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Cypherpunk Taps Zcash Founder Zooko as Strategic Advisor
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Dec. 9, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Cypherpunk Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq: CYPH) today announced that industry pioneer Zooko Wilcox, the founder of
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[{"type":"text","content":"CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Dec. 9, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Cypherpunk Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq: CYPH) today announced that industry pioneer Zooko Wilcox, the founder of Zcash, former CEO of the Electric Coin Company, and current Chief Product Officer of Shielded Labs, has joined the company as a Strategic Advisor.Zooko brings a decades-long track record of shaping modern cryptography, decentralized systems, and digital asset governance. Zooko is widely respected for his pioneering work in privacy-preserving protocols and for founding Electric Coin Company, which launched and stewarded the Zcash protocol. As Strategic Advisor, Zooko will offer expert guidance on the future of self-sovereign digital systems, underscoring Cypherpunk's long-view approach and its commitment to the advancement of privacy and freedom.\"Cypherpunk's commitment to ZEC is a clear signal that user-controlled privacy is not a niche, it's a fundamental building block of a healthy and stable society. Cypherpunk is not just buying a digital asset; they are investing in the very principle of economic freedom that Zcash was built for.\" – Zooko Wilcox, Founder of Zcash and current Chief Product Officer of Shielded Labs\"As the founder of Zcash, Zooko intimately understands both the technical foundations and the philosophy behind privacy-preserving technology. His guidance will be invaluable as Cypherpunk grows its Zcash treasury and supports new privacy innovation that strengthens freedom and individual sovereignty. And this is only the beginning. We're assembling a world-class bench of cypherpunks, cryptographers, technologists, and thinkers committed to advancing Zcash and the global privacy ecosystem.\" – Will McEvoy, Chief Investment Officer of CypherpunkCypherpunk is a company dedicated to privacy and self-sovereignty. As the world becomes increasingly digitized, privacy has become a rare and vanishing commodity. Despite this, privacy enhancing technologies remain under-adopted. Backing privacy today is both a generational mission and a massive opportunity. Privacy is the foundation that allows freedom of speech, thought, and association to thrive. Without it, these freedoms exist only on paper and can't be exercised in practice in a meaningful way. In other words, privacy is the silent precondition of freedom. About CypherpunkCypherpunk Technologies Inc., previously ...