Zcash India – Progress Update | April 2026
Greetings Zcash Community!
It’s been a massive month for Zcash India. We hit milestones we didn’t expect to reach this early — two events (one online, one offline), a new bounty program driving organic engagement, and community numbers that have blown past our initial projections. Here’s the full breakdown.
Channel Growth
| Platform | Launch (Feb 22) | Last Update | Today | Since Last Update | All-Time Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| X (@ZcashIND) | 1 follower | 80 followers | 167 followers | +109% | +16,600% |
| Telegram (@ZcashIN) | 5 members | 91 members | 221 members | +143% | +4,320% |
X followers more than doubled. Telegram more than doubled. Still 100% organic. Zero paid promotion. These numbers are a direct result of consistent content, two live events, and a community that’s starting to share on its own.
First Online Event — Zcash India Live #01
On April 14, we hosted the first-ever Zcash India online meetup. 40 minutes. 22 slides. Complete beginners.
77 live attendees showed up. Our internal KPI was 65+. We exceeded it on the first try.
Here’s what we covered:
- The evolution of the web (Web1 → Web2 → Web3) and why privacy breaks down on public blockchains
- A live Etherscan demo — we showed attendees what a salary looks like on a transparent chain. The room went silent.
- Zero-Knowledge Proofs and zk-SNARKs explained in plain English
- Transparent vs. shielded addresses — why Zcash is different
- Live wallet creation — every attendee installed Zashi (now Zodl), created a self-custodial wallet with no email, no KYC, just a seed phrase and a PIN. For most, this was their first self-custodial wallet ever.
- Live faucet demo — attendees claimed free ZEC from zecfaucet.com and sent their first shielded transactions on the call. Shoutout to ZecHub for running the faucet that made this possible.
We recapped the event on X here: Zcash India Live #01 — Event Thread
First Offline Event — IRL University Workshop
Shortly after the online event, we took Zcash India to the real world. Our first offline workshop brought privacy education directly to students — live demos, wallet setups, and face-to-face conversations about why financial privacy matters.
The energy was incredible. Students who had never heard of Zcash walked out with wallets, ZEC, and a reason to care about privacy.
Photos from the event: Google Drive — Offline Event Photos
Here’s what attendees had to say — in their own words, unprompted:
When attendees voluntarily tweet about your event without being asked — that’s the signal. These aren’t paid promoters. These are students who genuinely found value in what we’re building.
$100 Meme Bounty — Live & Receiving Submissions
This month we launched a $100 Meme Bounty ($20 × 5 winners) to drive creative community engagement around financial privacy and Zcash. The rules are simple: create an original, positive meme about privacy or Zcash, post it on X tagging @ZcashIND with #ZcashIndiaMeme.
Submissions are already rolling in:
This is exactly the kind of grassroots, organic content creation we set out to drive — real people making real content about Zcash, reaching audiences we couldn’t reach alone.
What’s Working
Looking back at two months of execution, a few things are clearly working:
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Events convert. The online event exceeded our attendance KPI on attempt one. The offline workshop generated unprompted social proof from attendees. We’re going monthly on both formats.
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Bounties drive authentic content. Both the thread-writing bounty (March) and the meme bounty (April) have generated genuine community-created content that extends Zcash India’s reach far beyond our own follower count.
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The numbers speak for themselves. From 1 follower and 5 members to 167 followers and 221 Telegram members — with zero paid promotion. Every number here is earned.
What’s Next
- Monthly online events continuing — Zcash India Live #02 is being planned
- More IRL university workshops to bring privacy education to students across India
- Continued bounty programs to keep community engagement high
- ZecHub contributions and deeper integration with the global Zcash ecosystem
We said we’d prove ourselves through execution. Two months in: two events delivered, two bounty programs run, a community growing faster than projected, and real people making their first shielded transactions.
We’re just getting started.
Thanks for following along — feedback always welcome!
Jatin Sahijwani
Zcash India | @ZcashIND | t.me/ZcashIN