In the long run, civilizations are built by people who create new knowledge.
Zcash keeps attracting them.
Over the past decade the project has quietly assembled one of the strongest cryptographic teams in the world. The people who actually move the field forward keep ending up here.
A few of them:
Sean Bowe (@ebfull) has been a principal cryptographic engineer of Zcash since day 1. He invented Halo, the breakthrough that eliminated trusted setups in zero-knowledge proofs and changed how the whole industry builds them. He's a high-school dropout and self taught cryptographer who fundamentally advanced the field of cryptography. Not only Zcash but also the world wouldn't be the same without his discoveries.
Dev Ojha (@zkDragon) is best known as a cofounder of Osmosis, one of the most successful blockchains in the Cosmos ecosystem. He's also a world class cryptographer who studied at UC Berkeley under Alessandro Chiesa, one of the foremost zero-knowledge researchers in the world.
Before Osmosis, he was part of the launch and a core contributor to both Tendermint and the Cosmos SDK. In cryptography, he coauthored Fractal, the world's first post-quantum recursive proof system, and contributed substantively to Aurora and Marlin, two foundational papers in the ZK canon. His code lives in production ZK libraries used across the industry.
After helping build a multibillion dollar protocol, he turned his attention to one of the hardest open problems in the field: how to scale encrypted money to billions of users. His work goes straight at the bottlenecks that have kept private payments from reaching global scale, including private information retrieval, eliminating shielded sync, and post-quantum privacy.
Tal Derei (@mariusmargulus) is one of the core engineers and cryptographers building Tachyon alongside Sean. He comes to it from Penumbra, one of the most ambitious privacy projects in all of Cosmos, while doing zero-knowledge research at Lehigh. He won a ZPrize for making client-side proving dramatically faster on the GPU, cracking one of the exact bottlenecks that decides whether billions of people can generate private proofs on a phone instead of renting a data center. That single problem sits between encrypted money and the entire planet.
And Tachyon is where that firepower gets pointed. The bar is almost absurdly high: make fully encrypted money scale by orders of magnitude while making privacy stronger and validators lighter. Most teams would kill to land even one of those. Tachyon is chasing all three at once.
The proposed upgrade cuts transaction costs by roughly two orders of magnitude, ends runaway state growth, enables oblivious synchronization, and charts a path toward full post-quantum privacy. These are the people who ship what everyone else calls impossible.
That's before the wider ecosystem of protocol engineers, researchers, auditors, and contributors who've spent years pushing zero-knowledge cryptography forward.
These names matter for one reason: they keep producing original advances that the rest of the industry later adopts.
Zcash shipped the first production zk-SNARKs.
Zcash researchers helped eliminate trusted setups.
Right now the team is building Ironwood, a near-term upgrade that uses formal verification and independent audits to harden the protocol and let anyone verify the circulating supply for themselves. A perfect shielded pool.
Ironwood also makes Zcash post-quantum recoverable, building on Dev's work: if a quantum computer ever breaks today's cryptography, your funds can still be moved to safety.
Next comes Tachyon, a new architecture for private payments designed to scale while keeping privacy intact. Tachyon takes the harder step to full post-quantum privacy, so shielded transactions stay private even against a future quantum computer.
Backing Zcash is a bet on something larger than encrypted money. It's a bet that some of the best cryptographic talent on Earth keeps doing what it's done for a decade: creating new knowledge.
Historically, betting against the people who create new knowledge has not been a winning strategy.
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Together with @zodl_co, @ZcashFoundation, @ValarGroup and @ShieldedLabs, we're advocating for a network upgrade that would make ZEC's circulating supply auditable, providing additional reassurance that no counterfeiting occurred in the Orchard pool before this week's bugfix.
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I see zcash price crash. So much people be panic: "Oh Wei Wu. Orchard pool be exploit. Infinite zcash be print. Life be over. Blah. blah. Blah".
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Zcash orchard pool possess error for last 4 year allow hacker make infinite zec.
Look first picture
> I be hacker (Rational Player 1)
> I say "okay. Im now able make infinite zcash:native . What my strategy for maximize my cash?"
> 1. Cooperate: I sell slow. I hold token. Sell only when price go up. Not cause alarm. Make money slowly.
> 2. Defect: I make infinite token number then sell all token most fast.
> BUT PROBLEM! If im cooperate and not sell most fast, what if another Rational player 2 also find exploit. He sell fast. then price drop most fast and im not able make any money!
> what be my optimum strategy for make optimum money? I make infinite zcash and put in shielded pool. THEN I SELL SO FAST ZCASH PRICE DUMP TO 0.000001 YUAN.
Now go look second picture.
> shielded pool number keep go up
> price for zcash until vulnerability be discovered also keep go up
> How this 2 fact be possible if someone use vulnerability for make zcash?
> answer: NOT POSSIBLE
My friend, now you stop behave like america vagina. Stop be cry. Be appreciate. This most wonderful opportunity for be prosperity because market so stupid sell so much make price be too low. We all soon make our ancestor look down nod head up and down be most proud because we create much prosperity for ancestor bloodline so now our own descendent be so prosperity too.
NOW DO YOU UNDERSTAND?
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NEWS ⚡️: @wolfdotgame is Migrating Valley Game Assets Back to Ethereum Mainnet
• Valley Game NFTs and onchain resources are heading back to Ethereum within the next week
• No action required for most holders: no bridge, no migration UI, no transaction needed
• Cave Game stays on Abstract. Only Valley Game assets are affected
• Abstract wallet holders must link their wallet to an Ethereum address via https://t.co/RIVvwULAmb before the snapshot
• Assets not linked in time will be sent to the Ethereum signer wallet instead
Holders will still have access via their signer wallet if they miss the window, but linking early is the cleanest path.