, cross-platform Zcash wallet that includes a full `zcashd`
node. [...] Zepio is currently available for macOS, Windows, and Linux.&quot;
<A HREF="https://www.zfnd.org/blog/zepio-wallet/">https://www.zfnd.org/blog/zepio-wallet/</A>
Technical choices and development process:
<A HREF="https://medium.com/@andreneves/announcing-zepio-zcash-wallet-bfd836f6609c">https://medium.com/@andreneves/announcing-zepio-zcash-wallet-bfd836f6609c</A>
5/30
&quot;ZF Grants now supports the Zcash mainnet! [...] You can transact with real
$ZEC on the platform.&quot; <A HREF="https://www.zfnd.org/blog/zf-grants-is-ready/">https://www.zfnd.org/blog/zf-grants-is-ready/</A>
People have already submitted proposals: <A HREF="https://grants.zfnd.org/proposals">https://grants.zfnd.org/proposals</A>
On the Zcash Community Forum, a discussion of grant ideas:
<A HREF="https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/faq-around-grant-ideas/33648">https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/faq-around-grant-ideas/33648</A>
That's all for now!
Sonya Mann
Communications Manager
Zcash Foundation
<A HREF="/mailman/listinfo/general">sonya at zfnd.org</A>
@sonyaellenmann &lt;<A HREF="https://twitter.com/sonyaellenmann/">https://twitter.com/sonyaellenmann/</A>&gt;
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