Zcash Community Grants Committee Google Meet Meeting: February 17, 2025
[Minutes taken by FPF]
Attendance:
- Artkor
- Brian
- GGuy
- Jason
- Zerodartz
- Alex (FPF resource, notetaker)
Key Takeaways:
- Open Grants
- Fix BTCPay Zcash Plugin
- Withdrawn by applicant. No further action required.
- “Zcash Privacy Academy” Course
- Too early to vote.
- Fix BTCPay Zcash Plugin
Open Grant Proposals
- Fix BTCPay Zcash Plugin
- There was a vibrant discussion on the Forum, there were a lot of questions raised about the proposal and in the end, the applicant withdrew the grant request. Memorializing that this grant has been withdrawn and there is no further action required by ZCG.
- “Zcash Privacy Academy” Course
- This grant request is for $7,000. This project aims to create an educational online course that will help users: understand financial privacy and its importance, learn how Zcash privacy mechanisms work (zk-SNARKs, shielded transactions, viewing keys), and how to use Zcash securely in real-world scenarios (trading, donations, payroll payments, etc.). Participants will earn ZEC grants or vouchers as rewards for completing tests with the goal of increasing adoption and privacy practices for Zcash users. The applicant posted to the forum more than seven days ago but they didn’t post on GitHub until today (review period starts when the grant request is posted to GitHub) so it’s too early for ZCG to vote. Members were asked to share their impressions.
- Gguy: Considering ZCG’s historical record on grants like this, we haven’t really seen any meaningful outcomes. So, unless something was demonstrated to me that showed that this was going to be different, which I haven’t seen so far, I’m leaning towards not funding this proposal. I’d like to hear from anyone in the community if they think this grant will be different and is something that should be funded. Let us know.
- Jason: I agree with Gguy, I’m leaning towards not funding this request. I’d like to see them request funding via ZecHub and see how they view the project.
- Brian: I agree with both Gguy and Jason.
- Zerodartz: I agree that ZecHub should consider this project for funding. But, the budget seems a bit high especially considering recent market conditions.
- Artkor: I need to consider this grant further, however, I am also concerned about market conditions.
Brainstorm Session Follow-Ups
- Brainstorm Session Follow Ups
- Saas Development Initiative (SDI) for Building a Zcash Economy
- Note that this request hasn’t been posted to GitHub so ZCG is providing initial thoughts on this grant idea as per the proposer’s request.
- There was a free flowing discussion that focused on the following points:
- The actual output of the proposal isn’t clear to several ZCG members.
- $50,000 seems high based on ZCG’s understanding of the grant’s outputs.
- The general consensus would be a “no” vote based on the information provided by the prospective grantee thus far.
- Ledger
- ZCG had a call with Zondax and ZF to discuss potential next steps for getting Ledger to fix existing issues and implement a future Ledger Live implementation.
- ZCG stated that the Ledger solution for shielded ZEC is not very user-friendly and is difficult for other wallets to integrate.
- ZCG acknowledged Zondax was doing the best they could given Ledger’s bureaucracy and the perceived lack of Ledger’s willingness to work with the Zcash community.
- ZCG discussed prioritizing the work that needs to be completed, focusing on fixing the pain points with transparent and then discussing with the community how to prioritize next steps, if any.
- Zondax is preparing to submit a proposal to ZCG
- Tor
- Arti grant completed.
- ZCG to reach out to TOR to discuss better coordination and mutually beneficial actions/partnerships since the TOR and Zcash missions are so complimentary.
- Least Authority
- ZCG discussed which projects should be prioritized for audit in the coming weeks as the docket is pretty full.
- ZCG to discuss prioritization with Least Authority.
- Saas Development Initiative (SDI) for Building a Zcash Economy
