Grant Proposal: Cycles AI - A Shielded Gateway to Bring ZEC to DeFi

Hey Zcash community!

Our team at Daltonic LLC has submitted a new grant proposal to build Cycles AI: A Shielded DeFi Gateway for Zcash.

Our mission is to solve a major challenge for Zcash users: accessing the DeFi ecosystem without compromising privacy. Currently, moving ZEC from a shielded address to platforms like Uniswap is a complex and de-anonymizing process that often requires centralized exchanges.

Our proposed solution is a user-friendly gateway that will allow anyone to send ZEC from their shielded address (z-addr) and seamlessly receive Wrapped ZEC (wZEC) in their EVM wallet. To demonstrate the gateway’s power and immediately drive utility, we will integrate it with an AI-powered trading bot designed to increase liquidity and activity for wZEC.

We believe this infrastructure will be a critical step in strengthening Zcash’s interoperability and making ZEC a more liquid and useful asset across the entire Web3 space.

You can view the full grant application here: Grant Application - Cycles AI: A Shielded DeFi Gateway for Zcash · Issue #75 · ZcashCommunityGrants/zcashcommunitygrants · GitHub

We are incredibly excited about the potential of this project and would be grateful for your review, feedback, and questions.

Thank you for your support!

Darlington Gospel
contact@daltonicllc.com

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@DaltonicLLC 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.

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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