Shielded Labs has extended Taylor’s agreement through the end of 2026. Taylor will continue serving as a Security Consultant, where his primary focus will be identifying security vulnerabilities and supporting remediation efforts.
Taylor will also contribute to Ironwood. He will focus on the assurance work around the upgrade, including security review and formal verification. His goal is to help ensure the protocol and code receive rigorous scrutiny before deployment and that significant issues are identified and addressed as early as possible.
This work is crucial. We believe the number of security vulnerabilities being discovered across the industry will continue to increase as AI-assisted security research becomes more sophisticated. Our goal is to stay ahead of that curve. Taylor has spent years working on the security of Zcash, and his discovery of the Orchard vulnerability demonstrated the value of his experience.
There’s no one we’d rather have helping us improve the security of Zcash.