It’s my nice honor to be requested to guide ECC as CEO.

I wish to thank Zooko for every thing he’s taught me within the six years that I’ve identified him. I’ve deep respect and admiration for Zooko and his contributions to this trade and to mankind. He’s a very exceptional human. There’ll solely ever be one Zooko. 

Zcash is a particular venture. Its function to empower financial freedom is healthful and good. Its legacy is indelible. The innovation inside and the expertise behind it are simple. That it thrives is significant. All of the earth will need to have entry to personal, self-sovereign cash if we’re to be free.

To comprehend it, we should start to maneuver into a brand new season with a unique rhythm. Our focus will likely be to search out product-market match. That may require a steady and iterative strategy of remark, hypotheses improvement, and testing. We’ll work with you to invent new issues.

This will likely be a time of wide-eyed discovery, experimentation, and pulling our strengths collectively to make magic occur. We will likely be one staff, in live performance with each other, quickly ideating and iterating, whereas working collaboratively with many throughout the Zcash and crypto ecosystem.

My close to time period priorities are threefold:

• Take away friction and boundaries, at ECC and inside the neighborhood, that impede our potential to iterate rapidly
• Focus efforts to exponentially improve Zcash utility via user-focused merchandise and continuous suggestions
• Safe ECC monetary sustainability so we are able to ship extra, for longer

In assist of those priorities, a number of adjustments will instantly take impact:

• We’ll optimize ECC’s organizational construction to assist effectivity and enhance the chance of our success.
• Inside processes and insurance policies will change to assist elevated focus, empowerment, and voice.

Whereas I’ve been requested by ECC to formally assist forge a brand new path forward, ECC is just one participant within the Zcash neighborhood. Realizing a renewed Zcash requires a refrain of voices, each inside ECC and throughout the Zcash neighborhood. I look ahead to collaborating with you.

I’d wish to thank Zooko and the opposite Bootstrap (ECC dad or mum) Board members, together with Alan Fairless, Christina Garman, Michelle Lai, and Zaki Manian, in your management, and thoughtfulness. This belief is the respect of my skilled life.

I’d additionally wish to thank the numerous of you throughout the neighborhood who’ve engaged with me in latest weeks on the way forward for Zcash — ideating, dreaming, encouraging, and collaborating. You understand who you might be, and also you’re invaluable each to me and this legacy we’re collectively constructing with Zcash. All of us want one another, now greater than ever. Let’s go!

Josh