Zcash Ecosystem Grant Funding
summary
Recent history and concrete proposals: the Zcash grant stack runs ZF minor grants, ZCG major grants, and an ECC–Filecoin program that had a $5M pot and spent 100% within a year, while the community treasury fell from $26M to about $3M in 2022. Demonstrated moves include hiring a security lead, staging pilots into larger milestones, and creating roles like code auditor and outreach coordinator. Suggested changes are RFP-driven grants windows, quadratic community rounds for small grants, offshore domicile experiments, and explicit hedging of ZEC for multi‑year commitments.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Zcash grant funding intro
- 1:02Grant programs state and challenges
- 8:06Evolving funding models
- 14:30Innovation versus protocol maintenance
- 20:56Treasury management strategies
- 27:59Geographic reach and engagement
- 36:53Grant programs and decentralization
- 42:58Future directions and closing
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