Grant Application ZKFIED

Community Grants Applications
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Hi everyone !!

I just wanted to share that we’ve officially submitted our Zcash Community Grant application for ZKFIED.

ZKFIED is a censorship-resistant whistleblower platform built on Zcash shielded transactions, combined with threshold cryptography and zero-knowledge proofs, to allow anonymous and verifiable evidence submission without centralized servers or metadata leakage.

The grant focuses on mainnet deployment, security audits, and strengthening Zcash as a privacy foundation for non-financial use cases. I’ll add the link to the grant issue below for all details !

Thanks to the Zcash community for the opportunity, and happy end-of-year holidays to everyone

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Zcash Community Grants Meeting Minutes 1/5/2026
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hey guys ! could be awesome to have feeback on the application ! looking forward to see what could be improve or what does zkfied need !

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"Evidence of practical benefit

At least 2 journalism organizations publicly acknowledging that ZKFIED’s Zcash-based anonymity provided stronger source protection compared to traditional platforms (SecureDrop, Signal).

At least one documented case where a whistleblower successfully submitted evidence via Zcash shielded transaction that demonstrates the value of ZIP-225 privacy guarantees."

Hello!

Can you provide confirmation of these statements?

My other question is how did you manage to implement FROST and for what purposes is it used by this platform?

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Hey !

ZKFIED is currently in testnet/development phase. We cannot provide the requested evidence at this time because:
No journalism organizations have publicly acknowledged the platform yet, ZKFIED is deployed on testnet
NEAR has not yet been used by journalism organizations in production.

And for FROST, we have implemented it for decentralized board governance and
whistleblower authorization for removing single points of failure and censorship.
The FROST architecture and workflow are fully implemented. Our current implementation includes placeholder cryptographic operations that will be replaced with production FROST libraries
The integration with production grade FROST cryptography is planned as part of our security audit and mainnet preparation phase !

Feel free if you have any questions :wink:

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Thank you, I have no further questions.

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This is great.

We are entering a more unstable multipolar world with increasing militarisation and conflict. A secure whistleblower platform is a very useful and sought after tool for a populace whose rights are being increasingly eroded.

Have you socials for zkfied?

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Hey! Thanks a lot mate, I really appreciate it.
There aren’t any social media accounts for ZKFIED app yet, but we’re planning to create one soon and will share here once it’s live.

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What’s your shielded address to send you a message?

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zs1yaczfdmflnnlv2yelw3vzvdqd2dy4dxgl97yfnfnddnardw5nqk3vr6z703z969gg805gzhzw5u here u go

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Gmgm everyone !

I wanted to briefly address something we came across recently. We noticed that The Social Mask grant proposal, which aimed to build a new platform around journalism and privacy, was rejected, mainly due to concerns around the difficulty of bootstrapping a brand-new platform, user acquisition challenges, and the risk of spreading efforts too thin at an early stage. These concerns are absolutely valid, and we’ve taken the time to reflect seriously on them.

That said, we want to clearly explain how ZKFIED differs in both scope and execution. Our project is not an abstract platform idea or a launch and hope experiment. We are already building, shipping, and iterating with a concrete, narrow initial use case, and with clear feedback loops. Our focus is on execution first, traction second, and only then expansion, not on trying to solve everything at once.

It’s also important to highlight that both of us come from finance and business studies, and we’ve previously worked on projects where audience targeting, distribution, and gtm strategy were critical to success. We’re very aware that technology alone is not enough; understanding user incentives, channels, and adoption dynamics is just as important, and this is something we’ve already applied in past work.

With ZKFIED specifically, we’re taking a deliberate approach: starting small, validating real usage, and integrating tightly with existing ecosystems rather than trying to replace them. If certain assumptions prove wrong, we’re fully prepared to adapt, whether that means narrowing further, pivoting integration points, or adjusting the product surface to better align with what the ecosystem actually needs.

We fully understand that building new platforms is hard, that’s precisely why we’re committed to going all in, both technically and strategically. This grant is not about funding an idea we might abandon; it’s about accelerating work we are already deeply invested in and intend to pursue long-term.

If there are concerns, suggestions, or alternative directions that could make ZKFIED stronger or more aligned with current priorities, we’re genuinely open to them. We’re here to build, listen, and prove this through sustained execution.

Thanks for the honest feedback in advance, we take that seriously :wink:

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Hey everyone

We’re currently thinking about the next features and upgrades for ZKFIED
If you have any ideas, feedback, or things you’d love to see improved or added, we’d really appreciate your thoughts.

Any input helps

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Thank you for submitting your proposal. Following a thorough review by the ZCG and a period for community feedback on the forum, the committee has decided not to move forward with this proposal.

We sincerely appreciate the time and effort you invested in your application and encourage you to stay involved and continue contributing to the Zcash community.