Hello everyone, Please read through ZecHub’s project activity during August:
Major Achievements
- DAO Proposal A101 - Community Grant Punchlist Proposal (Rejected)
- DAO Proposal A100 - Launch ZecHub Namada Bounty Program (Approved)
- DAO Proposal A99 - Proposal for a new DAO member: Robmar (Approved)
- DAO Proposal A98 - Proposal for a new DAO member: Blakiat (Approved)
Project Updates
We started off August participating in an X spaces with ZKulture. Check it out here.
Two technical demos were shared on all socials: How to install and use Zenith server to run RPCs with Zebrad + Zenith | LightWalletd Utilities Demo.
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gawirv0L_U
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hl18hzHI8wk
We released an in-depth tutorial on how to use the Shielded Zcash Metamask Snap.
* https://youtu.be/UJh9Ilkohdw
With Brave Browser’s recent addition of encrypted memos, we released a tutorial on how to activate a Zcash Shielded Account and use the new feature.
* https://youtu.be/TNcHY-GXFVo
The revamped ZecHub Dashboard was deployed with improved charts appearance & navigation between different charts. Our priority moving forward is resolving the markdown parsing issue so all pages load correctly.
Vito has been doing incredible post-production work on tutorials, including creating thumbnail designs, shorts, and summary clips of Arborist calls, as well as curating ZSN editions, X/Bluesky/Mastodon posts, and managing updates on the Discord server such as announcements, organization/maintenance, and implementations. Progress was made after our introductory call with Shapeshift, and contact has now been made with Hyperliquid following a private brainstorming session where we covered ecosystem topics—one of them being Michael’s tweet about a future integration.
We are now in touch with the team, exploring the possibility of integrating ZEC into Hyperliquid. Vito also contributed to the Crosslink Milestone #3 Workshop by organizing rooms, speakers, recordings, and edits in partnership with Jason McGee, and Mine, who was responsible for creating the main artwork of the event.
Dismad participated in the onsite Crosslink Milestone 3 Workshop! During August he recorded a tutorial for Zashi Swaps.
* https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jHPBw0Au3aU
There was Coordination with Tron to ensure our Namada dashboard reflected correct data. During the ZecHub segment of ZKAV Club Foundry he presented utilities used to extract chain data for the Dashboard.
* https://x.com/ZkAv_Club/status/1958962786878292105
He is also hosting the current Coinholder Vote URL, and helping coordinate/support voting authorities
Squirrel wrote a Zero to Zero Knowledge article on Payment Processors. The Zingo 2.0 Podcast was recently released. Podcast episode and clips were cross posted between both Zingo & ZecHub. Bounty task creation, assisting contributors with task completion and processing of payments handled by Squirrel with assistance from FPF.
A DAO meeting was hosted on August 20th, thank you to everyone that joined and gave thoughts & ideas. Squirrel presented the ZecHub Treasury Report, discussed strategy for RFC’s Global Ambassador Proposals and the ZecHub Hackathon. Sync meetings now have an Early 16:00 UTC & Late 21:00 UTC time slots.
The ZecHub Hackathon has officially started! We invite Zcash supporters and enthusiasts to start up a Zebra Node, Lightwalletd Server or use Zingo-CLI to create an app or tool that people can use to interact with the network. Submission deadline: October 2nd, 2025.
Contest Details: https://hackathon.zechub.wiki
ZecHub Content
Our August educational content:
- ZecHub Podcast: Zingo 2.0 with Zingo Labs
- Using Shielded ZEC to purchase gift cards on CoinCards
- Decide whether to activate a Retroactive Grants Program with Network Upgrade 6.1.
- Try out Zkool The first Zcash mobile/desktop wallet to support Shielded Multisig (FROST) !
- How to install and use the latest ZenithServer to run RPCs with Zebrad and Zenith
- Did You Know Series: Did you know Zallet replaces zcashd?
- Did You Know Series: Zebra is the Full Node Implementation of the Zcash Protocol?
- Zero to Zero Knowledge: Payment Processors
- Zcash Shielded News | Vol.42 | Vol.43 | Vol.44 | Vol.45
- Arborist Call Summary + Clips #107 | #108
- Zcash Ecosystem Digest August 3rd | August 10th | August 17th | August 24th | August 31st
Shorts
- No KYC: ZEC → NEAR Crypto Swap in Seconds
- Zingo 2.0 What is a Sync Engine?
- Non-Linear Syncing in Zingo 2.0
- Zingo 2.0 Autoshielding
- Zingo 2.0 Tor
Community Meetings
- DAO Meeting 20/08 - unrecorded
Community Contributions
Zcash Event Calendar
Thank you @UknowZork_12 for managing the calendar. Please subscribe to find out what is happening across the ecosystem!
Zcash Brazil
@Iogy has been making images used in all Zcash Shielded News publications. Thanks to @Michae2xl for putting us in touch with OpenvApps. A community event is currently being scheduled.
Zcash Ecosystem Digest
Newsletters this month were curated by @rems-15 and Onikhe.
ZecHub Wiki
- BTCPayserver Page: https://zechub.wiki/btcpay-zcash
- Arborist Calls Page + DAO Governance Guide: Created Governance Howto page, Aborist Calls page listing all the calls, fixed net inflow color (red for down and Green for up) by onajifortune · Pull Request #199 · ZecHub/zechub-wiki · GitHub
- Wallets Page update from Kenzo: Update Wallets.md by KenzyNuel · Pull Request #1256 · ZecHub/zechub · GitHub
- @artkor added a BTCPayServer Guide to the wiki, thank you! Instructions for setting up BTCPay Server with Zcash Support by ruzcash · Pull Request #1251 · ZecHub/zechub · GitHub
- Research article: “Tracking Early On-chain and Social Signals on Zcash (ZEC)” by @Jhei001.Track Early On-chain & Social Signals for Zcash (ZEC) by Jhei001 · Pull Request #1263 · ZecHub/zechub · GitHub
- @Speedfox updated the navigation bar appearance: Navigation update by amochuko · Pull Request #208 · ZecHub/zechub-wiki · GitHub
- Guide on using Zkool Multisig by Annabelle: Zkool Multisig by Anabellerice · Pull Request #1265 · ZecHub/zechub · GitHub
- Jenkin added all items to dropdown menu on the Homepage: Task #738: Update menu dropdown links by jenkin · Pull Request #207 · ZecHub/zechub-wiki · GitHub
Bounty Program
Zcash Contributors: 20
ZEC towards bounties: 61.85
ZEC towards DAO Proposals: 70.72
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