Zcash Foundation is a nonprofit public charity that builds financial privacy infrastructure centered on the Zcash protocol and blockchain. Zcash Foundation's Twitter Score is 86 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of October 2026, ranking #9,059 (top 5%) among 493,607 tracked accounts.
Zcash Foundation was incorporated on February 3, 2017, with Andrew Miller listed as incorporator, and operates as a 501(c)(3) organization focused on the public good. The Foundation is affiliated with Electric Coin Company, which entered a trademark donation and license agreement with the Foundation in 2019, transferring Zcash trademark rights to it. Under ZIP 1014, a Zcash Development Fund was established drawing on 20% of block subsidies, with 25% of that allocation directed to the Foundation. The Foundation is also affiliated with Zcash Community Grants.
Zcash Foundation develops and maintains two core technical projects: Zebra, an independent consensus-compatible Zcash node implementation, and ZF FROST, a Rust reference implementation of FROST two-round threshold Schnorr signatures for Zcash. On the community side, the Foundation facilitates Zcon, Zcash Dev Summits, Zcon Voices, and Zcash Arborist Calls to support the broader Zcash ecosystem. The Foundation's team includes Alex Bornstein as Executive Director, Danika Delano as Chief Operating Officer, Pili Guerra as Head of Engineering, and Elise Hamdon as Chief Communications Officer.
Zcash Foundation has published 5,478 posts on the platform and has 28,826 followers as of October 2026. The account has been mentioned by 344 accounts, with 993 total mentions.
Zcash Foundation's portfolio includes The Tor Project, Open Money Initiative, Bolt Labs, Zecwallet, PayWithZcash, Zero-knowledge Audiovisual Club and PGP For Crypto.
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