From Survival to Accelerated Growth: ZODL Founder Recounts Zcash's Three-Year Rise

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ZODL founder Josh Swihart recounts a three-year turnaround for Zcash driven by governance reform, product focus, and organizational change. The community replaced prior direct funding and trademark controls with a NU6 model that decentralizes protocol-controlled funding, while ECC and Zcash Foundation stepped back. The team shifted to user-growth products—most visibly the Zodl wallet—and reports anonymous supply rising from ~11% to ~31%, anonymous transactions at 86.5%, and strong price performance. The former ECC team formed ZODL, raised $25M from major crypto investors, and now prioritizes user experience, Tachyon scalability to Visa-level throughput, and post-quantum wallet security.

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