We are thrilled to announce that we have achieved our 7 milestone of 2024.
Milestone 7 - estimated completion date: 07/31/2024
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Blockchain Rio - Overview by @Iogy & @Minevg
Our team made a great presence on BlockchainRIO, which is Latin America’s largest and leading innovation hub for blockchain technology and digital finance. Their purpose is to be an open and dynamic ecosystem that brings together a diversity of key players from the tokenized economy and the real economy, focused on fostering the ecosystem of innovation, development, digital finance, and compliance, through education and business generation.
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We’ve met two projects about ZK; Tea-fi and Nightly. We’ve discussed a lot about privacy and technologies. Nightly, by the way, recently implemented Halo2, and it was great to talk to someone who also knows about the topic.
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We acted to promote and encourage the download of Zashi, always explaining to the community that it is an official product of the ECC.
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We informed them about transactions and provided a complete onboarding about the pools and memos, giving away prizes to those who recognized the project and marking our presence at events with the team to maintain Zcash’s visibility in the crypto community in Brazil.
We connected with community members to hold spaces and talks such as:
Ripio - an Argentine company that facilitates the use of blockchain, custody, and payments (offramp and crypto card), and they have transparent ZEC and pix integration.
Rafaelando - who has a YouTube channel (crypto influencer).
Nightly - a community manager in Brazil, with whom we can hold spaces and talk about privacy.
Community org - a community focused on training to work with web3 communities, we’ve presented them with the ZecHub DAO.
HiveBlocks - an old partner, but they are implementing privacy features, which makes the partnership more interesting.
ABcrypto - a Brazilian crypto association that works together with the CVM (Securities and Exchange Commission). We had a fruitful conversation about privacy and changes in technology dynamics, with a lot of interest in the topic.
Strengthening the ties with long-standing partners such as CoinEx (a KYC-free exchange), Modular Crypto (one of the largest multichain educational projects in Brazil), NYM, and Secret.
@iogy, @michae2xl, @mine
Gifts
Sunglasses with Bag Case, Pens and Stickers
Modular House event on ArcaHub Rio de Janeiro
Our team was invited to Modular House, an initiative by Modular Crypto that embraces several events around Brazil to foster local crypto communities and drive national crypto adoption.
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ZecHUB
We at the Zcash Brazil design team are leading the ZecHub design SubDAO initiative by distributing tasks, evaluating them, and receiving and distributing payments, to improve the quality of the submitted artwork and carry out larger projects. Being a strong arm of ZecHub in educational and adoption projects.
Check out on Twitter the series of 7 banners of ZecHub’s 70s-themed Zcash Wallets that were made by the members of SubDAO and will be posted by ZecHub.
The first one has already been posted:
WeeklyCall Banner
#23 Edition
#22 Edition
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Zcash Brasil on Instagram: "Passando aqui para convidá-los para a nossa primeira WeeklyCall de julho, vol. 22. 🇧🇷 Tivemos uma semana animada no ecossistema #Zcash. Venha conferir! $ZEC #Zcash Local: Discord Data: 4/07/2024 Horário: 19h Sala: 🌍╏Zcash Brazil"
Mini Workshop Banner
BlockchainRio Ticket Giveaway Banner
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Zpaces on X
The Loss of Privacy During the Evolution of Money - Amandita and Casta
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Zcash Brasil on Instagram: "🎉 Novo #Zpaces Quentíssimo! 🎉 🔥 Temos o prazer de anunciar uma conversa imperdível com os incríveis @aamandita_ & @castacrypto 🔥 🗣️ Tema: A Perda da Privacidade Durante a Evolução do Dinheiro 🕵️♂️💸 🗓️ Quando: 11 de julho as 20 H 📍 Onde: No Twitter- Link na BIO Não perca essa oportunidade única de entender como a privacidade está mudando no mundo das finanças!"
Informative post: Privacy and Compliance Banner_AI background image
ZecHub Digest Banners Template (editable color and date)
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Youtube Portuguese Translations
Perspective: Privacy (The History of Internet Privacy)
https://youtu.be/1_RgywGeWMY?si=54iWSr3bDvzGEgdA
Images (free to use)
POAPS
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James Katz dev Report: Zcash Brazil - July 2024
Many services maintained by James Katz depend on VPC hosting and API keys.
All of these service payments are up to date. Currently, these services are:
- 4 Amazon AWS / LightSail instances
- OpenAI API key
James gave support for new users on how to use our Dizzy bot, the bot for micropayments and transfers of f$zec inside Discord.
James started working on a new back end for Dizzy, based on ZingoLib. This update should be done for the next report.
ZecFaucet SSL certificates needed to be renewed.
The domain zecfaucet.com needed to be renewed, the domain was renewed for 1 year.
The bot for fetching Forum messages and posting them on Discord had a bug, It was properly fixed.
This month, James created a new service/tool for the Zcash ecosystem: ZcashMetro.io
ZcashMetro is a visualization tool for the Zcash mempool. Even though James did this in his spare time, It was only possible because of the Zcash Brasil grant. James is still asking for donations, for improvements on this tool.
The domain zcashmetro.io was registered for 1 year.
Vito PR report, Vito is also helping zechub on media socials.
We held the month in which we presented the plans for the Shielding Summit, in partnership with the ZK AV Club, we streamed the event with translation into PT for the Brazilian community.
As well as providing support for the event’s ZCLIP, guiding users, and announcing on the server.
On the first Thursday, we had our Weekly Call
Topics
- ECC Updates - Zcash Soars Around the Sun
- Binance x Zcash Case Updates
- Zcash Community Grants - Election Results
- ZSA Compliance - Proposal Approved
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Weekly Call #23
Topics
- Zooko Resigns from Bootstrap Position
- Paul Brigner at Coinbase & Bootstrap
- ECC Updates: Leaving the Screens
- Dev Fund Poll Results
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In partnership with Jason McGee, we worked on the latest Dev Fund poll to guide the Brazilian community and get the results from users, announcing on social media and sending messages to members who shared their emails + translated the poll to PT.
We achieved good results! Thanks to everyone who participated!
In parallel, we published important news in separate articles and streamed the Arborist Call in the #Zcash Global room, watching with the community on Discord.
Arborist Call #80
Arborist Call #81
Arborist Call #82
We publish the weekly Zcash Ecosystem Digest on the networks and server
Zcash Ecosystem Digest 28/07
We kept the global community updated in the 
┊znews room with the most important posts
- This is the Zcash Foundation’s Engineering update for Sprint 13 (June 18th - July 1st.)
- ECC Transparency Report for Q4 2023
- A Legacy in Motion: ECC Weekly
- Zcash Community Grants Meeting Minutes 6/25/2024
- Zclip Contest: Shielding Summit, 10 July 2024
- Out From Behind the Screen. ECC update with Dev Fund Polling Bonus
- Zcash Community Grants Meeting Minutes 7/8/2024
- Chaos in Time. A Weekly update from ECC
- ECC Roadmap 07-24
Additionally, we performed maintenance on the Zcash Global server, including bridging with eZcash to provide support to users alongside Arnott.
Check it out → 
┊ezcash
E-zec CM report:
Continuous Onboarding and Community Support
- Full-time engagement: Actively onboarding new members and addressing community questions and concerns.
Weekly Activity Rewards
- Reward payments: Distribution of rewards for weekly activities organized by Zcash Brazil, including campaigns, events, Golden Ticket on Discord, and good deeds.
Community Guidance in ZCAP Voting
- Voting participation: Leading the community in ZCAP coin votes and ZURE by ECC elections.
Encouraging Broader Community Participation
- Community engagement: Continuously motivating the community to participate in other Zcash communities such as Zechub, ZK, AV Club, etc.
Blockchain Rio Event Promotion
- Event promotion: Publicizing and incentivizing participation in the Blockchain Rio event in partnership with CoinEx.
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Mini Workshop: Buy Gift Cards & Decentralized Swaps
- Workshop: Organizing and conducting a mini workshop by me and iogy on how to buy gift cards and perform fast and decentralized swaps.
Weekly Call #24
Conducted by
- Hosts: me Iogy and Michael
Blockchain Rio Activation
- Event activation: Planning and organizing activities for the Blockchain Rio event.
Zashi Presentation
- Activity: Presenting Zashi to the community.
- Download Incentive: Encouraging users to download Zashi from the Google Store and Apple Store.
- Social Media Engagement: Posting on X (formerly Twitter) and offering rewards for users who complete all steps.
Weekly Call #24
Conducted by
- Hosts: Iogy and Michael
Blockchain Rio Activation
- Event activation: myself, iogy, mine, and Michael are Planning and organizing activities for the Blockchain Rio the biggest crypto event in Brazil.
Zashi Presentation
- Activity: Presenting Zashi to the community.
- Download Incentive: Encouraging users to download Zashi from the Google Store and Apple Store.
- Social Media Engagement: Posting on X (formerly Twitter) and offering rewards for users who complete all steps.
Example post: VitalekButerick’s post
Social media metrics:
- x.com - 1324 zcashers
Earned 32 new followers this month. - Zcash Global - 1819 zcashers
Earned 45 members this month. - https://www.instagram.com/zcashbrasil/ - 759 zcashers.
Earned -4 members this month.
NOTE: We also have ZechubBrazil channels, YouTube, Podcast, Hive, Odysee, and Substack channels, threads, and others.
Milestone 7 - USD value of payout upon completion of deliverables:
Zcash Brazil Team compensation:
- @james_katz Dev: 1000$
- @vito PR: 1000$
- @Minevg Design: 900$
- @Iogy Design: 900$
- @E-zec CM & Moderator: 800$
- @Michae2xl Ambassador: 1000$
Total: $5600
(You will be paid out in ZEC based on the USD market price at payout time.)
For all Zcash Community:
Our art, code, and work are open-source and free to use.
Thank you so much!