As part of management of @ Zcash we would like to share our monthly performance both for transparency as well as an opportunity for feedback from the community. If you want us to track any particular metric please let us know.
This month has been eventful. Following our Research section revamp we reached out to Ankita Singh regarding possible research topics. The Zcash Foundations Series contains 7 educational articles ranging from the mathematical foundations of modern cryptography all the way to how Zcash shielded transactions work!
Look out for them over the next few weeks as X Articles!
The ZecHub Media Kit containing logos, fonts, several new isometric icons etc. was created to accompany the Visual Identity Guide created by Kroy.
Day-to-day management of the @Zcash account continues. The first original content posters performed well, we are now moving to create bounties entirely dedicated to original content for the account.
A new X account @ZECIllustrated has been created. The aim is to create minimalist graphic designs that can help new users grasp complex Zcash topics.
Vito implemented several updates to the Discord server, including improvements to the onboarding section to make the experience easier for new members.
Zcash India and East Africa Telegram communities were bridged to Discord and carried out multiple rebranding updates across older channels, including the removal of outdated roles and permissions.
The announcements channel was fully updated in line with the latest ecosystem news. Arborist Calls continued to be restreamed to Discord with written summaries published via Substack.
Core team members were invited to host & record presentations as part of workshops led by Elzz and Dre. The were edited and published to YouTube with timestamps of all topics.
We provided support to the Zcash Onboarding Events held by Global Ambassadors and support to community members, assisting with bounty tasks, with Testnet ZEC and technical queries.
We also performed a round of internal ZecHub Treasury management and have had an initial meeting with someone at Uniswap Labs to discuss scheduling a community event.
During the first week after launch, 2 live bounties received 26 applications
In the following week, 4 live bounties and 4 community-suggested tasks were published, with the live bounties receiving 28 applications (excluding suggested tasks)
Work Completed
Added a Recovery Information option protected behind an OTP verification flow for improved account security
Implemented a Test Connection feature to allow users to verify server connectivity
Added a spam check indicator
Implemented email notifications for newly published bounties
Improved the display for multiple wallet addresses for admin
Created a dedicated Profile page for UA address
Updated the payout workflow for mainnet
Enhanced the tx table with Send/Receive indicators and tx fee information
Optimized submission processing to improve performance and responsiveness
Removed testnet validation logic following the platform’s migration to mainnet
Improved the bounty application experience by displaying applicant avatars
Added an Export feature to support FPF reporting
Implemented a Confirm Payment modal
Improved admin statistics accuracy by reporting only mainnet activity
Refined the Submissions UI for better readability and workflow efficiency
Performed general bug fixes and stability improvements across the platform
Next Steps
Hackathon Submission DAO vote and winner announcement
Publish our ZKAV Collab interview with Harry Halpin
Post Zcash Foundations Articles
Publish Crosslink Explainer Video
ZecHub Treasury Report
Community handover of @ZECIllustrated Account
List ZEC Bounties for @Zcash Account content
Community Contributions
ZCG Election Candidates Summaries
@Omegaonchain produced an incredibly well put together series of 7 video summaries for the ZCG Candidates Election. Thank you!
Zcash Ecosystem Digest
Thanks to @rems-15 and to @Greatnessone for curating all links from around the ecosystem over the past few weeks and setting up Zcash Indonesia accounts with translated publications!
Our best tweet this month yielded 300284 impressions! ( h/t @noir_wallet )
Impressions went up month to month since May (3.78%). This avg was boosted by our top tweet coming in at 2660% month to month.
I will be posting a seperate @Zcash KPI post after this one
Areas that were negative vs last month:
ZecHub contributors
ZecHub-wiki PR’s
Newsletter subscribers
DaoDao Proposals/ Approved Proposals
DAO prop highlight
Proposal A159 passed which refined and modernize the DAO’s visual representation so it remains consistent with our updated brand visual guidelines. ( h/t @theKroy )
As part of management of @ Zcash we would like to share our monthly performance both for transparency as well as an opportunity for feedback from the community. If you want us to track any particular metric please let us know.
When I first joined Zcash, I was introduced to Zechub as well. They play a fantastic role in helping new people join the community and learn about Zcash. Great team—congratulations!
July was a high-output month centered on supporting ZecHub (wiki and content repositories). Work focused on improving our bounty platform, adding new features such as continuous supply and metrics dashboards, documentation polish, and new educational content.
4 articles introducing a more engaging and reader-friendly structure have been written by Vito including ‘Why Your VPN Isn’t Enough: The Future of Digital Privacy Runs Through Mixnets’, ‘VPNs, mixnets, and layered privacy’, ‘Ironwood network upgrade and its impact on the Zcash ecosystem’ and one summarising the Hackathon submissions. Upcoming work includes Preparing community call and event coverage for August & developing educational tutorials for Zakura and Noir Wallet.
Squirrel updated the Treasury Dashboard and hosted a community call going over the Q2 Treasury Report also working together with contributors toward refining submissions, processing weekly payments and Ecosystem Digests, updating the Hackathon page with submitted projects, managing store orders and arranging our Hackathon vote. Updates were made to the Zcash Wallets page detailing which are Ironwood ready & Obscura Labs added to Organisations section.
Kroy has delivered visual assets consistent with ZecHub’s branding, and community engagement efforts. These include:
ZSN posters and subposters (Vol 25-29)
YouTube Thumbnails for Developers and Contributors Workshop
Zcash Foundation/zebra #11014 — Clarified the “transaction not found” RPC error message (changed from “main chain” to “mempool or best chain” to avoid mainnet confusion). Merged 28 July.
Enoch208/Turnstile #9 — Added Zkool support to the Ironwood Orchard-exposure checker (viewing-key-only tool). Merged 21 July.
Zebra PR detail: Changed RPC error from "transaction not found in main chain" → "Transaction not found in mempool or best chain" (avoids mainnet confusion). Trivial clarity fix; merged on Ironwood activation day.
ZecHub Hackathon
The first annual ZecHub Hackathon is nearly completed! The DAO is currently carrying out a 2-Stage voting process to determine the 5 finalists. Stay tuned for the announcement.
Thanks to Ryan and the ZKAV Club team for providing recordings and accompanying descriptions for interviews with Harry Halpin at Dark Prague and an interview about ZK Loyalty and FHE published this month. Post production of the source videos and creation of shorts was carried out by Vito.
Huge thanks to @Bloxster for completing his proposal to provide a better alternative to Google translations & make ZecHub Wiki a much more secure, privacy-preserving resource for site visitors.
Omega Wolf
In the weeks leading up to the NU6.3 @Omegaonchain has worked on the brilliant Road to Ironwood Series thus far providing an introduction to Ironwood, the Turnstile & zcashd deprecation!
Our best tweet this month yielded 9380 impressions
Impressions went down month to month since June (-9.18%). This is coming off the highs of June.
GitHub numbers stellar this month due to Hackathon and the soft launch of Zec Bounties
Twitter Performance
Total Avg monthly impressions: 97466
Total Avg “Best Post” impressions: 50982
Follower count: 1.46% up
Areas that were negative vs last month:
Twitter top post
Twitter Impressions
DaoDao members [ Michael2xl stepped down ]
DAO prop highlight
Proposal A162 passed requesting retroactive compensation from the ZecHub DAO for organizing and hosting the inaugural Zcash Developer Workshop, a six-week virtual developer education program designed to onboard developers into the Zcash ecosystem through structured technical training, hands-on learning, and direct engagement with ecosystem builders. ( h/t @Dre_Nesthub )
Retroactive funding is a great way to reward work already completed
Top contributors to our Github(s) this month include:
As part of management of @ Zcash we would like to share our monthly performance both for transparency as well as an opportunity for feedback from the community. If you want us to track any particular metric please let us know.
Appendix zero:
Impressions count how many times a post was displayed on screens. Engagements count how many times users interacted with it.
Impressions
Every time the post appears in a timeline, search results, profile, notifications, or other X surface.
Non-unique: the same person seeing it multiple times counts as multiple impressions.
Purely passive — no click, like, pause, or attention required. Scrolling past it still registers.
This is the primary distribution/visibility metric (and what X uses for things like the creator revenue threshold of organic impressions).
Engagements
Total interactions with the post. Each action counts separately.
Includes:
Likes
Replies
Reposts / quotes
Follows generated from the post
Link clicks
Media clicks
Profile / username / avatar clicks
Hashtag clicks
Detail expands (clicking the post itself to open the full view)
Other clicks anywhere on the post
One user can generate multiple engagements (e.g., like + reply + link click = 3).
Key relationship
Engagement rate = Engagements ÷ Impressions (usually shown as a percentage).
High impressions + low engagement means the post was widely distributed but mostly ignored.
High engagement rate (even on lower impressions) is a stronger signal of content quality and is what the algorithm tends to reward for further distribution.
Amazing update..
