# Zcash Community Grants Meeting Minutes 8/31/2026 **URL:** \ **Category:** Community Grants Updates\ **Created:** [September 2, 2026, 7:21pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/zcash-community-grants-meeting-minutes-8-31-2026/57394 "2026-09-02T19:21:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ZCG](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/zcg/32/33712_2.png) [@ZCG](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/ZCG)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2026, 7:21pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/zcash-community-grants-meeting-minutes-8-31-2026/57394/1 "2026-09-02T19:21:23Z")
[Grant Dashboard](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FQ28rDCyRW0TiNxrm3rgD8ai2KGUsXAjPieQmI1kKKg/edit?gid=135980745#gid=135980745) **Zcash Community Grants Committee Google Meet Meeting: August 31, 2026** This is part one of two posts due to the length of the minutes. Second part is first comment below. **Attendance:** - Artkor - Zerodartz - Paul - Hanh - Gguy - Alex (FPF resource, notetaker) **All votes unanimous except ZECsy (Hanh voted against), Zcash Arabia (Zerodartz and Artkor voted against). Paul recused himself from the PGPZ discussion.** **Key Takeaways:** - Open Grants **Open Grant Proposals** - [Constant-Time Hardening and Explicit Timing Semantics for Zcash Rust Cryptography](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/grant-application-constant-time-hardening-and-explicit-timing-semantics-for-zcash-rust-cryptography/56503) - [Test-Effectiveness Audit for Zebra: an independent regression witness for consensus-critical code](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/test-effectiveness-audit-for-zebra-an-independent-regression-witness-for-consensus-critical-code/56989) - [Rvess Pay ZEC to Mobile Money Integration](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/grant-application-rvess-pay-zec-to-mobile-money-integration/56996) - [Zcash WalletConnect Integration](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/grant-application-zcash-walletconnect-integration/57026) - [Reusable Halo2 Verifier Security Testing Infrastructure (ZKCG Reference Implementation)](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/grant-application-reusable-halo2-verifier-security-testing-infrastructure-zkcg-reference-implementation/57115) - [SHPH (Post-Quantum Censorship-Resistant Network Layer)](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/grant-application-shph-high-assurance-post-quantum-network-layer-for-censorship-resistance/57124) - [ZECsy Community Building: 12 Months of Zcash on the Ground](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/grant-application-zecsy-community-building-12-months-of-zcash-on-the-ground/56890/17) Pros: - targets demographics that are usually under-represented Cons: - grant benefits too few people - costs have escalated - Can the grant become Business Dev? Conclusion: - overhead is too large, impact too small - approving 500k for what is essentially local engagement is out of line compared to the local communities. It would not be fair to other grant and would show double standards - Zerodartz: I’ve been going back and forth on this proposal but if we approve for nine months that would make sense to me. They already have some momentum and it does not make sense to me to not have them at any events at all. While the budget is quite large, I think the newer proposal that they revised is more in line with most of our vision and I think they’re doing the right thing. We haven’t seen perfect results quite yet, but I think we could see improvements going forward. I approve for 9 months, but I would say that it’s not the strongest proposal, but worth it to keep them going to events for the near future to then reevaluate the impact. - Hanh: Do you guys have any feedback for the reports they should provide so we can decide whether we continue after 9 months or not. - Gguy: For myself, I’d hope that by 9months this team can show evidence that their efforts have contributed to new communities and groups adopting and spreading real world use of Zcash, not just a wallets installed metric. - Hanh: I would need to see more than the reports they share right now which are like the number of conversations people they meet, what they install. - Zerodartz: I can give some feedback on this Hanh because I was at one of Violet’s small workshops and the way she described Zcash and how to use it, I think it was very simple and easy to understand for people who are not always crypto native. So I think that’s one of their main strengths. - Paul: Both V and Milo are quite technical and they have experience in cryptography so they’re able to speak from that perspective with a lot of authority. I think that just makes them somewhat unique. And on the issue of not being fair to some of the other groups that are asking for funding, you know, I don’t know that there’s any other group asking to do this work of traveling around to these conferences and doing this kind of evangelism at the grassroots level and in particular with these kind of different communities. I think that’s actually quite unique, we don’t have anyone out there targeting a particular community that is a likely user that you know will be using our tools and using Zcash. So I really think that even though you know it may not be perfect and I do I think you’ve done some good analysis and I think that’s very helpful for me I think it’s good enough and especially given my firsthand knowledge and experience having talked to the team at a few events myself I’m still very much in favor of this grant - Gguy: Given the votes today we’ve got one at 9 months and 2 at 12 months. - Zerodartz: I’d prefer nine months. - Artkor: I think nine months is a good middle ground. - Paul: Nine is fine with me. - Approved through nine month milestones Post is too long, continues below. ---
**Author:** ![ZCG](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/zcg/32/33712_2.png) [@ZCG](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/ZCG)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2026, 7:21pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/zcash-community-grants-meeting-minutes-8-31-2026/57394/2 "2026-09-02T19:21:42Z")
Part 2: - [BTCPayServer Multi-Store GraphQL Client](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/btcpayserver-multi-store-support-and-native-graphql-client/57128) - [Pretty Good Policy for Zcash](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/grant-application-pretty-good-policy-for-zcash/57134) - [Zcash Hack-to-Dark At Devcon 8, Mumbai](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/grant-application-zcash-hack-to-dark-during-devcon-8-mumbai/57135) - [Zcash Arabia (August to December 2026)](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/grant-application-zcash-arabia-august-to-december-2026/57170) - [Taking Zcash to the Streets: Education & Real-World Feedback in Türkiye](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/zcash-in-the-real-world-education-and-street-interviews-in-turkiye/57187) - [Recoverify: Pre-Loss Backup Recovery Verification for Zcash Wallets](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/recoverify-backup-recovery-verification-for-zcash-wallets/57220) - [Zcash World, Mumbai (Devcon 8 week)](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/grant-application-zcash-world-mumbai-devcon-8-week/57253) - [Zcash Privacy Literacy Lab Canada](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/grant-application-zcash-privacy-literacy-lab-canada/57256) **Additional Discussion** - State of Zaino (Gguy): ZCG is at a bit of a crossroads right now looking at what software and development needs to be funded in the coming months and years. ZCG is assessing how Zaino fits into that ecosystem. We are aware that the ecosystem is moving very fast and there are lots of alternative projects being released and deployed even in critical infrastructure environments. ZCG will review current software development funding and which infrastructure and projects do not have a current user or provide a value beyond what’s already available. What specific features does Zaino provide to end users that current projects don’t already provide? How can we maximize the impact of development teams? When necessary this might require us to rethink or pivot projects and teams. ZCG will be reaching out to teams to find out the use cases and usefulness of projects like Zaino. Does anyone else have anything to add? ---
**Author:** ![mori](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/mori/32/47280_2.png) [@mori](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/mori)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2026, 7:50pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/zcash-community-grants-meeting-minutes-8-31-2026/57394/3 "2026-09-02T19:50:40Z")
Thanks everyone for taking the time to look at SHPH and discuss it. I really appreciate the honest feedback, I think the concerns about scope and track record are fair, especially for something security-critical which was the main concern ofcourse something evolving cryptography. We’re still pretty early, so I guess the answer is simply to keep building, get more eyes on the code, and build that track record over time. Thanks again for the consideration, and hopefully we’ll come back with a much stronger SHPH in the future. ---
**Author:** ![skye\_yayaya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@skye\_yayaya](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/skye_yayaya)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2026, 10:36pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/zcash-community-grants-meeting-minutes-8-31-2026/57394/4 "2026-09-15T22:36:58Z")
thank you to the ZCG and everyone who took the time to review the proposal and provide feedback. Small update since the meeting: I’ve now completed the Halo2 verifier security-testing work and extracted the reusable testing infrastructure into `zkcg-halo2-test`, which is now publicly available on [crates.io](http://crates.io). The evaluation also surfaced and helped fix two concrete issues in the ZKCG verification path: a circuit constraint gap affecting policy-violating proofs, and a proof-parser boundary issue where trailing bytes were accepted. The full security-testing infrastructure and methodology are now public in the ZKCG repository.