Gleyo has now reached 100 registered users.
But the number itself isn’t the part I’m most excited about.
What means more to me is how we got here.
I first discovered Zcash and started getting involved in the ecosystem. Very early on, I received the New User of the Month recognition, which gave me even more motivation to keep contributing and learning from the people already building here.
One of the projects I became involved with was Nozy Wallet. I worked closely with the team on the development side, helping move things from development toward something that could actually be used by other developers and members of the ecosystem.
Then came the ZecHub Hackathon.
That was where Gleyo really started taking shape.
I built Gleyo around an idea I had been thinking about for a while:
How can we make it easier for people to participate in communities and contribute without requiring them to already understand everything about the ecosystem?
Gleyo became my answer to that.
I submitted Gleyo to the hackathon, and the support I received from the community during that period honestly surprised me.
Within 24 hours of sharing the submission, Gleyo reached 33 users.
People started testing it. People gave feedback. People pointed out things I hadn’t noticed. And instead of stopping at the submission, I kept shipping.
More quests.
Better onboarding.
Better verification.
Better payment flows.
Fixes based on real user behaviour.
And most importantly, I started learning that getting someone to sign up is very different from getting them to actually participate and come back.
The hackathon ended. Gleyo didn’t.
I didn’t win the hackathon.
Of course, I wasn’t happy about that at the time.
But looking back, that result didn’t change why I came to Zcash in the first place.
I came here because I wanted to help drive adoption through something I could actually build.
So I kept going.
The ZecHub team continued supporting me even after the hackathon. People like @squirrel, @dismad and @Lowo88 continued giving feedback, testing things, sharing ideas and helping me understand where Gleyo could become more useful.
That support mattered a lot.
I kept reaching out to projects and communities, one after another, showing them what Gleyo could do and learning from each conversation.
And then something started changing.
Projects outside Zcash started showing interest.
Zcash communities started asking how they could use Gleyo for their own onboarding, activities and engagement.
From building Gleyo to powering a real campaign
That interest eventually turned into something real.
Gleyo is now powering a Proof of Privacy community campaign, where contributors can complete activities through Gleyo and earn ZEC for their participation.
You can see the campaign here:
Proof of Privacy campaign on Gleyo
And this campaign also led to something I’m particularly excited about: Zodl coming on as the official partner for the campaign.
This gives contributors another way to get involved with the Zcash ecosystem, while giving Zodl more exposure to new users who are actively participating, using shielded ZEC, and providing feedback through the campaign.
For me, this is exactly the kind of ecosystem connection I wanted Gleyo to create: community participation that can lead people naturally toward the tools and
For me, this is exactly the kind of ecosystem connection I wanted Gleyo to create.
And now we’re here.
Gleyo has now grown to 100 registered users.
We’ve gone from a hackathon project to having real people using the platform, completing quests, testing flows and giving feedback. We’re now also seeing communities actively asking how they can use Gleyo for their own activities and onboarding.
That’s probably the signal I’m most excited about.
Because the goal was never simply to build another quest platform.
The goal was to make Zcash participation easier.
I want someone to be able to discover a community, participate in meaningful activities, contribute, learn about Zcash along the way, and eventually become part of the ecosystem naturally.
Not:
“First understand Zcash, wallets, addresses and everything else, then you can participate.”
But rather:
“Come participate. Learn as you go. Become part of the ecosystem.”
That is the direction I’m taking Gleyo.
Making Zcash onboarding a natural outcome of community participation rather than a prerequisite.
And we’re still very early.
100 users is just another milestone in the journey.
There are more communities to onboard, more workflows to build, more feedback to collect, and a lot more I want to do with Gleyo.
I’m extremely grateful to everyone who tested it, gave feedback, supported the project, challenged my ideas, or simply encouraged me to keep building.
From a hackathon submission to helping Zcash communities onboard, engage and reward their contributors.
Still building. 
