Hours after their controversial departure from Electric Coin Co (ECC), Zcash developers announced the launch of a new wallet, cashZ. While at ECC, the team had developed a wallet called Zashi. Following their exit, they revealed plans for cashZ, which will build on Zashi’s codebase. The announcement came from Josh Swihart, former CEO of ECC, in a blog post shared on X. The team emphasized that cashZ does not signal a break from Zcash. “We aren’t launching new coins—our goal is to scale Zcash. To achieve that, we had to leave and start a Zcash-focused company,” Swihart wrote. He added, “It’s time to scale Zcash to ... (full story)