Hi everyone — I’m excited to share that the PGPZ Community has now started sending its first policy updates.
This morning, PGPZ subscribers received two initial updates:
1. PGPZ Weekly Policy Memo: Week of June 8, 2026
This memo covers the House Ways and Means Committee’s digital-asset tax hearing, discussion drafts on de minimis relief and mining/staking rewards, the DCG fly-in focused on financial privacy, CLARITY Act advocacy, and continuing exchange and custody access issues for privacy-preserving assets under EU AMLR and MiCA.
Read it here:
2. PGPZ Special Update: U.S. Digital Asset Policy and Zcash
This special update looks at the first half of 2026 and what recent U.S. digital asset policy developments may mean for the Zcash ecosystem. It covers market structure, tax, agency guidance, banking access, AML and sanctions risk, intermediary access, and the ongoing need to distinguish legitimate privacy from illicit opacity.
Read it here:
The goal of PGPZ is to provide timely policy analysis and shared context for the Zcash community, especially as policymakers make decisions that will affect privacy-preserving digital cash, compliance-capable infrastructure, lawful access, and the future of financial privacy.
A few themes from these first updates:
• Digital-asset policy is becoming more constructive overall, but many of the issues most important to Zcash remain unresolved.
• Tax proposals such as de minimis relief and mining/staking treatment could matter directly for ZEC use and adoption.
• AML, sanctions, banking access, and intermediary risk remain central policy challenges for privacy-preserving assets.
• Policymakers need accurate explanations of Zcash, including transparent transaction modes, shielded transactions, and selective-disclosure capabilities.
• The Zcash community has an important role to play in correcting inaccurate “privacy coin ban” narratives and explaining why financial privacy is a legitimate public-interest concern.
Membership in the PGPZ Community is free. You can join here to receive future updates directly:
Feedback is very welcome. I’d be grateful for thoughts from the Zcash community on what policy issues, resources, explainers, or advocacy materials would be most useful going forward.