# Zcash Playlist Challenge: 25 Most Important Zcon Presentations

**URL:** <https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/zcash-playlist-challenge-25-most-important-zcon-presentations/55914>\
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**Created:** [May 29, 2026, 4:23pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/zcash-playlist-challenge-25-most-important-zcon-presentations/55914 "2026-05-29T16:23:35Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 24, 2026, 3:58pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/zcash-playlist-challenge-25-most-important-zcon-presentations/55914/28 "2026-08-24T15:58:44Z")

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## 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](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAk91cn5Gk6k) playlist is live!

[![Zcash Essential History - Top 25 Zcon Videos](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/original/3X/6/0/60268f9e4e4735378b9158a59506d61d021d3697.jpeg)](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAk91cn5Gk6k)  
_Graphic design by @zilk_

👉 [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAk91cn5Gk6k](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](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSeT4tufHm3c) 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.

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