Milestone 7 Report — July 2026
Hi Zcashers 
July Overview
July was a month of overlap, recovery, and follow-through for Zk Av Club. After Berlin Blockchain Week, much of the event crew moved almost directly into DWeb Camp. Now we’re securing recordings, organizing source material, following up with contributors, closing out expenses and documentation, and making room for the crews to understand what actually happened.
At the same time, the rest of the club kept moving. The Workshops team delivered three sessions, including two on Omeka S that left us with a working community archive instance. Post-production continued through Zk Av Club and ZecHub, while a late-June Berlin recording was published directly by the people who made it. Submissions for the Zcash Playlist Challenge also closed. Winners will be announced next month.
Different people were able to carry different parts of the work forward, even while the event crew was stretched across two major activations. The club is beginning to hold several kinds of work at once.
We aren’t ready to give a full account of either activation yet. Berlin changed how we think about crew roles, source-media stewardship, and what it takes to keep a large Recording Station moving. DWeb Camp gave us a chance to test that evolving model in a very different environment. Both deserve more reflection than we could give them while moving directly from one production into the next.
DWeb Camp Recording Station
Zk Av Club returned to DWeb Camp with a clearer crew structure and a better sense of what the Recording Station needs around it.
The activation is complete, and the source material is now being organized and sorted.
We’re holding back from a full assessment until the crew has had time to recap the experience together. A separate field report will cover what we made, which parts of the production model held up, how the camp differed from Berlin Blockchain Week, and what we’d change next time.
One part of DWeb Camp we can share now is a feature created by Arikia and the team at CTRL+X: a two-page center spread about Zk Av Club in Samizdat Dezentral, the first DWeb newspaper.
The spread traces a history much larger than this latest activation. Its photographs move from Zcon Sessions in Barcelona and the planning circles at DWeb Camp Brazil in 2023, through the Migration Station at DWeb Camp California in 2024, the full Recording Station at DevConnect Buenos Aires in 2025, and our work at Berlin Blockchain Week 2026.
Together, the images show how Zk Av Club grew from the Zcash and DWeb communities and gradually took shape as a community archive practice, a public-goods media project, and an ongoing experiment in free and open-source media.
Massive gratitude to Arikia and the entire CTRL+X team for creating the spread and giving Zk Av Club such a generous place in the first DWeb newspaper. Thanks as well to @zerodartz, @autotunafish, and @j32804, whose on-location photography across these activations made it possible to tell the club’s story in images.
Post-Production and Releases
July included one long-form Recording Station release from Zk Av Club and two collaborations released by ZecHub.
Fork Around and Find Out: DAOs, Network States, and Self-Governance in Crypto
Wassim Alsindi, Nick Almond, and Fatemeh Fannizadeh explore DAOs, network states, “code is law,” and how communities govern themselves in practice.
Collaborations with ZecHub
Harry Halpin on Nym, Zcash, and Network-Level Privacy — Dark Prague
Harry Halpin discusses why private digital money also needs protection at the network layer and how Nym and Zcash approach different parts of that problem.
DappCon: ZK Loyalty & FHE with GiraeffleAeffle
Max introduces ZK Loyalty, an anonymous loyalty program designed to help small businesses reward customers without collecting unnecessary personal data.
Creator Publication from Late June
At the end of June, @readymouse and @fabacab also published their Blockspäti recording through their own channel.
Violet and Justine with ZK AV Club at Berlin Blockchain Week 2026
Violet and Justine discuss financial independence, banned or frozen payment accounts, and how privacy tools can support people excluded from conventional financial services.
This is another good example of the Recording Station working as source-media infrastructure. A recording doesn’t always need to be published by Zk Av Club to become a meaningful community output.
Zk Av Club Workshops
Workshops coordinators @aurabritosm and @gordonestv kept the program moving through July. The month’s workshops included two sessions on Omeka S community archiving and an introduction to the ZODL wallet.
The program also received encouraging feedback following June’s Affine workshop. One participant wrote:
“Hasta ahora vamos por la primera sesión pero me encantó la potencialidad de la herramienta, sobre todo a nivel colaborativo.”
“We’ve only had the first session so far, but I loved the tool’s potential, especially for collaboration.”
Preparing and running the workshops this month also helped refine how we produce them. The team strengthened moderator preparation, developed better contingency plans for connectivity problems, and created a dedicated Workshop Tech role for sessions involving self-hosted software. The new role is already making preparation more structured and helping us take on technically ambitious workshops.
The Omeka S series left the club with a working instance at archive.zkav.club. It currently holds demo content, which we’ll remove as we begin adding actual Recording Station artifacts to the free and open-source media archive.
We also launched a monthly public program update call to share changes, gather feedback, and document how the program develops. The call will take place on the third Tuesday of each month at 15:30 UTC.
Introducing Omeka S: Community Archiving
An introduction to using the open-source, self-hostable Omeka S platform to preserve, manage, and share community archives.
Onboarding to Omeka S: Establishing Community Archiving Workflows
A hands-on follow-up focused on editing metadata, contributing archival material, and testing community-defined workflows in a deployed Omeka S archive.
Learn to Use ZODL
An introduction to using the privacy-first ZODL mobile wallet to send, receive, and protect ZEC.
PeerTube, watchz.cash and the Zcash Playlist Challenge
The submission period for the Zcash Playlist Challenge has ended.
Later in August, we’ll announce the winners and publish our selection of the Top 25 Most Important Zcon Presentations. That selection will seed watchz.cash with a curated first collection of Zcon presentations.
The full Zcon video history will also be backed up to Internet Archive. We currently expect that work to happen in September.
Grant Status Snapshot
| Area | Where things stand |
|---|---|
| Recording Station | The DWeb Camp activation is complete, and the source material is being organized and sorted. The Berlin Blockchain Week and DWeb Camp field reports are still to come. |
| Post-production and releases | July brought one Zk Av Club release and two collaborations with ZecHub. A late-June Blockspäti recording was also published through the creators’ own channel. |
| Free and open-source media archive | Source-material organization continued, and the working Omeka S instance is being prepared for actual Recording Station artifacts. It still contains demo content. |
| Zk Av Club Workshops | Three July workshops were completed. The program introduced the Workshop Tech role, improved contingency planning for connectivity problems, and launched a monthly public update. |
| Community Fund | The fund continued supporting event production, workshops, post-production, and contributor roles. A report on its first six months is planned for August. |
| PeerTube / watchz.cash | Playlist Challenge submissions have closed. The winners and Top 25 Most Important Zcon Presentations are planned for August, with the Top 25 becoming the first collection on watchz.cash. |
| Public outputs dashboard | The dashboard is on hold indefinitely and isn’t part of our near-term plans. |
What Remains Open
Most of the open work is follow-through from July and the two recent activations:
- continuing to organize and sort the DWeb Camp source material;
- recapping DWeb Camp with the crew;
- completing the Berlin Blockchain Week and DWeb Camp field reports;
- preparing the Omeka S instance and archive workflows for actual Recording Station artifacts;
- reviewing the July Workshops cycle with the coordinators.
We’ll keep this work moving at a pace that gives the people and material involved the attention they need.
August Focus
In August, we’ll turn July’s activity into documentation, releases, and infrastructure the club can keep using.
We’ll focus on:
- continuing the follow-through from Berlin Blockchain Week and DWeb Camp;
- announcing the Playlist Challenge winners and publishing the Top 25 Most Important Zcon Presentations as the first collection on watchz.cash;
- preparing the free and open-source media archive to begin receiving actual Recording Station artifacts;
- keeping post-production and Workshops moving while publishing the first six-month Community Fund activity report.
Gratitude
Thank you to the DWeb Camp organizers, the Recording Station crew, Workshop contributors, audio/video editors, ZecHub collaborators, and everyone who supported the work over the last month.
A very special thank you to @robmarn, whose responsibility, consistency, and care strengthened both the Berlin Blockchain Week and DWeb Camp activations immensely.
I’m personally grateful for what everyone brought and for the flexibility and care that kept different parts of the club moving through a particularly gnarly stretch.
July closed a demanding period of field production. We’re now sorting through what we made, completing the documentation we owe, and preparing for what comes next (#zcon).
Thanks to Zcash Community Grants and the wider Zcash community for continuing to support this work.