The Coinholder-Directed Retroactive Grants Program is now accepting proposals for the Q3 2026 round. You can submit a proposal for your own completed work or nominate an individual, company, or project you believe should receive funding to apply for a grant. Retroactive grants provide funding for work that has already been completed and can be publicly verified. Coinholders will decide which proposals to fund through a coinholder vote scheduled for September.
Deadline to submit a proposal: August 14th at 20:00 UTC
After the submission deadline, there will be a mandatory 30-day review period from Monday, August 17 to Wednesday, September 16. The coinholder poll will then run from Thursday, September 17 through Tuesday September 29.
Copy and paste your completed proposal into a new separate thread in the Community Grants | Retroactive Grants section of the Zcash Community Forum so the community can provide feedback on each proposal.
If you already submitted a proposal for the canceled Q2 vote then no further action is needed, your proposal will be included for Q3. If adjustments are required for your proposal please update both GitHub and your forum post.
If you have any questions about the process or your submission, please post them in this thread. Thanks!
Understanding the Coinholder-Directed Retroactive Grants Program (CDRGP)
The Coinholder-Directed Retroactive Grants Program (CDRGP) is one of three Zcash grant programs, alongside Zcash Community Grants (ZCG) and the ZecHub Bounty Program. It’s funded by 12% of block rewards (per ZIP 1016, in effect from November 2025 through Zcash’s third halving in 2028) plus initial capital from the Deferred Dev Fund Lockbox. Funds are held in a legally binding multisig wallet managed by Keyholder Organizations and FPF administers the program’s submission and reporting process.
Who can apply
Anyone can submit a proposal — for their own completed work, or to nominate another individual, company, or project.
Grants are retroactive only: the work must already be fully completed and publicly verifiable at the time of submission. This program does not fund proposed or in-progress work.
There’s no fixed cap on request size, but grants above $50,000 require FPF to perform KYC checks before disbursement.
If a proposal is rejected by coinholders, the applicant can still resubmit it for consideration through ZCG’s milestone-based model instead.
Process
Call for Proposals — Announced each quarter via the forum, GitHub, and social channels.
Submission — Complete the proposal template on GitHub, then mirror it as a new thread in the forum’s Retroactive Grants category so the community can give feedback.
Mandatory 30-day Review Period — Proposals are discussed publicly; anyone can ask questions or raise concerns directly in the applicant’s thread.
Proposal Summary — FPF publishes a summary of all proposals before polling opens (total requested funding, treasury impact, historical outcomes).
Coinholder Poll — Each proposal is voted Yes/No individually. A minimum participation threshold of ~420,000 ZEC (~2% of supply) per proposal is required for the vote to count, and a simple majority passes.
Thank you for allowing us (THORSwap/Metro) to qualify for this round of retroactive grants after Q2 round was cancelled.
We’re still hard at work expanding support for ZEC and features (looking at expanding integration for more hardware+software wallets at the moment).
Quick update:
We just launched THORSwap’s big V3 overhaul update which includes our native in-app Metro wallet (with Zcash support), on/off ramps for ZEC and portfolio view to management multichain assets including ZEC.
Our ZEC volume in July was ~$13M ($12,935,027) representing significant marketshare and usage amongst our users.
