Zcash Foundation releases 2026 strategic priorities: Zebra, FROST, and privacy protection assistance programs

Odaily Planet Daily reports that the Zcash Foundation has released its strategic priorities for 2026, which include:

1. Achieving Zebra as the sole consensus node: focusing on performance enhancement, completing the NU7 ZIP implementation, and promoting the Z3 technology stack to replace zcashd;

2. Continuing to advance the FROST threshold signature scheme: planning to release version v3, finalize ZIP-312, and introduce a Distributed Key Generation (DKG) protocol;

3. Privacy Protection Assistance Program: promoting the "privacy by default" digital cash aid model and exploring zero-knowledge proof-based identity solutions to balance compliance, accountability, and privacy protection.

Additionally, the Zcash Foundation announced plans to hold three major events in 2026: Zcomm (online) on March 24, the Zcash Dev Summit in Rome, Italy on May 8, and Zcon7 in Cancun, Mexico from October 27 to 29.