Wednesday, September 2, 2026
The forum is buzzing at the exact right moment — NU7 votes live, ZEC up 82% in August, and someone finally made a wishlist thread like it’s Santa season for privacy nerds.
THE BIG STORIES
- ZCAP Poll Now Open: NU7 Scope - The Zcash Foundation’s ZCAP poll is live and running concurrently with the coinholder vote, both closing September 14th — this is the governance moment that settles what NU7 actually becomes, so if you have a voice, now is genuinely the time to use it.
- Global Ambassador Elzz August 2026 Report - Hot off the press (just 5 hours ago), Elzz’s August report spotlights #ZcashClass26, a gamified online onboarding campaign blending community recruitment with live education — this is the kind of grassroots energy the ecosystem actually needs.
- Community Feature Wishlist: A Thread - Someone opened a running wishlist for features community members and devs want to see built in Zcash — it’s an open invitation for builders to self-assign, and a rare chance to actually shape the roadmap from the bottom up.
- Seer Prediction Markets: Forecasting Q3 Retroactive Grant Approvals - Someone spun up a prediction market on which projects will get funded in the Q3 retroactive grants round (review period runs through September 16th) — wild, meta, and honestly a clever way to surface community conviction before the votes are cast.
THE PULSE
With ZEC having surged 82% in August and the NU7 governance vote live, the forum has the rare energy of a community that feels like it’s winning and has real decisions to make at the same time. The retroactive grants review period is deep in session, so expect the Q3 grant threads to keep heating up this week.
WATCH LIST
- NU7 Coinholder Vote (Active Through Sept. 14) - The vote to decide NU7’s scope — resurrected after the Orchard counterfeiting bug killed the last attempt — closes in under two weeks, and the debate over whether a coinholder poll even constitutes a binding governance mechanism is very much still live on page 2 of that thread.