[Cypherpunk: Snowden Was Involved in the Early Design and Creation of Zcash] Odaily Planet Daily News - Cypherpunk, the ZEC treasury company, disclosed on the X platform that Edward Snowden was involved in the early design and creation process of Zcash (ZEC). Zcash is one of the first projects in the world to achieve large-scale application of zero-knowledge proofs (ZK proofs), with long-term expertise in the fields of privacy computing, security, and cryptographic foundations.