Call For Proposals: Coinholder-Directed Retroactive Grants Program

Community Grants Retroactive Grants
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The Coinholder-Directed Retroactive Grants Program is now accepting proposals. 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 November.

Deadline to submit a proposal: October 12

After the submission deadline, there will be a mandatory 30-day review period from Monday, October 13 to Wednesday, November 12. The coinholder poll will then run from Thursday, November 13 through Monday, November 24.

How to Submit:

  1. Complete the proposal template on GitHub.
  2. 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 have any questions about the process or your submission, please post them in this thread.

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Zcash Marketplace: Private P2P Trading with Escrow
Review Period: Coinholder-Directed Retroactive Grants Program
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We have received the first proposal:

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Below is the link to our retroactive grant application from Bootstrap / ECC:

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Hello @aquietinvestor, I’d like to clarify one point regarding the submission process.

I plan to submit a proposal for a software project whose source code is currently hosted on a private GitHub repository. Since the application requires evidence of completed work and suggests including a GitHub repository URL, I’m unsure how to proceed.

I do not wish to make the source code publicly accessible until I know the project will receive retroactive funding. In other words, I intend to release it publicly only if it is approved.

Should I still include the URL to the private repository in my proposal (and grant access to selected individuals later), or is there an alternative way to provide verifiable evidence of the work without making the repository public at this stage? Would a deployment URL be sufficient at this stage?

If it is actually required to release publicly the source codes before the application gets accepted or rejected, can I release obfuscated code, which is fully working but hard to read? Would that fullfill the requirement?

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For the coinholder grants program, the objective is to enable coinholders to verify that work has been completed, even if the full codebase is not yet public. Applicants are not required to make their repositories public before approval, but they should provide sufficient verifiable evidence to allow reviewers to assess the submission.

A few possible approaches include:

  • Including the private GitHub URL in your proposal and noting that access will be granted to selected reviewers upon request.
  • Providing a deployment URL or demo that demonstrates the completed functionality.
  • Sharing screenshots, documentation, or a short video walkthrough showing the project in action.

If the proposal is approved, the source code should be made publicly available under the MIT license as part of the final verification process prior to fund distribution.

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Thank you very much for reply. I did as suggested.

Link to a forum topic, as required by the application:

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Note that this request is for administering the program and not a retroactive grant request but posting a link here for consistency. Thanks! Proposal: Funding FPF’s Administrative & Operational Role for the Coinholder-Directed Retroactive Grants Program

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NozyWallet is the first complete Zcash Orchard wallet built in Rust on Zebrad as Nozy will be a good educational value comprehensive learning resource for Orchard development.

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Nozy wallet Retroactive Grant
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Reminder: The deadline to submit a retroactive grant proposal is Sunday, October 12 at 11:59pm UTC.

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Submitted our proposal for Unstoppable Wallet

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Zingo Labs is submitting a proposal for retroactive funding of pepper-sync

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Hi Everyone ! This is our retroactive grant proposal for Zcash.me

If you liked Zecpages from 2020, you will love Zcash.me from 2025

Thank you for your consideration <3

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Hi @zecretary. Unfortunately, the deadline was Sunday, October 12 at 11:59pm UTC, so you missed the cutoff. You proposal will not be considered for the Q4 round. However, you can still submit a proposal through Zcash Community Grants, or wait for the next coinholder-directed retroactive grant round in Q1 2026.

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Fair enough. I’ll discuss with the team. Thank you

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Now that the submission deadline has passed, the mandatory 30-day review period has begun. During this time, please review the submitted proposals and engage with the applicants in their individual grant threads. This is your opportunity to ask questions, share constructive feedback, and raise any concerns. The review period will end on Wednesday, November 12th and will be followed by a coinholder poll.

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maybe there should be a new thread for just reviewing - collect all the applications in 1 main OP?

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Yeah, good call. I’ll pull that together this morning.