ZCash on Ethereum: Anonymity With Smart Contracts
Ethereum was designed and developed to operate as the base protocol for smart contract settlements. It allows multiple parties to establish unalterable agreements with one another for several use cases, mainly for legal purposes. The ZCash team is working on integrating its anonymous cryptocurrency and zk-SNARKs-based cryptography on top of Ethereum effectively anonymizing the protocol and providing a completely new level of privacy to Ethereum users. In a more technical sense, the ZCash team in collaboration with the members of the Ethereum R&D team are adding zero-knowledge succinct....
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