Executive Summary: Zcash NSM and Dynamic Fees Discussion

[aquietinvestor]

Thanks to everyone who attended today’s X Spaces discussion!

@outgoing.doze

Reception: Described as “uncontroversial” with ~70% support from engineers and unanimous support from ZecHub in prior polling.

Here are the links to the early Helios polls we ran in late 2024 to gauge general sentiment on the NSM. As I mentioned on the call, the sample size was small, but we received 20 responses from ZecHub, all of which supported the NSM, and 17 responses from the engineering community, with 12 in favor and 5 opposed.

Network Sustainability Mechanism (NSM) - ZecHub

Network Sustainability Mechanism (NSM) - Engineering Community

There was also a coinholder poll where roughly 264,000 coins voted in favor of the NSM.

Coinholder Poll - NSM

As I previously mentioned, I’m working with Hanh to organize a coinholder poll to gauge sentiment on the Network Sustainability Mechanism (NSM). Similar to previous polls, coinholders will need to move their ZEC into the Orchard pool during a designated registration window. **For this poll, the registration window runs from Block 2,700,000, which occurred on October 31, 2024, to Block 2,731,300, which will occur around 17:00 UTC on Wednesday, November 27, 2024 to Block 2,734,280, which will occu…