Zcash Community Media Infrastructure & Support | Zk Av Club 2026

Hello Zcashers :high_voltage: :shield:

I just submitted my Zcash Community Grants (@ZCG) proposal and wanted to post here for visibility + community feedback.

Proposal (GitHub): https://github.com/ZcashCommunityGrants/zcashcommunitygrants/issues/162

This is a 2026 proposal focused on continuing Zk Av Club work with the Zcash communities (media + archiving + support), with clear milestones and reporting outlined.

If you have a few minutes, I’m open feedback. Especially the constructive kind :wink:

Comments here or directly on the GitHub issue are both great.

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I hope this grant gets approved, its really important work. You have the rare experience and skill needed to not only teach fundamental skills but also help drive a fundamental truth: we need to further grow the human to human experience.

Ground zero:

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Thank you, Dismad! Zcash has been central to the creation of Zk Av Club and we look forward to a long and prosperous future of mutual support for improving and spreading privacy education.

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The Audiovisual Club is a reference point for how to build community ties with other projects beyond Zcash, construct an audiovisual memory, and help create and understand the narratives that exist around Zcash.

Understanding how we see ourselves, how we evolve, and how others see us is a way to shape who we are as a privacy-oriented community.

Zk Av Club adds value by generating innovative strategies to help build global communities in the blockchain sector, spreading the message of Zcash in innovative ways regardless of physical, cultural, or linguistic boundaries.

On the other hand, it provides support for events and helps produce an audiovisual library for Zcash.

I believe it is essential to continue supporting this project because of all the value it has added and proposes to continue adding.

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Thank you for being a part of this journey with me, @yoditar :high_voltage:
:shield: Only together can our communities truly thrive!

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I support this proposal and I hope it gets approved!

When looking for a place to publish our video demos for the Zenith wallet (that is not a corporate walled garden), it took some time to find a PeerTube instance that was both open to new channels and willing to post crypto content.

Having a platform for the community where our content can be shared without demanding you log in and disable your ad blockers would be a huge benefit.

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Thanks for that support, friend @pitmutt …**

The Purpose** (from a personal perspective)
This project exists to share educational knowledge freely, accessibly, and ethically, eliminating technological, economic, and bureaucratic barriers. We believe that knowledge should circulate, not be locked away.

Fundamental Principles
Open Access
Viewing content requires no accounts or registration.
Learning should not depend on digital identities or commercial platforms.

Free Knowledge
Prioritize content with open licenses (Creative Commons).
Promote the reuse, adaptation, and redistribution of educational materials.

Decentralization
Reject dependence on a single infrastructure or authority.
Commit to federated and replicable networks that strengthen community resilience.

Privacy and Care
No tracking of users.
No collection of unnecessary data.
Digital security is part of community care.

Education as a Common Good
Content is not optimized for clicks or artificial retention.
Pedagogical, cultural, and social value is prioritized.

Community before platform
Technology serves the community, not the other way around.

We are not a social network.

We are not a monetization platform.

We are not a repository without editorial criteria.

We don’t compete for attention; instead, we offer a space for learning.

Commitment
Our commitment to what we want:
Ad-free.
Surveillance-free.

Open to collaboration.

Sustainable through community.

Our responsibility:
Documenting the infrastructure.

Facilitating others learning to replicate the system.

Key principle:
Avoiding “locked-up knowledge.”
No selling data.

No advertising.

This proposal does not seek indefinite growth,
but rather to take root, replicate, and nurture shared knowledge.

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We support this proposal.
We believe Zk Av Club will continue to add real value to the Zcash ecosystem.
Wishing you success on the road to 2026 and beyond. :raising_hands:

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Thank you @pitmutt :raised_fist: Peertube offers many freedoms to Zcash community content creators and viewers! Also, we’ll have a place to send newcomers for videos about Zcash — by Zcashers (as opposed to the bull$hit that comes back in a YT search nowadays)

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Robmar, I couldn’t have said it better myself. Thank you for being the person you are and for bringing all of it to big show!

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Thanks, @Batuhan! Looking forward to another great year of supporting Zcash with real community media — content, infrastructure, and knowledge.

Here’s to an electrifying 2026 :high_voltage: :shield:

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@ryan.taylor ZCG has voted to approve this proposal. Congratulations!

ZCG requests that you provide monthly updates via the forum in this thread.

Please lookout for a Forum DM from FPF with important grant information. Thanks.

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Congratulations !

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Congrats! :tada:

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Wow! This is a great way to start the new year. We have good times in store for y’all.

Thank you @ZCG for your continued trust and dedication to so many Zcash communities around the world. And, to you, dear reader: I’ve been around for a while, seen some crazy stuff, and can say for sure that, as messy and dramatic as it may get around here sometimes, we’ve got a good thing going with the human layer of this network. Make no mistake about it.

Onward, together!

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