Explaining Halo 2 - Electric Coin Company

Last year, our team announced a collection of discoveries and research milestones as part of our Scalability 2021 mission for […]

Sean Bowe September 1, 2020 Last year, our team announced a collection of discoveries and research milestones as part of our Scalability 2021 mission for Zcash. Our primary result was Halo , a new zk-SNARK that was finally capable of solving two outstanding issues in Zcash: removing the trusted setup while hitting performance targets and supporting a scalable architecture for private digital payments. Our announcement came as a flurry of other discoveries were also published. By incorporating some of those ideas into Halo, we are able to achieve even more impressive performance gains. The next

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