Gleyo Update - From Building to Seeing It Used 
It’s been a while since I shared an update here.
The past couple of weeks have been pretty intense. A lot of my time has gone into working directly with communities, supporting programmes running on Gleyo, fixing things as they come up, and figuring out what Gleyo needs to become more useful beyond my own initial ideas for the product.
And honestly, the biggest change since my last update has been seeing Gleyo actually start to become part of how communities operate.
We’re now seeing communities use Gleyo for things like onboarding, education, developer programmes, quests, and community engagement.
That shift has been really encouraging.
Gleyo started as something I built during the ZecHub Hackathon because I thought there was a better way to help communities onboard and retain people.
Now I’m getting to see that idea tested in the real world.
Proof of Privacy
The recent Proof of Privacy campaign was another major milestone for Gleyo.
The campaign brought a significant number of people through the platform and generated 125 Zodl downloads associated with the campaign experience.
There were also a lot of useful things I learned from watching how participants actually used Gleyo throughout the campaign.
I’ll leave the full campaign results to the Proof of Privacy team when they publish their own update, but I’m really happy with what the campaign has shown from the Gleyo side.
Developer onboarding
We’re also seeing Gleyo being used in a completely different context through the Zcash Privacy Developers Residency in Ghana.
Participants are now using Gleyo for practical developer activities, moving from learning into actually completing tasks and submitting work.
This is particularly interesting to me because it shows that the same infrastructure can support different stages of someone’s journey into Zcash.
Someone can discover Zcash → learn about it → participate in a community → complete practical tasks → and eventually become a contributor.
That’s increasingly the direction I’m thinking about for Gleyo.
What’s changing for me
When I first started building Gleyo, most of the questions were:
“Can I build this?”
Now the questions are becoming:
“Can communities actually use this effectively?”
“Can someone who knows nothing about Zcash understand where to start?”
“Can we turn a new user into someone who keeps participating?”
“Can communities run their own programmes without needing me involved in every step?”
Those are much more interesting problems to solve.
And the answers are becoming clearer with every community that uses Gleyo.
There is still a lot to improve, especially around reliability, security, infrastructure, and making the platform easier for communities to operate independently.
But we’re getting much closer to the product I originally imagined.
Gleyo is no longer just something I’m building. It’s something people are starting to use.
Still early.
Still building. 
More soon.