The Complete Zcash Roadmap | Sean Bowe and Dev Ojha

What would it take for private money to work at global scale? Zcash co-founder Sean Bowe and ZK researcher Dev join David Hoffman to unpack the next chapter of Zcash, from Tachyon's ambitious scaling roadmap to the challenge of building private wallets that actually work.

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TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Why Zcash Matters Now
07:53 AI Makes Privacy Urgent
11:20 The Zcash Development Roadmap
17:33 Privacy Without Compromises
25:26 Scaling Zcash With Tachyon
39:42 Private Wallets and Proof of Work
41:06 Zcash's Quantum Defense Roadmap
1:00:53 AI Threats and Formal Verification
1:12:53 Security Through Multiple Assumptions
1:19:37 Why Payments Come First
1:25:54 Funding Proof-of-Work Security
1:29:34 Governance and Coinholder Voting
1:34:53 ZEC Price and Protocol Threats

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RESOURCES

Sean Bowe
https://x.com/ebfull

Dev Ojha
https://x.com/zkDragon

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