Hanh for ZCG (December 2025)

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Good point. Appreciate your perspective.

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Thank you for participating, Hanh. We have crossed paths here in the forum over many years.

I believe there are three elements for a successful ZCG composition:

  • Relationship/Partnerships: Being able to reach out to the ecosystem, other projects, broader community, etc, for multiple reasons.
  • Technical Knowledge: We already see so many low-quality proposals, and as the budget increases in value, this will be an additional vector attack on our community of elaborate scams trying to extract money from it. The first barrier is understanding the projects and the capacity of people to do them well.
  • Capital Allocation Experience: The point Iā€™m most worried about. Deploying (hundreds of?) millions of dollars sustainably, with results, and structuring payments and deliverables to de-risk the lockbox will be hard work. It might even be a full-time role, and I hope the community takes this seriously, and not a popularity contest.

Iā€™m happy to know we are well covered in the second point (which, as someone with a CS background, is obviously very close to heart). I hope the rest of the candidates can help support the other two pillars to the same quality, and that this doesnā€™t become a popularity contest. Anyway, to not prolong this too much, you will be a great addition to it.

Cheers!

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Hanh has been bringing technical excellence and Linux-like OSS stewardship to Zcash for years. I canā€™t think of a person more fitting for bringing technical oversight for grant decisions. He knows Zcash in and out better than anyone.

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i dont always agree with everything Hanh says or does but he is a very good developer and listens to feedback and has loads of Zcash building experience so it would be great to see him on ZCG also

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Hello Hanh ,

How do you evaluate the role of local communities within the Zcash ecosystem? In your view, how critical are local communities for Zcashā€™s global growth, awareness building, and adoption? Do you see this as a driving force for progress, and how seriously do you personally take this aspect?

If you are elected to ZCG, what will be your perspective on proposals focused on local community development? Which criteria will you prioritize when reviewing such proposals? For example, how will you approach factors like sustainability, community impact, measurable outcomes, cost-effectiveness, transparency, and alignment with the broader ecosystem? Additionally, how do you believe local community initiatives should contribute long-term value to Zcash?

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Greetings, Hanh! Congratulations on this nomination.

How can developers within Zcash get closer to local communities to gather all the information, concerns, and suggestions that arise and thus improve their work as developers?

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Local communities are important to Zcash specially if we aim to make it a global mean of payment. We need merchants so that we understand the challenges of making it usable. I think Bitcoin was not very successful in this area and it became just a storage of value.
Now, the issue is that grassroot movements are not profitable. Funding an event for a few dozen attendees is not cost effective.
I think this is when we need to get much better

  • at building localized online communities
  • creating a shared set of resources (posters, brochures, use cases)
  • merchandise
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Hanh should be on ZCG

but he should not be allowed to vote on projects that pay him direct or indirectly

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Hi @hanh Iā€™m excited to see you throw you hat in the ring!

As many have already stated and as is obvious to anyone who has looked around the Zcash space @hanh has been a key contributor to the space over the years. For example @spectre considers your placement on the ZCG to be a ā€œno-brainerā€ and @silentZcollector tells us that:

My question is about your commitment to privacy.

Would you say that the purpose of Zcash is to build a technology where the privacy of transactions are 100% entirely, and without exception, under the control of the 2 participants in the transaction?

Where, of course, I assume we all agree that someone who controls their own transactions necessarily has the ability to tell others what they have done.

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By without exception, are you suggesting the removal of transparent addresses?

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The use of transparent addresses (if it exists) MUST be:

though I am happy to see the continuing deprecation of their use.

My concern, however, is not about transparent addresses but about the position you took at ZconV that there should be protocol-level collaboration with ā€œauthoritiesā€:

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I see. Allow me to elaborate on that point. I was referring to situations like non-algorithmic stablecoins. The US government will require the tracking and, likely, the ability to freeze assets too. For low amounts, stablecoins may fly under the radar, but we should be considering large amounts if we want them to be usable.
In this case, we only have 2 options: Abandon the idea of having shielded stablecoins, or offer the ability to expose the subset of information required by the government.

It must be limited to what is absolutely necessary and must not affect the rest of the protocol.

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Nice one, Hanh. Your track record kinda speaks for itself. Ywallet and Warp Sync basically carried the ecosystem when things got rough, and that level of hands-on protocol knowledge is rare.

Good to see you running - ZOMG definitely needs people who can cut through hype and spot solid engineering.