May 2025 Polling Results Megathread

[Shawn]

Results and statements regarding the future of the lockbox and development funding.

Previous thread:

Voter Info : Polls Close TODAY May 1st

To help community members find information easier, here are links to relevant threads that have instructions about when and how to vote: Key Dates: March 31st: All draft ZIPs for inclusion in polling are due No later than April 17th: Polling begins May 1st: Polling Ends No later than May 5th: Results shared and next steps identified General information about this vote: ZCAP Members: ZAC Members: Coinholder coordination:

[aquietinvestor]

The results from the coinholder polls are in!

Breakdown

Audit

Shielded

Anyone can run the Coin Voting 2.0 audit by downloading the audit tool and entering in the election seed phrase and URL.

Releases · hhanh00/zcash-vote-audit

Question #1

Seed Phrase: hurdle neither win cup special notable code axis despair hour fringe business gadget walk same taxi song medal target shed grocery canyon panic banana

URL: https://zecvote.zone/election/f25446783de9082fa00cb5754a129fedb7f1d61ec6c144252f48077ac641e822

Question #2

Seed Phrase: horror battle road walnut social gain country length lens tonight vehicle brown stomach pass humor random perfect length era curve love island shuffle master

URL:
https://zecvote.zone/election/50b4a832ab4152861ff74a883e10a358f676ac3db5fb340f6a970b13a9e4b920

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Orchard Address:

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Birthday

2894785

[joshs]

The ZAC results are in as well.

59 of 94 members voted.

Alex, Jason, and I met briefly a few minutes ago to review the results. We wanted to share the results with you all as quickly as possible, followed by formal communications in the coming days.

[dismad]

Dev Fund Poll 2025 (ZecHub)

voter list.

Results:

results.

Thank you ZecHub Dao

[dismad]

@aquietinvestor

View Key:

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Birthday

2894785

Here is what I get with @hanh’s new zkool wallet

[ZcashFoundation]

Results from the latest ZCAP poll have just been published. This blog post details the outcome.

Here’s a snapshot of the tally as well.

[dismad]

Some thoughts:

• I still think the zBlock is where we are headed but it’s too early.
• Over 1 million shielded ZEC was used to vote!
• Excited for the next Chapter

I appreciate everyone who participated in the polling,

[joshs]

ECC’s statement on the polling results and next steps.

Zcash Community Shapes the Future of Development Funding

[joshs]

Hi everyone.

The following are the next steps for the implementation of the new funding model. Note that in order to minimize the impact to schedule and complexity, we plan to implement a one-time distribution mechanism in the near term and add a long-term solution with NU7 due to a necessary transaction format change.

1. Full node maintainers (ECC engineers for zcashd, ZF engineers for Zebra) to meet and discuss the design for the one-time disbursement, in particular how it will interact with their respective consensus rule implementations as well as the long-term lockbox disbursement mechanism. This decision will be codified in an update to the draft Lockbox Disbursement ZIP, which will also need to be assigned a ZIP number (the ZIP editors should probably assign that number now.)
2. ZIP editors to review and finalize C&C ZIP in cooperation with its ZIP Authors.
3. ZIP Editors to prepare a NU deployment ZIP. Anticipated NU number to be 6.1.
4. ECC to reach out to proposed Key-Holder Organizations (ECC, Shielded Labs, Zcash Foundation) to understand their requirements, limitations, and preferences for the long-term lockbox disbursement mechanism, including key management, key rotation, coordination mechanisms, etc.
5. Someone from each Key-Holder Org constructs a P2SH key for the one-time disbursement.
6. ECC to begin work on zcashd to implement Option 1 in Lockbox Disbursement ZIP to allow a one-time disbursement & funding stream extensions without a transaction format change. If necessary, additional NUs containing further one-time disbursements from the lockbox in service of C&C can be scheduled if NU7 is delayed and the long-term lockbox disbursement mechanism is thus not available on the timeline needed by the Key-Holder Organizations.

• Estimated time to do the work <= 1 month
• Estimated time to activate >= 3 months - earliest possible mid-Aug

8. Zcash Foundation to draft legal agreements for Key-Holder Organizations per C&C ZIP. This needs to include (among other things) details about vetos.
9. Shielded Labs to draft the process and ZIP for coinholder voting process to be enacted before NU 6.1 is activated.
10. Shielded Labs to schedule and coordinate the first coinholder grant vote.
11. ECC engineering team to draft ZIP for long-term lockbox disbursement mechanism (per Option 1 in Lockbox Disbursement ZIP) - to be included with NU7 due to transaction format changes.

• Estimated net impact to NU7 is 2-3 months.

[pacu]

Thanks for this detail post! As always count with me for anything I can help with.

[zerodartz]

@joshs

Estimated net impact to NU7 is 2-3 months.

i personally feel sad about the amount of delay it is supposed to bring. is it worth it?