ZecHub 2026

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Hello Community, please review the October project report from ZecHub:

Major Achievements

Announcement Posters made by Kroy

Project Updates

During October ZecHub DAO funded a new Zcash Ambassador project in South Africa, a merchant onboarding event & developer workshops + 2 day IRL hackathon for Zcash! we added number of new Zcash user resources across Zechub wiki including an updated guide on Using ZEC in DeFi, a new guide on How Coinholder Polling Works, added tools, project analytics via code pulse and more.

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The ZECBounties platform now has measures to limit requests from duplicate accounts, we prevent unlimited task suggestions from recently joined contributors. We also improved Team and Bounty management features on the platform. Tron managed to successfully get internal batch wallet payments timed working with Nym & several security patches that came in from the community. We will now begin inviting projects from the wider ecosystem to use ZecBounties to source talented Motion graphics artists, Researchers and Web developers who are interested in accepting Shielded ZEC.

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Vito managed the Zcash Discord, performing community support, performed ongoing maintenance including monitoring and maintaining bridges between communities, resolving channel-related issues, and helping keep communication running smoothly across connected servers. He also published the Zcash Shielded News editions, covering NU7 developments, wallet releases and governance. ZecHub sync call summaries, YouTube descriptions and Arborist Call summaries were also put out by Vito.

For Zcash’s 10th birthday squirrel held a community call and games night in the Zcash discord. The team prepared the “ZX” campaign with Kroy producing the set of posters we released over the 10 days leading up. Throughout the month Kroy delivered consistent visual assets supporting ZecHub’s education, branding, and community engagement efforts.

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Into November our priorities will be testing of ZecHub Wiki 3.0 which Vito has been developing and was previewed in our recent sync meeting. Wider rollout of the teams feature on Zecbounties, putting it to use for content on the main Zcash account and recording updated video guides on How to Pay with Zcash.

ZecHub Wiki

Vito’s updates (Wiki 3.0)

Wiki Redesign: Continued the ZecHub Wiki redesign with a cleaner, minimalist interface, improved typography, reorganized navigation, and responsive layouts for desktop and mobile. Updated visual assets, icons, and screenshots to improve consistency and readability.

Guides & Documentation: Reworked 12 Zcash Use Cases guides with step-by-step instructions and updated screenshots. Improved the wallets directory with 37 logos, Maya Protocol integration, Ironwood compatibility information, deprecated wallets, and rating system fixes. Also revised technical documentation covering Zcash addresses, Zebra, Zallet, Zaino, and the Z3 Stack.

Wiki Maintenance & Improvements: Reviewed and corrected hundreds of small issues across the wiki, including outdated information, broken links, inconsistent terminology, and images. Prepared the integration of approximately 400 upstream changes, including new translations, explorer directory updates, and security improvements.

Dismad’s Updates

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ZECBounties

Tron’s work throughout October focused on strengthening platform security, improving wallet and payout reliability, restructuring team operations, and expanding bounty management capabilities. Significant attention was also given to anti-spam measures, real-time updates, and performance optimization. Several new collaboration features were introduced, including persistent bounty chats and an activity tracking system.

Features & Improvements

  • Added Individual Team Overviews to provide users with information about teams before joining
  • Improved Address Verification by introducing an additional verification layer to address existing verification issues
  • Implemented User Blocking from Bounties to prevent suspected spam and duplicate accounts from abusing the platform
  • Optimized bounty status updates to eliminate unnecessary full-list reloads when individual bounty statuses change
  • Added an Admin Default User View, allowing administrators to access users’ social links for better account identification and spam detection
  • Introduced In-Bounty Chat for Admin–Assignee Communication, allowing administrators and assignees to communicate directly within a bounty. (This was contributed by a community member).
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  • Added Staff View of User Activity, allowing administrators to view users’ open bounties and historical activity
  • Fixed issues with the Bounty Edit Modal to improve editing reliability
  • Added an Activity Tab to provide better visibility into bounty progress and activity
  • Added a Joined Date to user profiles for improved profile statistics
  • Made Bounty Chats Persistent, allowing conversations to remain accessible even after a bounty has been completed
  • Updated administrative statistics to include exported bounties in staff earnings calculations
  • Removed unused and redundant payment routes to simplify the payment architecture
  • Introduced a dedicated Suggested Tasks tab to separate community-suggested tasks from regular bounties
  • Temporarily restricted bounty creation for Hunter roles while developing a more effective anti-spam protocol
  • Introduced Bounty Creation Limits, restricting hunters with fewer than five completed bounties from creating new bounties
  • Restructured Teams by removing the separate communityMember relationship. Favoriting a team now effectively establishes community membership
  • Implemented Zingo CLI v7 compatibility, updating the stack to support Zingo and Nym integration
  • Updated team bounty retrieval to fetch bounties directly through the respective team routes
  • Added authorization checks requiring ADMIN and TEAM roles for wallet imports
  • Restricted non-admin team members from clearing teamId values and aligned quota tests with the updated permission rules
  • Introduced a Monthly ZEC-to-USD Price Tracker to provide historical monthly price tracking
  • Improved bounty loading by restructuring Public and Private Bounty retrieval, making both workflows more reliable
  • Updated team WebSocket events to ensure bounty status changes are accurately delivered to HUNTER roles
  • Removed the accidental restriction preventing TEAM roles from creating bounties when they had fewer than five completed bounties
  • Improved wallet imports to correctly import existing seed phrases instead of unintentionally generating new wallets
  • Fixed Zingo STDERR logs
  • Increased Payout Timeout Limits to prevent transaction processes from terminating before completion
  • Improved the payout workflow to automatically redirect users to the Transactions tab following successful payouts
  • Updated team wallet management so that selecting a team automatically switches and loads the wallet associated with that team
  • Security & Backend Improvements
  • Fixed GitHub OAuth security issues, preventing users from signing actions on behalf of other accounts
  • Added security-focused tests to validate GitHub authentication and signing restrictions
  • Fixed reintroduced security leaks across the platform
  • Addressed Public Address Exposure by cleaning up payout-related address leaks
  • Fixed issues involving user address (UA) configuration on teams
  • Added authorization safeguards around wallet imports and team identification
  • Improved backend access restrictions to prevent unauthorized modification of team associations

Dismad worked on

  • API documention created
  • system section on admin settings page
  • zingo-cli v7.0 support with NYM
  • SECURITY.md and CONTRIBUTION.md created
  • Created access audit → zec-bounties/scripts/howto.md at main · ZecHub/zec-bounties · GitHub
  • Added repo filter options with icons ( Kroy will update soon)
  • Added new Admin dashboard and Admin KPI’s icons for admin page
  • KPI page defaults to mainnet now
  • Added new “Star Badges over time” Analytic graph
  • Added search for selecting users for bounties
  • Added nym/zcash sending dialog

ZecHub Content

Our October educational content:

All X (Twitter) content republished by Vito to Bluesky and Mastodon

Substack

Posters made by Kroy

X Spaces

Thumbnails on Youtube by Kroy

Community Meetings

Community Contributions

Tokidoki
Huge thanks to @tokidoki for security disclosures and manual reviews of several PR’s that came into the zecbounties and zechub-wiki repos!

Bloxster
Thank you to @bloxster for responding to the community and starting an initiative to add more languages to Zechub Wiki with small bounties issued via a new team on ZECbounties for Translation quality review.

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Monsignore
2 sets of graphic designs for the ZECIllustrated account were created by @Monsignoree!

UknowZork
The Zcash Luma Event Calendar has been updated weekly by @UknowZork_12 who is now creating weekly reminder posts on X, thank you!

Zcash Ecosystem Digest
Newsletters this month were curated by @ayanlajaayodeji-hash, @Faavour4712, Starlabman & 0xDavee

ZecHub Wiki

Bounty Program
Zcash Contributors: 25
ZEC towards bounties: 6.7
Bounties completed: 78
ZEC towards DAO Proposals: 8.471
view tasks: https://bounties.zechub.wiki

If you any questions or feedback, let us know. KPI’s to follow!

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