Hello Zcash fam,
I wanted to provide a quick update on our progress before ZCON4. First, we’ve invested a lot of time over the last 5+ months to build our operations systems to be able to work more and more efficiently. We’ve also spent a lot of time researching and writing the overarching topics and material to be covered for all 20 videos. In addition, early on, we planned a switch to a hosted format for our future videos. We think a hosted format is helpful for succeeding on YouTube and has many advantages, including being able to more easily make future content and being able to talk about current events. But it also comes with its own challenges, including experimenting with tone, style, and delivery.
Regarding our timeline, we structured our grant to have two Milestones, each estimated to take 6 months, for a total of 12 months. We received the startup funding March 13, 2023, which put our target for Milestone 1 completion to Sept. 13, 2023. (There was a bit of a gap between getting the grant approved and being ready to receive startup funding, which pushed our Milestone 1 timeline back a bit from initial estimates.)
However, our internal schedule currently predicts we may need until October to complete Milestone 1, although this is still flexible, and we are working hard to keep to six month Milestone intervals. As a reminder, our deliverables are:
-Milestone 1: 8 videos completed and submitted to ZF for verification.
-Milestone 2: 12 videos completed and submitted to ZF for verification. 6 videos released.
What’s the bottom line? Our first 6 videos will be released between October ‘23 and March ‘24, with the other 14 videos being released at a regular cadence throughout 2024.
Again, we really appreciate the community’s support and can’t wait to show you what we’ve been making 
If you’re at ZCON4, I’d love to talk to you more about our progress and get feedback on our ideas, so please reach out!