Grant Application - Zcash studio

Community Grants Applications
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GitHub Application: https://github.com/ZcashCommunityGrants/zcashcommunitygrants/issues/314

Project: Zcash studio
Requested amount: $45,000
Category: Infrastructure

Zcash Studio is an open-source visual development environment designed to make building privacy-preserving applications on Zcash significantly more accessible to developers, students, entrepreneurs, and hackathon participants.

A key innovation of Zcash Studio is its AI-assisted application builder. Users will be able to describe an application in natural language and automatically generate visual workflows and starter application structures. For example:

“Build a donation platform that accepts shielded ZEC and unlocks premium content after payment.”

Zcash Studio will generate the corresponding workflow, UI components, and application logic, dramatically reducing the time required to prototype and launch Zcash-powered applications.

The platform will also include a sandbox environment that allows users to test workflows and simulate transactions without deploying production infrastructure. This will make Zcash Studio a valuable educational resource for learning Zcash concepts through hands-on experimentation.

Why this matters for Zcash

Today, developing applications on top of Zcash requires knowledge of blockchain architecture, wallet infrastructure, transaction handling, SDK integrations, and privacy-preserving technologies. While these capabilities are powerful, they present a substantial barrier to entry for many builders who want to leverage Zcash but lack specialized blockchain expertise.

Zcash Studio aims to bridge this gap by providing a drag-and-drop visual development platform inspired by tools such as Scratch, FlutterFlow, Node-RED, and Retool. Instead of writing complex code, users will be able to visually assemble applications using reusable Zcash-native building blocks.

What this grant funds

This grant funds the development of the initial Zcash Studio MVP, including the visual workflow engine, Zcash-native development blocks, AI-assisted workflow generation, testing infrastructure, documentation, reusable templates, and code export functionality.

The grant will support the creation of an open-source platform that allows developers to visually build, test, and prototype privacy-preserving applications without requiring extensive blockchain expertise.

Zcash Community Grants Meeting Minutes 6/22/2026
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This is my idea, @ZCG He has just taken my Grant Idea Feedback request and applied for a grant, This is very wrong, Been working on it for close to 2 months. If this can be handled and sorted by a ZCash Community Grant forum review,

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You cannot claim that I stole your idea. The internet is a vast space, and for almost any idea someone believes they own, thousands if not millions of others have likely thought of something similar.

Having an idea is not enough; execution is what truly matters.

I’ve had this concept in my notes for quite some time and independently decided to build it on Zcash. At no point did I copy or take anyone else’s work.

I would also encourage you to carefully review my project description before making accusations. While there may be similarities at a high level, the implementation, vision, scope, and execution details matter.

By the way, you can check my account history. I only registered on the forum two days ago, so it’s difficult to suggest that I have been following or monitoring your work over an extended period of time.

I respect the effort you’ve put into your project, and I ask that the same respect be extended to me. Let’s allow the community and grant committee to evaluate proposals based on their merits rather than assumptions.

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By the way, you can check my GitHub, I’m not a random guy stealing people’s idea

I have built open source tools used by developers in the starknet ecosystem, contributed to open source projects in Starknet, stellar, fuel network and Aztec

I also won many hackathons.

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Okay, I see where I am wrong, I am sorry for the Accusation, But you can see why this was bothering me, I had posted a grant Idea, For feedback before, Also called Z-Studio, Same thing, Won many hackathons but that does not really matter, Does it, Since we are working on almost similar projects, Maybe we can combine effort and time and just work on this together, What do you think?

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Great minds think alike.

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Sure bro we can work together

Hit me up in my telegram: @jaykosai

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Looking forward, Texting you

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Thank you for your submission. After consideration from ZCG and sufficient time for the community to provide feedback on the forum, the committee has decided to reject this proposal. Details on this decision will be available in the meeting minutes posted after June 22nd.

The committee appreciates your grant submission efforts and encourages you to continue as an active member of the Zcash community going forward!

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Okay, Looking forward for the minutes

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My feeling is that what is being proposed already exists on my computer today. AI development tools already let me build Zcash-related projects without having to work through every technical detail myself. If this is just a simpler visual interface for AI-generated code, that already exists in practice. And if developers cannot even use tools like VS Code and Codex or something else, then honestly, I am not sure these are the contributors I want to see in Zcash.

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Yeah, true, Tools like Codex, Claude Code exist, But My thought was like so: okay I am a beginner, I have this private coaching group, I want to be able to manage all my clients and all my payment in this one platform, Okay, I am a beginner, Where do I start? What next?

For me I believed that the best way we could open up the ecosystem to devs and non-devs, And basically just make it easy for everyone to start building and deploying on z cash, And not just devs, everyone. Image you give a non-tech person the ability to experiment, That’s where you’ll get people building killer projects, Vibe coding but we provide the architecture and underlying security to make sure whatever they are vibe coding is actually secure, And from what we are seeing out here, not all projects go to production for the vibe coded apps, But a lot of people are now getting to build and adapt tech. That was my point of view, What do you think @artkor and @jaykosai

I am sure if I go through the Off Topic Lounge, General or other forums, You will get a lot of people who have killer ideas for ZCash but they do not know where to get started building and the talent is really limited, And we cannot ll afford to pay thousand of dollars to build MVPs.

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Personally, I think this was a relevant issue about 10 years ago. Back when I had some great ideas of my own that I thought would make me money, I would invest my own money in bringing them to life by hiring developers. It really took a lot of time and resources, and required a great deal of organizational skill on my part. Today, I could do the same thing with far less investment, and I’d be able to handle most of it myself, except for the actual good UX and design work.

I think that today there are no technical barriers if a person is willing to dig a little deeper on their own. Neural networks allow us not only to acquire new skills, but also to teach ourselves how to use them. It all depends on the person’s own desire. Enthusiasm and a willingness to take action - that’s what matters; the rest are no longer limiting factors today.

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There isn’t anything that makes Zcash unique in that sense and that would require a dedicated platform. Devs and non-devs can ask their AI how to work with Zcash. It’s capable of setting them up with the right tools now.

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