Since Zcash launched a little more than a year ago, our world-class engineering team has executed beautifully: on-boarding countless new users and businesses from around the world, supporting the global network with zero downtime and zero security breaches, at the same time as delivering high-quality software upgrades.

We’ve delivered fourteen software releases of the zcashd “Magic Bean” reference client, and implemented all of our stated priorities (except that we tabled the User Issued Tokens feature). We’ve seen strong early adoption in our first year with large portions of exchange volume directly to the top national fiat currencies, multiple hardware and software wallets, and strong interest from the traditional finance industry such as the Zcash Investment Trust and a technology partnership with J.P. Morgan

In 2018 we’re going to further upgrade Zcash’s performance, security, and usability (the new Sapling cryptographic technology), bringing our unique encrypted cryptocurrency technology to smartphones and thus available to 2 billion users worldwide.

Our team of scientists and engineers is focused on safely and seamlessly deploying this breakthrough cryptographic innovation to the world-wide Zcash network, even while that network grows and supports an increasing load of usage.

The first, preparatory, network upgrade will go live June 2018. The Sapling network upgrade will go live September, 2018.

All of our current users and use-cases will be supported through this transition. We’ll be available to answer any questions. You do not need to do anything at this time to prepare for this upgrade, but stay tuned for more information, instructions, and user support. You can also read the Weekly Dev Updates for visibility in the development process.