# Zcash East Africa Developer Workshop Session **URL:** \ **Category:** Applications\ **Created:** [November 3, 2026, 11:20pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/zcash-east-africa-developer-workshop-session/58834 "2026-11-03T23:20:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Z.cash.EastAfrica](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/z.cash.eastafrica/32/45074_2.png) [@Z.cash.EastAfrica](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/Z.cash.EastAfrica)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2026, 11:20pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/zcash-east-africa-developer-workshop-session/58834/1 "2026-11-03T23:20:27Z")
Hi everyone 👋 Zcash East Africa has submitted a ZCG grant application for a **3-day in-person developer build session in Nairobi, followed by a public community demo day**. We’d love your feedback. 📄 **Full application:** [GitHub issue link](https://github.com/ZcashCommunityGrants/zcashcommunitygrants/issues/536) ### Why this, why now Over the past months, Zcash East Africa has focused on users and merchants: community meetups in Kenya, an event in Uganda, Africa Blockchain Festival 2026, and onboarding merchants to accept shielded ZEC. Alongside that, our community has quietly started building: - Community members integrated Zcash into **KuvarSend** , giving users a local on- and off-ramp for ZEC. - Another member is building a **shielded wallet**. Shielded support is done, and it’s being polished now. This month we’re running our **first official developer meetup (virtual)**. This session is the next step: taking a selected group of developers from introduction to shipping. ### What we’re proposing **Before the event: Community product call 🗳** We’ll ask the community what products they’d love to see built on Zcash. Developers then choose from these ideas, so they build for real local needs. **Days 1–3: Build session (20 developers)** - Day 1: Zcash fundamentals, wallet setup, a first shielded transaction, and dev environment setup - Day 2: Guided building across three tracks: payments and merchant tools, developer tooling, and privacy use cases for African users - Day 3: Ship, test, document and publish to public repos About **8 places are reserved for developers from outside Kenya** (Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and others), with travel covered. Participants build against a **hosted, synced node** , so nobody has to sync on their laptop. \*\*Day 4: Community Demo Day \*\* Teams present to community members, merchants and guests, in person and **livestreamed**. People whose ideas were built get to see the result and give feedback. ### Rewards that keep people building The top 3 teams get **Build rewards in shielded ZEC** , paid in three milestones: - 40% at demo day - 30% after 2 weeks of continued development - 30% after 4 weeks, once the project is deployed We’d rather fund projects that keep going than demos that stop on Day 4. ### Success looks like - 30+ community product ideas submitted - 6+ projects shipped with public repos - 40+ community members at demo day - 3+ projects still active 30 days later - A full public report here on the forum We’d really appreciate feedback, especially on the curriculum, the reward structure, and what you’d like to see East African developers build. If you’re a Zcash developer who’d like to join as a volunteer mentor or speaker (in person or remote), please reply below! 💛 **Privacy • Community • Financial Freedom**