The Zcash Foundation recently responded to the topic of Electric Coin Company (ECC) establishing a new company. Many people are concerned that this could impact the ecosystem, but the foundation clarified directly: no.

The core logic is simple—Zcash is essentially an open-source decentralized protocol, and there is no such thing as a "single leader." Independent nodes around the world are running the network, and no one can control it. Organizational adjustments, such as changes on ECC's side, do not affect the operation of the protocol itself.

The foundation emphasized several concrete points: blocks are generated as usual, transactions are processed as usual, and the mainnet is running stably. Key indicators such as user asset security and privacy protection remain unchanged. Core tasks like protocol development, research funding, infrastructure construction, and governance will continue as usual.

In plain terms, this is the benefit of decentralization—changes in a single organization or team do not affect the network. As an independent chain, Zcash's stability comes from the distributed nature of its architecture, not from any centralized entity.