The award honors two volunteer Ycash developers for their important contributions — October 31, 2021 Announcement The YDF is announcing today the inaugural recipients of the YDF Core Dev Award. In alphabetical order, the recipients are Hanh Huynh Huu and Miodrag Popović. The importance of these two recipients to the future of Ycash cannot be overstated. It is easy to forget that the…

Joint Venture Enables Direct GPU Mining of Wry Token — Press Release, May 12, 2021 Joint Venture The daPool Mining Pool and the Ycash Foundation have entered into a joint venture to enable GPU miners from around the world to mine Wry, the new DeFi token on Binance Smart Chain recently launched by the Ycash Foundation. Pursuant to the joint venture, daPool…

In addition to representing wrapped Ycash, Wry will power a lending platform for using ERC-20 tokens as collateral for stablecoin loans — By Howard Loo, Ycash Foundation Introduction I am excited to announce the official launch of the Wry token on Binance Smart Chain (BSC). Since the open beta of Wry on BSC began at the end of February, Ycash users have moved nearly 100,000 Ycash coins (aka YEC) over to WRY. It…

The Ycash Foundation will launch ERC-20 tokens representing wrapped Ycash on both Ethereum and Binance Smart Chain — By Howard Loo, Ycash Foundation Announcement I am excited to announce that the Ycash Foundation will launch ERC-20 tokens representing “wrapped” Ycash on both Ethereum and Binance Smart Chain by January 15, 2021. These tokens will enable Ycash holders to use Ycash with Decentralized Finance (DeFi) applications like Uniswap on Ethereum…

A regrettable pun, but a legitimate question nonetheless — Introduction This is the first in a series of articles that will discuss the brief history, current status, and future of the Ycash digital currency. Shortly after Ycash was announced in April of 2019, it didn’t take long for us to hear the first (but certainly not the last) utterance of…

Backing up your wallet, receiving YEC, and sending YEC to a shielded address — Introduction In this article, we will show you how to get started with using YecLite, a lightweight Ycash wallet for MacOS, Linux, and Windows. …

Enjoy the power and privacy of shielded Ycash transactions on your personal computer, without needing to download the entire Ycash blockchain — Introduction The Ycash Foundation is excited to announce the release of YecLite, a lightweight Ycash wallet that fully supports shielded Ycash transactions on computers running MacOS, Linux, or Windows. Download YecLite now: https://github.com/ycashfoundation/yeclite/releases

The Ycash Foundation will fund projects in four key areas — Published: August 15, 2019. Last updated: December 3, 2019. Introduction This roadmap covers Ycash software development for the next several months. (It also includes projects completed between the Ycash launch on July 18, 2019 and the initial publication of this roadmap on August 15, 2019.) This roadmap is subject to change…

With a worldwide legion of GPUs, Ycash has launched. — A New Beginning Twenty-four days ago — on July 18, 2019 — the Ycash/Zcash chain fork occurred. As the last block shared with Zcash was mined at 19:31:50 PDT, people around the world mining with GPUs began working on mining the first Ycash-specific block. Five minutes and one second later, at 19:36:51 PDT…