After spending time reading discussions across the forum, one thing I’ve noticed is that people often talk about different goals for the future of Zcash.
Some focus on privacy.
Some focus on adoption.
Some focus on infrastructure.
Others focus on governance, education, wallets, or new applications.
It made me curious:
What does success for Zcash look like five years from now?
What would need to happen for you to look back and say:
“Yes, Zcash achieved what it set out to do.”
I’m interested in hearing perspectives from long-time community members, builders, researchers, grant recipients, and anyone passionate about the ecosystem.
In 5 years, I’d like to see people actually using Zcash, not just holding it. Privacy should be easy, wallets should work well, and there should be an active community building around it.
If Zcash becomes the go-to option for private digital payments, I’d call that a win.
People want to make money, but they forget one thing: privacy is very important. I’m sure many people don’t know that Zcash is a privacy project; they only know it as $ZEC. But I’m sure that in 5 years, many people will know Zcash better.
More people would be aware and actively seeking privacy and that Zcash would come to mind in terms of a valued asset for spending. With that change in mindset, Zcash hopefully would be incorporated in more projects for everyday use cases instead of wallet-only products.
I really like your point about people actively seeking privacy rather than simply viewing Zcash as another crypto asset.
I also agree that real-world use cases are important. In many crypto communities, people know the ticker, but they don’t always understand the problem the project is trying to solve.
If more people begin to value privacy itself, I think Zcash naturally becomes part of that conversation.
The challenge is helping people move from knowing ZEC to understanding Zcash.
Agree, educating the masses takes the longest and prob one of the next hardest thing. But recent macro developments seem to help it along, e.g. vpn ban, lots of kyc, take downs…
Honestly, I just got into zcash recently, But for me, I would like to see people spend zec on day to day items, I can go to my regular groceries store and just spend zec, Currently, where I’m from, there isn’t much adoption and I can only spend on online services that accept zec.
In five years, I’d love to see Zcash as the go to for everyday financial privacy not a niche tool, but something ordinary people use without thinking twice.
