Happy March! It’s almost spring — celebrate with a message on the community-run ZECpages Anonymous Memo Board 🦓🌷

Last month, the Zcash Foundation funded several exciting grants:

The Tor Project

@torproject As more users turn to Tor, the network needs to scale to match the demand. Thanks to @ZcashFoundation for helping fund our scalability solution, Walking Onions, with a grant to help the Tor network scale in a meaningful way. 🧅🚶‍♀️🧅🚶🧅🚶‍♂️🧅

grants.zfnd.org/proposals/1642…



Feb. 13, 2020, 9:01 p.m.

chelsea h. komlo

@chelseakomlo I am excited to announce our work “Walking Onions: Scaling Anonymity Networks while Protecting Users”, a set of protocols allowing networks like @torproject to scale while requiring only constant bandwidth cost to clients without degrading security

crysp.uwaterloo.ca/software/walki…



Feb. 19, 2020, 6:02 p.m.

The Foundation also signed on to sponsor the third ZKProof Workshop, the MIT Bitcoin Expo, and ZK Summit 5.

Speaking of events, you can apply for an invitation to Zcon2, the Zcash Foundation’s annual conference, which will take place on June 22 – 24 in Lima, Peru. If you’re interested in leading a breakout session, please fill out that section of the application!

In mid-February, ZF executive director Josh Cincinnati spoke about Zcash governance at the SustainWeb3 conference:

…and addressed the same topic in a video interview with CoinDesk.

The latest news on Zcash governance is that ZIP 1014 has been finalized.

Last but not least, don’t miss Henry De Valence’s blog posts about Zebra, the Foundation’s ongoing Rust implementation of a Zcash node:

That’s all for now! See you around on the internet.