We’re proud to share that shielded ZEC is now supported in Courageous Pockets—marking an enormous milestone not just for Zcash, however for the way forward for privateness throughout the net. The mixing is a part of the continuing partnership between ECC, Courageous, and Filecoin Basis introduced at Mainnet 2023.
This launch has been years within the making. It started, like so many good issues do, over barbecue in Austin—only a few privateness nerds from ECC and Courageous, buying and selling concepts about wallets, browsers, and a shared imaginative and prescient of what privateness may seem like in Web3. That informal meal became a multi-year, deeply collaborative effort to carry shielded Zcash to tens of millions of Courageous customers.
What makes this second so necessary isn’t simply the expertise—although constructing zero-knowledge assist right into a browser-based pockets for the primary time ever is a significant technical achievement. It’s the truth that Courageous and ECC share a core perception: privateness is a elementary proper. Not a gimmick, not a luxurious—one thing important to freedom within the digital age.
Now, for the primary time, customers can retailer and spend shielded ZEC instantly of their browser. This paves the best way for true personal funds throughout the net and introduces tens of millions of customers to monetary privateness in a means that’s accessible and intuitive.
It’s additionally value recognizing the way it was made potential: not by way of a one-off grant or transactional integration, however by way of deep, sustained collaboration between ECC and Courageous at each degree. Our groups have met each different week since this partnership started—fixing challenges, checking in by way of shared channels, and constructing belief for the final 3 years. Courageous builders leaned on ECC’s core engineering group to know and combine our libraries, and ECC engineers labored facet by facet with them to make sure the implementation goes easily.
This type of partnership is uncommon. It displays a long-term dedication—not simply to one another and this milestone, however to the broader mission of constructing instruments that defend customers, not exploit them. That dedication reaches from engineers to management and continues nicely past this necessary achievement.
Shielded ZEC in Courageous is a win for Zcash, a win for Courageous, and—most significantly—a win for humanity. That is what it seems like when the proper folks come collectively to construct the monetary instruments we truly need.
Study extra in Courageous’s official announcement.
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