The Top 25 is here 
After digging through years of Zcon talks, breakthroughs, predictions, privacy lore, governance drama, cryptography, wallets, ideas that shaped Zcash, and some that didn’t…
The official Zk Av Club Top 25 Most Important Zcon Videos playlist is live!
Graphic design by @zilk
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAk91cn5Gk6k
This is our attempt to answer a very big question: If somebody wanted to understand Zcash through the history of Zcon, which 25 presentations should they watch?
And now that the playlist is locked, we can finally reveal who won the Zcash Playlist Challenge.
The winners
@Dnilshon1 — 16 points — 1 ZEC
@farad — 15 points — 1 ZEC
@Aminag — 13 points — 1 ZEC
Congratulations! And thanks to everyone who took the challenge seriously enough to dig through years of Zcon history with us.
Final scoreboard
| Place | Entrant | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Dnilshon1 | 16 |
| 2 |
farad | 15 |
| 3 |
Aminag | 13 |
| T-4 | Freddeyforyou | 12 |
| T-4 | gilmore | 12 |
| T-6 | abdools | 11 |
| T-6 | E-zec | 11 |
| T-8 | DarwinZ | 10 |
| T-8 | Lowo88 | 10 |
| 10 | Biggdhan | 9 |
| 11 | lfos51 | 8 |
| 12 | jsalimjr | 6 |
Dive into the playlist. Find the talks that shaped Zcash, rediscover moments that deserve another look, and send a favorite to somebody who needs to know this history.
This playlist is only the first collection coming out of the larger Zcon archive project.
For the research nerds
Challenge scoring was 1 point for every video in your playlist that made the official Top 25, plus 3 bonus points for every exact-position match.
The submitted playlists helped me define the research starting point. From there, I researched the presentations, reconstructed their historical context, compared overlapping talks, and built an independent editorial ranking before bringing the challenge evidence back in for the final Zk Av Club result.
Y’all helped me figure out where to dig. Then I dug very, very deep.
Congrats to the winners! Thank you to everyone who participated and to @ZcashFoundation for giving us such a rich audiovisual record of Zcash history!
More from the archive coming soon.