Zcash Wallet Team Launches New Startup 'cashZ' to Scale Consumer Adoption

2026-01-09 07:20:09

Source: CryptoNewsNet Original Title: Builders behind popular Zcash wallet Zashi to launch new startup ‘cashZ’ Original Link: https://cryptonews.net/news/altcoins/32249521/ The former Electric Coin Company team is moving quickly to reframe Thursday’s Zcash governance clash as a startup pivot rather than a breakup.

Josh Swihart, who led Electric Coin Company, said the group is launching a new Zcash startup and will ship a new wallet built from the Zashi codebase, with the working name “cashZ.”

In a post on X, Swihart said the goal is to “scale Zcash to billions of users,” arguing that “startups can scale, but nonprofits can’t,” and positioning the new entity as the fastest path to build consumer products without being slowed by nonprofit governance.

We are all in on Zcash.

We need to scale Zcash to billions of users.

Startups can scale, but nonprofits can’t.

That’s why we created a new Zcash startup.

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