Yes we use the Zcash technology, all credit to them! However, we are not a simple fork as we have added our own technology on top of it. We use NXT style PoS along with a new consensus method called dPoW. The dPoW is an innovation of our own, which will secure Komodo with bitcoin's hashrate (and other coins can secure their blockchains via Komodo).
This is such a convoluted explanation. For all potential investors, please forget about Komodo and simply invest hard in zcash. JL always does this...finds his group of fan-boys who buy into the tech, makes them so excited about something "new" which ends up never getting done and eventually gets hashed into a new ICO....There is no competitive advantage here compared to BTC and zcash for anonymity. This tech will not work.