# Future of Zcash dev funding — megathread / everything in one place

**URL:** <https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/future-of-zcash-dev-funding-megathread-everything-in-one-place/34063>\
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**Created:** [July 11, 2019, 11:28pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/future-of-zcash-dev-funding-megathread-everything-in-one-place/34063 "2019-07-11T23:28:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![hloo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/hloo/32/4096_2.png) [@hloo](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/hloo)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2019, 2:07am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/future-of-zcash-dev-funding-megathread-everything-in-one-place/34063/370 "2019-09-03T02:07:56Z")

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> [@joshs](#):
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> The Zcash Foundation’s [mission](https://www.zfnd.org/about/) is the following:
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> “The Zcash Foundation is a [501©3 nonprofit](https://www.zfnd.org/about/incorporation-docs/) focused on financial privacy. We build and support privacy infrastructure for the public good, **primarily serving users of the Zcash protocol** and blockchain.”
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> It’s an applaudable mission. My question is whether the direct receipt of funds under any of the various proposals would be spent entirely on Zcash related activities. Would this force a change in your mission? For example, I believe you financially supported the Monero conference. Do you believe the direct receipt of funds from the Zcash community would, or should, restrict that kind of freedom?

The Zcash Foundation [only donated around 121 Monero to that conference](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/zcon1-june-22-24-in-split-croatia/32589/2). At the time, one Monero was worth around $43, so they donated around $5,203 to the Monero Conference.

While we’re on the topic of prior expenditures, I’m much more concerned about the ECC’s May 2018 investments in [Agoric](https://electriccoin.co/ja/blog/zcash-invests-in-agoric/) and [Starkware](https://electriccoin.co/blog/zcash-invests-in-starkware/), which presumably were much larger than $5,000. Those investments were presumably made using Founders Reward coins, since [the ECC does not have any “alternate revenue streams” besides the Founders Reward](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/the-future-of-zcash-in-the-year-2020/32372/191). Those investments, made with Founders Reward coins, should not inure to the benefit of a private for-profit company, especially one that may [“wind down or pivot”](https://electriccoin.co/blog/ecc-initial-assessment-of-community-proposals/) depending on which choice the community makes regarding a future development fund. As a prerequisite to receiving any portion of any future development fund, the ECC should be made to divest those investments into a trust managed for the benefit of future Zcash development.

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