Our mission is to create an open financial technology platform that everyone in the world can use.
We believe that personal privacy is necessary for core human values like dignity, intimacy, and ethics. Companies need privacy in order to conduct their business; and we believe that privacy strengthens social ties and social institutions, protects societies against their enemies, and helps societies to be more peaceful and more prosperous. Finally, in an open and programmable financial system, privacy is the only way to ensure fungibility.
We are a science-driven team. We are the discoverers of the underlying scientific techniques and the designers of the protocol; we are not the controllers or the power-holders. We believe in the value of decentralization, which promotes security and fairness. Every user of Zcash is a part of the network, and helps protect it against failure and corruption. We created Zcash, but its ultimate destiny lies not in our hands, but in yours.