Voter Info : Polls Close TODAY May 1st

[Shawn]

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:

Community Polling on Funding Model ZIPs

Dear Zcash Community, We have important decisions ahead that will significantly impact Zcash’s governance and sustainability. After many months of calls for proposals and discussions, we are at a critical decision point. Collaboration and cooperation among Zcash organizations and ecosystem partners is essential for determining the path forward. In this spirit, @Alex_ZF (interim Executive Director of the Zcash Foundation), @aquietinvestor (Executive Director of Shielded Labs), and I have been m…

ZCAP Members:

ZCAP Poll Opened: Dev Fund Poll (2025)

Hello Zcash community, A new ZCAP (Zcash Community Advisory Panel) poll opened today, and we want to ensure all ZCAP members are informed and prepared to participate. This poll is part of our ongoing efforts to provide the Zcash community with a meaningful voice in decisions about the future of Zcash. As always, the results of ZCAP polls are non-binding but serve as an important signal to ecosystem participants, funders, and developers. In November 2025, the current Dev Fund established under…

ZAC Members:

ZAC Poll Opened: Dev Fund Poll 2025

The Electric Coin Company has opened a new poll for ZAC (Zcash Ad Hoc Caucus) members to provide input on the future of Zcash funding beyond November 2025, when the current Dev Fund is set to expire. This poll is part of a broader ecosystem-wide effort to understand where the Zcash community stands on proposals to renew or sunset the Dev Fund. While results are non-binding, they offer essential guidance to developers and other ecosystem participants. What’s in this poll? One question asks w…

Coinholder coordination:

Coinholder Polling on Governance and Funding

The Coinholder Poll Is Now Open In November 2025, the current Dev Fund established under ZIP 1015 will expire, and 100% of block rewards will be allocated to miners. This poll is intended to assess whether there is community consensus to create a new Dev Fund and corresponding funding model, and if so, which proposal is preferred. This coinholder poll contains two questions: The first asks which Dev Fund proposal you support, or whether you believe the Dev Fund should end and all block rewar…

[Shawn]

Please let me know if I missed anything and I will update the OP.

This thread is only for info, please post any questions in the relevant threads.

[peacemonger]

Is there a single post with clear step-by-step instructions on how to participate in coinholder voting?

[Shawn]

@peacemonger

clear step-by-step instructions on how to participate in coinholder voting?

I believe they are working out some the bugs in the process. CC: @aquietinvestor

[aquietinvestor]

Please see the following post:

Coinholder Polling on Governance and Funding

The Coinholder Poll Is Now Open In November 2025, the current Dev Fund established under ZIP 1015 will expire, and 100% of block rewards will be allocated to miners. This poll is intended to assess whether there is community consensus to create a new Dev Fund and corresponding funding model, and if so, which proposal is preferred. This coinholder poll contains two questions: The first asks which Dev Fund proposal you support, or whether you believe the Dev Fund should end and all block rewar…

[badenglishtea]

Hi is it possible to still vote here. I’ve recently bought quite a lot of Zcash on Kraken. I am in process of moving my funds to a Zashi wallet. Will I be able to vote from that wallet by May 1st? What is process?

[spectre]

Am I eligible to participate?

To be eligible to participate, you must have moved ZEC into the Orchard pool or refreshed your notes during the registration period that ran from Block 2,663,885, which occurred around September 30, 2024, to Block 2,892,057, which occurred on Wednesday, April 16 around 11:59 PM UTC.

Unfortunately too late, because you had to have your coins in the Orchard Pool within the period specified above.

[daira]

Just noticed this: Cargo.toml refers to zcash-vote and orchard with 7-hex-character commit ids · Issue #72 · hhanh00/zcash-vote-app · GitHub

[daira]

Hmm, I nearly broke the voting circuit, but it held up by luck.

Is this range check correct? - HackMD

Daira-Emma Hopwood ze/hir

[skyl]

I should be able to support none of the proposals and still proceed?

Can someone do me a favor and tell me which proposal is the closest to “continue the lockbox and wait” ?

[hanh]

well, I knew this particular thing, so it is not entirely by luck. But I do agree with the general sentiment.

[decentralistdan]

IMO, a vote for zBloc most closely aligns with your criteria as it would take the most time to implement both the social layer structure & distribution mechanism

[ebfull]

Is the Cargo.lock’s full hash not authoritative here? (Separately, it would surprise me if cargo did not notice an attempted collision between an abbreviated hash and a hash in the lockfile and tell the user, but I don’t think that would be necessary here.)

[outgoing.doze]

@skyl

Can someone do me a favor and tell me which proposal is the closest to “continue the lockbox and wait” ?

Not being convinced at all by the lack of legitimacy of this vote / poll (whatever @joshs wants to call it at this minute), I have voted with an intent closely following the one you describe. I have picked the option to end the dev fund and I’ve explained my reasoning. Mainly given C&C is expected to win, the “end the dev fund” option seemed the one closest to “continue the lockbox and wait”.

@decentralistdan

IMO, a vote for zBloc most closely aligns with your criteria as it would take the most time to implement both the social layer structure & distribution mechanism

Given this option will not just be “continue accruing funds and wait”, but spend countless hours implementing a governance solution that currently has very little support, I think it would not just not achieve the intent of @skyl but also lead to a lot of wasted time should this pass (we never know given we still have no idea how the poll will be interpreted).

[skyl]

Watching from a distance, I tend to think the lockbox is working and is just getting started.

1. Removes non-trivial sell pressure, leans towards scarcity, changes perception
2. Creates posterity fund that should be used for marketing (over $1,000,000 worth!)
3. Provokes ideation on cutting edge governance and disbursement mechanisms

IMO, the lockbox experiment should keep running. I would even advocate for expanding it. Instead of disbursing the entirety now, I would rather see inflows larger than outflows. Are any of the choices for a small experimental disbursement from the lockbox? At a glance, it seems like the proposals seek to break the lockbox and discard it? I want to see the lockbox at 200,000 ZEC with ZEC at $100. What a freaking strong coin ZEC could be with such a stable, permanent backing. All things being equal, the more ZEC in the lockbox, the harder it is to get at, the higher the price of ZEC and the stronger the position of the ZEC holder.

What’s the counterargument to this idea?

What’s the urgency to break up the lockbox and disburse the funds?

Apologies if I haven’t taken the time to fully understand all the proposals. I haven’t had a chance to study them.

[outgoing.doze]

If the C&C indeed wins, stakeholders will be in a position to decide whether to spend all of their allotment, or keep some / most in the lockbox. I like the idea of going on a spending diet for a bit. Anyway, until I see proper, legitimate governance, I’ll definitely be voting for a very strict diet.