Electric Coin Company (ECC), the core developer of Zcash, has experienced a major personnel change: the entire development team has collectively resigned.

ECC CEO Josh Swihart stated that the forced departure of the team was due to deep disagreements with the non-profit organization Bootstrap. He pointed out that a series of decision changes by the other party made the working environment difficult to continue.

This incident has sparked widespread attention in the Zcash community and also reflects common conflicts of interest in open-source project governance. As a representative project of the privacy coin ecosystem, how Zcash's development direction and governance structure are adjusted will directly impact the project's future trajectory.