Application Owners (@Octocat, @Octocat1) @KHADEVS Organization Name OpenPGP Wallet How did you learn about Zcash Community Grants While looking for a way to remove the moment when my wallet's signing key sits whole in RAM, I found FROST; researching FROST for Zcash led me to the Zcash Foundation's work and to ZCG. Requested Grant Amount (USD) $16,500 Category Infrastructure Project Lead Additional Team Members Project Summary Consumer FROST 2-of-3 for shielded ZEC is arriving in several wallets at once (Zkool already ships it; NoirWallet and OpenPGP…

Application Owners (@Octocat, @Octocat1) @SergioBenaR Organization Name BlockivIA How did you learn about Zcash Community Grants Zcash Community Forum and ecosystem research. Requested Grant Amount (USD) $1,500 Category Education Project Lead Additional Team Members Project Summary BlockivIA will deliver three Zcash education and adoption workshops across two Bolivian universities—two in-person at UMSA in La Paz and one virtual with UAGRM in Santa Cruz—targeting at least 100 participants.

Application Owners (@Octocat, @Octocat1) @GabrielAlfonsoPinzon Organization Name CENTIREINGS How did you learn about Zcash Community Grants Through independent research into funding opportunities for open quantitative crypto-market research and ecosystem public goods. Requested Grant Amount (USD) $22,500 Category Research & Development Project Lead Additional Team Members N/A — CENTIREINGS is currently led by Gabriel Alfonso Pinzon Garces.

Application Owners (@Octocat, @Octocat1) @Codeinx, @Timidan, @ebunayo, @WiseMrMusa, @developeruche, @bloceducare Organization Name Web3Bridge / Blokeducare Technology Business Limited How did you learn about Zcash Community Grants Twitter Requested Grant Amount (USD) $49000 Category Education Project Lead Additional Team Members Project Summary Web3Bridge proposes a six-month Zcash Africa Privacy Engineering Residency Pilot to build a measurable pipeline of African developers into the Zcash ecosystem: a broad online foundation, an intensive technical…

Application Owners (@Octocat, @Octocat1) @Arun5768 Organization Name The Origin Guild, with Builder Base supporting Delhi and Noida delivery How did you learn about Zcash Community Grants Through the official Zcash Community Grants website, public grant applications and committee discussions on the Zcash Community Forum. Reviewing existing India initiatives helped us focus this proposal on sustained developer practice rather than another general awareness event.

Application Owners (@Octocat, @Octocat1) @thabo-zebl Organization Name Zcash Early Builders Lab (ZEBL) Cape Town How did you learn about Zcash Community Grants X Requested Grant Amount (USD) $47300 Category Education Project Lead Additional Team Members Project Summary Zcash Early Builders Lab (ZEBL) Cape Town is an interactive 2-day hands-on workshop and mini-hackathon designed to teach high school upperclassmen and early university students zero-knowledge cryptography, digital financial literacy, and privacy-preserving development.

Application Owners (@Octocat, @Octocat1) @zecboat Organization Name Zecboat How did you learn about Zcash Community Grants zcash community member Requested Grant Amount (USD) 61400 Category Wallets Project Lead Additional Team Members None. This is a one-person project; the external review is ZCG's engagement, not a team member. Project Summary Wake-v1 is a custom Halo 2 circuit for note lineage: it lets the user who receives a layer two zcash shielded asset check, from the chain, that the note in their hand descends from the issuer's original note.

Application Owners (@Octocat, @Octocat1) @VkxProtocol Organization Name VKX Technologies LTDA How did you learn about Zcash Community Grants Through research into blockchain ecosystem grant programs and the Zcash Community Forum. Requested Grant Amount (USD) 48000 Category Wallets Project Lead Additional Team Members Project Summary VKX Wallet is a live, self-custodial multi-chain wallet on Android and iOS built in Brazil.

Application Owners (@Octocat, @Octocat1) 4ni4 Organization Name Ania Shestakova How did you learn about Zcash Community Grants I've learned thru devrel community, and an event org at devcon 8. Requested Grant Amount (USD) $1000 Category Education Project Lead Additional Team Members Project Summary Travel & participation support for an independent researcher, curator, and performer representing ZK privacy, biometric sovereignty, and agentic networks at Devcon 8 Mumbai (Nov 4–5) — through curation, speaking, and the live premiere of DIFFUSION Opera.

Application Owners (@Octocat, @Octocat1) @FPSteve Organization Name Four Pillars How did you learn about Zcash Community Grants Through the official Zcash Community Grants website and published community-grant meeting minutes while researching support for publicly accessible ecosystem research. Requested Grant Amount (USD) 20000 Category Research & Development Project Lead Additional Team Members Project Summary Four Pillars proposes an eight-week, $20,000 project to publish one original 15–20-page English research report and complete Korean edition on…

Application Owners (@Octocat, @Octocat1) @mishabunte Organization Name Hito Inc How did you learn about Zcash Community Grants Through Network School and Zodl, followed by our previous ZCG application. Requested Grant Amount (USD) $88,000 Category Wallets Project Lead Additional Team Members Project Summary Hito requests $88,000 to continue developing and integrating its UI toolkit for Zcash, complete firmware and Android/iOS integration on existing devices, test and internally review the release, and maintain it for 12 months.

Application Owners (@Octocat, @Octocat1) @luoy16002-svg Organization Name Kai Chen (individual) How did you learn about Zcash Community Grants While building Tells for the Zcash track of the Colosseum Crypto World's Fair hackathon (October 2026), through the grants category of the Zcash Community Forum. Requested Grant Amount (USD) 24000 Category Security Project Lead Additional Team Members Project Summary Tells is a privacy checkup for Zcash wallets: it reads a wallet's history through its viewing key, on the user's own machine, shows which deposits…

Application Owners (@Octocat, @Octocat1) @VoodooKingX, @luciotato, @aidonker Organization Name Build Buddies, powered by Meta Pool How did you learn about Zcash Community Grants We discovered Zcash Community Grants through Zcash’s official grants resources and community channels while researching ecosystem partners for Build Buddies’ multi-chain education and community activation program. We were particularly interested in Zcash’s mission to advance financial privacy, open-source development, and real-world user education.

Application Owners (@Octocat, @Octocat1) @DeBelg, @Tranquil-flow Organization Name Foragers How did you learn about Zcash Community Grants Been familiar with ZCG for a while, ran for elections as committee member, and vouched for various other projects. Requested Grant Amount (USD) 40904 Category Infrastructure Project Lead Additional Team Members Project Summary The current Zcash documentation is outdated and, at certain points, broken.

Application Owners (@Octocat, @Octocat1) @ Mahdi-Kintaal, @ByteSurgeonAmos, @sammykisina Organization Name Vaihto FX Limited (trading as VaihtoFX), private limited company incorporated in Kenya on 31 August 2026, Registration No. PVT-BB169Z98 Registered office: The Address, Muthangari Drive, Westlands, Nairobi, Kenya Board of directors (all also shareholders): Mahdi Abdi Abdile (Managing Director), Sadik Mohamed Ali, Abdinasir Ali Arale How did you learn about Zcash Community Grants Researching Zcash payment infrastructure and reading ZCG meeting…

Application Owners (@Octocat, @Octocat1) @jonmrjr, @PaulLaux, @vivek-arte Organization Name QED-it Systems LTD How did you learn about Zcash Community Grants Past grantee Requested Grant Amount (USD) 455000 Category Infrastructure Project Lead Additional Team Members Project Summary QEDIT proposes the adaptation of the ZSA branches to the new changes proposed for NU7, such as the new extensible transaction format, the new Orchard Quantum Recoverability ZIP, and other changes.

Application Owners (@Octocat, @Octocat1) MarijaMikic Organization Name Mathematical Academy How did you learn about Zcash Community Grants I learned about the Zcash Community Grants program through Riley from the Geode team. During our discussions about funding this year's Zero-Knowledge Cryptography Course, she suggested that the project would be a good fit for the Zcash Community Grants program. Since Geode is providing partial support this year, we are seeking an additional sponsor to help us successfully deliver the course.

Application Owners (@Octocat, @Octocat1) @ONEONUORA @Jaywebtech @Anonfedora Organization Name Blink How did you learn about Zcash Community Grants An event hosted by Zcash Nigeria and Active on the Zcash forum since late 2025 Requested Grant Amount (USD) $150,000 Category Infrastructure Project Lead Additional Team Members Project Summary Blink will build ZecPOS Core, an open-source shielded payment rail that enables merchants to accept native shielded ZEC through checkout and POS while retaining ZEC or settling a chosen portion to local fiat.

Application Owners (@Octocat, @Octocat1) Lowo88 Organization Name Leonine DAO How did you learn about Zcash Community Grants Zcash Community Forum and ZCG public materials. We previously participated in the Coinholder-Directed Retroactive Grants Program for wallet-core work; this application is a separate forward/milestone ask for unfinished Sync Engine / public light-client infrastructure (issue #274).

Application Owners (@Octocat, @Octocat1) @Abidoyesimze, @robertocarlous, @peejay-git Organization Name Stallion Labs How did you learn about Zcash Community Grants Through the Developer Relations Team, and by reviewing ZCG's public wishlist ("What We're Ready To Fund") — atomic swaps are explicitly named under Interoperability. Requested Grant Amount (USD) 50,000 Category Security Project Lead Additional Team Members Project Summary A formal specification, feasibility verification, and testnet demonstration of a non-custodial, privacy-preserving atomic…

Application Owners (@Octocat, @Octocat1) @dk51islive Organization Name I am applying as an individual contributor. I am not representing an organization for this grant. How did you learn about Zcash Community Grants Through the Zcash community and Zcash Community Forum. Requested Grant Amount (USD) 12000 Category Community Project Lead Additional Team Members Project Summary I am requesting four months of funding to provide hands-on community, marketing, partnership, and ecosystem operations support to existing Zcash communities and projects.

Application Owners (@Octocat, @Octocat1) @jen-sei Organization Name Web3Privacy Now How did you learn about Zcash Community Grants Through an existing relationship with the Zcash ecosystem. Zcash had supported Web3Privacy Now events and is an annual member of our organization, so we have known the grants programme for some time. The direct prompt to apply for this specific work came from ZECsy team, a community member I met in person in Amsterdam, who suggested it might fit ZCG's remit.

Application Owners (@Octocat, @Octocat1) robustfengbin Organization Name Independent Developer How did you learn about Zcash Community Grants The Zcash Community Forum, GitHub Requested Grant Amount (USD) 50000 Category Research & Development Project Lead Additional Team Members Project Summary NU7 adds a new term to Zcash's supply: the NSM reserve, which ZIP 259 defines as consensus state outside every value pool.

Application Owners (@Octocat, @Octocat1) imerkle Organization Name imerkle How did you learn about Zcash Community Grants tg Requested Grant Amount (USD) $40,500 Category Non-Wallet Applications Project Lead Additional Team Members Project Summary An P2P mobile app enabling Indian users to buy and sell Zcash via Cash Deposit Machines (CDMs) using NEAR smart contracts for escrow, eliminating the threat of bank account freezes and de-anonymization when linking real-world bank accounts to public blockchain addresses.

Application Owners @tufanaydinn, @omerfarukdev, @mrtufan28 Organization Name Zocial World How did you learn about Zcash Community Grants Through the Zcash Community Forum and by following the Zcash ecosystem and community grant discussions while developing Zocial World. Requested Grant Amount (USD) $45,000 Category Community Project Lead Additional Team Members Project Summary Zocial World is an open-source, browser-based 3D social world for the Zcash ecosystem, combining community interaction, education, events, project discovery and privacy-preserving…

Application Owners (@Octocat, @Octocat1) @michae2xl, @vinibarbosabr Organization Name 0xramp Labs How did you learn about Zcash Community Grants Zcash Community Forum. Michael has contributed to ZCG-funded Zcash Brazil cycles, a separate community project, and built openzcash.org as a personal project. Neither 0xramp Labs nor Vini Barbosa has received ZCG funding. Requested Grant Amount (USD) $45,000 Category Integration Project Lead Additional Team Members Project Summary 0xramp helps people buy, sell and spend ZEC through local payment rails.

Application Owners (@Octocat, @Octocat1) @danielgorgonha, @dayanebismark Organization Name DeegaLabs How did you learn about Zcash Community Grants Our first contact with the Zcash ecosystem was in April 2026, when I volunteered at Ipê Village, in Florianópolis. Zcash Brasil was a partner of the event, and right at the first workshop I met Michael (Michae2xl on the forum), the leader of the community in the country.

Application Owners (@Octocat, @Octocat1) @strahnio, @viabhinav, @ItsViolet Organization Name Strahn Cryptography Pte. Ltd. How did you learn about Zcash Community Grants Forum. Requested Grant Amount (USD) 255,000 Category Infrastructure Project Lead Additional Team Members Project Summary Our research on the Skyhook Bridge enables programmable payment recognition and expectation in Turing-complete correspondent chains for cross-chain value transfer directly in the shielded pool trustlessly, enabling atomic swaps, decentralised liquidity bridging, and…

Application Owners (@Octocat, @Octocat1) @wolkodaww123-ctrl Organization Name TITANHOLD (TITANHOLD LLC, Wyoming, USA, in formation; formation papers expected 13-14 October 2026. Until then the applicant is Hennadii Kovalenko, individual) How did you learn about Zcash Community Grants Researching privacy-preserving payment options for my marketplace; found the ZCG wishlist ("Integrating native ZEC in end user apps", "Payment URIs", "Easy one-click shielded payments").

Application Owners (@Octocat, @Octocat1) lisa001 (chidi) Organization Name @zcashNigeria How did you learn about Zcash Community Grants community Requested Grant Amount (USD) 68,600 Category Community Project Lead Additional Team Members Project Summary To strengthen a well-informed Zcash community in Nigeria by delivering accurate, accessible, and engaging educational resources, while fostering an inclusive and connected network that supports growth, collaboration, and the adoption of privacy-focused financial solutions.

Application Owners (@Octocat, @Octocat1) @chainweb-commits Organization Name Chainweb How did you learn about Zcash Community Grants Zcash Community Forum Requested Grant Amount (USD) $16,500 Category Community Project Lead Additional Team Members Project Summary Zcash Kenya — Privacy, Community & Economic Adoption Initiative is a focused four-month program designed to introduce financial privacy and practical Zcash usage to selected Kenyan university, technology and Web3 communities.

Application Owners (@Octocat, @Octocat1) @intellidean Organization Name Micheal Dean How did you learn about Zcash Community Grants Through researching Zcash ecosystem projects Requested Grant Amount (USD) $38,000 Category Infrastructure Project Lead Additional Team Members Project Summary Zcash Private Receive Bridge is an open-source local service designed to reduce disclosure of wallet-selected confirmed transaction lookups to remote lightwallet servers.

Application Owners (@Octocat, @Octocat1) @wygogogo19 Organization Name RobotBase (robotbase.cc) — independent infrastructure operator, no entity funding behind it. How did you learn about Zcash Community Grants Through the Zcash Community Forum grants category and the ZCG site while researching how to fund Zebra-native mining infrastructure. We already run a Zebra node in production, so ZCG is the natural place to ask for support in turning that operational work into a reusable public good.

Application Owners (@Octocat, @Octocat1) @Batuhanzcash Organization Name Zcash Türkiye How did you learn about Zcash Community Grants Zcash Forum Requested Grant Amount (USD) 27000 Category Event Sponsorships Project Lead Additional Team Members Project Summary As Zcash Türkiye, we aim to introduce Zcash at universities across Türkiye and encourage students not only to learn about Zcash, but to actually use it.

Application Owners @sacha-l, @JoinWebZero Organization Name WebZero How did you learn about Zcash Community Grants We were a previous recipient for the Zcash Privacy Spaeti hosted in Berlin Requested Grant Amount (USD) 43,524 Category Event Sponsorships Project Lead Additional Team Members Project Summary Hack-to-Dark is a one-day, application-only Zcash privacy hackathon for 75 hand-selected builders, held 500 metres from Devcon 8 in Mumbai on 4 November 2026, with a demo day the following afternoon and an evening cultural programme for 150–200…

Application Owners (@Octocat, @Octocat1) @macintoshhelper Organization Name 1337bytes How did you learn about Zcash Community Grants Previously received grants from ZCG. Requested Grant Amount (USD) $16,800 Category Non-Wallet Applications Project Lead Additional Team Members Project Summary Implement multi-store support for the plugin and replace the RPC layer with a GraphQL backend using Zkool directly.

Application Owners (@Octocat, @Octocat1) @steven3002 Organization Name Steven Hert How did you learn about Zcash Community Grants Through the Zcash Community Forum and the Zcash Community Grants GitHub repository Requested Grant Amount (USD) $8,000 Category Infrastructure Project Lead Additional Team Members Project Summary I have already completed real-node verification, agreed the implementation approach with a GraphSense maintainer, and submitted PR #163 with the parser correction, mainnet fixtures and regression tests.

Application Owners (@Octocat, @Octocat1) @yoditar @SoyAuraBrito @gordonesTV @Edicksonjga @robmarn Organization Name Zcash en Español How did you learn about Zcash Community Grants Being an active member of the Zcash community Requested Grant Amount (USD) 111100.00 Category Education Project Lead Additional Team Members Project Summary This proposal aims to maintain and expand Zcash's financial privacy education initiatives through Zcash en Español in Latin America and Spain between January and December 2026.

Application Owners (@Octocat, @Octocat1) @sidsri14 Organization Name Solana StealthShield How did you learn about Zcash Community Grants Zcash Community Forum / Ecosystem Research Requested Grant Amount (USD) $25,000 Category Security Project Lead Additional Team Members Project Summary Solana StealthShield is a proposed open-source privacy project for exploring non-interactive Curve25519 stealth addressing and a 1-byte view-tag scanning design for high-throughput ecosystems.

Application Owners (@Octocat, @Octocat1) @palmarzk Organization Name Zcash México / Club Zcash Querétaro How did you learn about Zcash Community Grants Having been a member of the community since 2022 and participating on X and the forum. Requested Grant Amount (USD) 7980 Category Event Sponsorships Project Lead Additional Team Members Project Summary We’re organizing a Zcash event during Mexico Tech Week to introduce people to blockchain technology, Zcash ecosystem, privacy, showcase its potential, and connect developers, builders, and enthusiasts.

ZecHub requests $419,361 from Zcash Community Grants to grow Zcash's open-source education hub and onboard contributors. Plans include a visual brand identity, a new ZEC Bounties platform to replace Dework, a shielded newsletter, and using FROST for the ZecHub DAO's wallet operations. Past achievements include onboarding 232 contributors and hosting community events.

Tokensfund requests $90,000 from Zcash Community Grants for a 3-month Bitcointalk signature campaign: 40 high-rank accounts carry an official Zcash banner for 12 weeks, generating ~14,400 posts, plus a monthly ZEC price prediction contest where entrants create shielded addresses to onboard users. Led by Murat with team members handling recruitment, monitoring, and contest moderation, with monthly public reports on the Zcash Community Forum.

Zcash Brazil 2026 is a grant proposal requesting $344,989 to expand privacy education, P2P adoption, and advocacy in Brazil through 11 supported products. Led by Michae2xl, the project proposes agile team coordination with a fixed but non-guaranteed budget for 13 core professionals and partners, adding a junior developer and a motion designer.

Noir Wallet seeks a $50,000 Zcash Community Grant to integrate WalletConnect into its privacy-first browser wallet for Zcash, enabling shielded ZEC to connect with DeFi and Web3 apps. The solution includes wallet discovery in the WalletConnect directory, QR code connections, and a Zcash wallet adapter for dApps, while keeping keys in the wallet. The team is led by CEO Zero and includes operational lead Aescobar plus 10 other developers.

Zk Av Club, led by Ryan Taylor, requests $228,545 from Zcash Community Grants for community media infrastructure and support, including event recording, archiving, and Spanish-language community workshops. Disbursement changed to $63,545 upfront and 12 monthly payments of $13,750 for contributor compensation, with total scope unchanged.

The ZECsy Team requests $550,000 from Zcash Community Grants for a 12-month community building program, delivering Zcash activations at major events. Led by Mylo Bennett, the team includes technical educators and marketing consultants, with rotating field staff and apprentices to support workshops and demos.

Zcash India requests a $20,300 Zcash Community Grant to host Zcash World, a one-day public event in Mumbai on 1 November 2026 with 250-300 attendees, alongside a week-long on-ground activation around Devcon 8. The event focuses on practical shielded ZEC usage, including wallet creation, on-site spending at a Z-BAZAAR marketplace, and merchant onboarding across Mumbai during Devcon week.

Zcash Arabia, led by Mostafa, requests a $27,000 Zcash Community Grant to expand its Arabic-language education and community-building initiative across the MENA region, moving from awareness to sustainable growth by offering accessible content, onboarding paths, and technical workshops for new users and developers.

CopperSeventhLLC and lead developer Joshua Kassabian request a $42,000 Zcash Community Grant to build an open-source Selected-Payment Receipts SDK. The toolkit will let users export and independently verify evidence about specific shielded Zcash payments without sharing reusable viewing keys, and will include a receipt format, reference wallet, verifier CLI, reference app, tests, and documentation.

A sole contributor requests $28,000 to systematically audit Zebra for the bug class behind CVE-2026-40881 (unbounded allocation from peer-supplied counts), fix all unbounded sites upstream with regression tests, and add a CI guard. The applicant has one merged PR (#11420) and will produce a complete inventory of remaining sites.

Independent researcher Sk Sarin Arfin (HSMA) requests $150,000 from Zcash Community Grants to complete production instantiation of a verified cryptographic proof system over Zcash's Pasta curves, including Poseidon-3 R1CS constraints, Homomorphic Pedersen commitments, and a folding-based recursive proof. Includes a 1,600-byte recursive epoch proof verified without the witness, generated in 118ms on ARM64, and a bilingual golden-oracle verification methodology reusable by Zcash developers.

ZIPs For Nerds requests $7,500 to fund six in-depth explainers of the NU7 candidate ZIPs, each written by Wisdom Okechukwu. The series already publishes self-funded articles; this grant adds depth, with articles of ~7,000 words instead of 2,000-3,000. The explainers are published open access and mirrored to the Zcash Community Forum.

Biglup Labs seeks a $30,000 Zcash Community Grant to build a Zcash SeedSigner: an open-source, DIY air-gapped signing device (Raspberry Pi, LCD, camera, ~$50) that signs Ironwood and legacy Orchard PCZTs (ZIP 374) without keys touching an online computer. It will use the same QR protocol as Zodl, working with current releases without wallet changes. The project is led by Angel Castillo, a wallet engineer at IOG, who previously built Cardano SeedSigner, and is a resubmission reduced from $65,000.

Crackdevs requests a $10,000 Zcash Community Grant to turn an existing MVP into a rigorously validated, upstream-ready recovery feature in Argos. The feature lets users recover legacy Sapling and phrase-derived transparent funds from a zcashd emergency recovery phrase without the original wallet.dat. Work includes historical compatibility validation, funded recovery tests on regtest, documentation, and submitting a focused upstream pull request, with Argos maintainers open to review.

Application Owners (@Octocat, @Octocat1) @Povolnov Organization Name US LLC / IDAA UK (#17223770) How did you learn about Zcash Community Grants Zcash Ecosystem Forums & Developer Community Requested Grant Amount (USD) 20000 Category Research & Development Project Lead Additional Team Members Project Summary 1CAD Protocol is an open evidentiary standard for AML / Source-of-Funds and Source-of-Wealth verification.

Rill, a payment product for software agents, requests a $95,000 Zcash Community Grant to add a shielded ZIP-321 payment rail. This enables agents to pay Rill pay links with shielded ZEC via HTTP 402 responses, using a unified address with memos and view-key reconciliation. The founder-led project builds an invoice builder and later lab HTTP implementation, with last-mile delivery explicitly unfunded.

Strahn Cryptography Private Limited requests a $96,000 grant from Zcash Community Grants for research and development of architecture-specific constant-time algorithms for NTTs, Halo2 AST parsing, and ecFFT on x86, STT, and ARM. The goal is to enable enhanced security in hardware wallets by making Halo2 proving pipeline operations viable for constant-time execution, addressing current performance limitations that force wallets to sign challenge scalars without full validation.

A ten-week, $3,000 grant request by Metehan (@Foreveranka) to repair two transaction-history recovery gaps in zcash_client_sqlite (#3005 and #3009), delivering two upstream Rust pull requests, regression tests, and SDK validation. Scope was reduced from $8,500; payment split as $1,500 startup and $1,500 on midpoint acceptance. Issue #2918 excluded as previously declined.

Kestrel + ZecAuth seeks a $12,000 Zcash Community Grant to turn an existing prototype into production infrastructure: Kestrel, an open-source self-custodial Zcash mobile wallet with no KYC; ZecAuth, a wallet-to-application authorization protocol; and KuvarSend integration for African fiat↔ZEC ramps. The team, led by Aderemi Azeez of Kuvarpay Limited, has validated feasibility and will harden, document, test, and release the components, with KYC confined to KuvarSend.

A solo researcher is requesting a $36,300 Zcash Community Grant to build ZecScope, a website tracking every Zcash Improvement Proposal (ZIP) with its stage, network upgrade, and wallet readiness. The project is modeled on Ethereum's Forkcast and covers building, launching, and stabilizing the site; ongoing data maintenance is excluded and would be requested separately.

Application Owners (@Octocat, @Octocat1) arielgabizon Organization Name Ariel Gabizon How did you learn about Zcash Community Grants recent twitter video about ZCG Requested Grant Amount (USD) $8000 Category Security Project Lead Additional Team Members Project Summary Ironwood has recently been formally verified. We want a human readable math paper describing the lean proof. Project Description As said above, the ultimate goal is a human readable math paper following the Ironwood formal verification lean code.

Application Owners (@Octocat, @Octocat1) @ZcashEA Organization Name Zcash East Africa Community How did you learn about Zcash Community Grants Zechub Requested Grant Amount (USD) $11,040 Category Event Sponsorships Project Lead Additional Team Members Project Summary Zcash East Africa will run an onboarding and community activation at the Africa Blockchain Festival 2026 (Oct 15–17, Nairobi), thereby onboarding new users to shielded ZEC and real transactions at a Premium booth, running a merchant-spend side event at Western Delicacy where attendees pay…

Application Owners (@Octocat, @Octocat1) @lana-shanghai Organization Name ZcashMe, Inc. How did you learn about Zcash Community Grants Colleagues Requested Grant Amount (USD) $21,425 Category Security Project Lead Additional Team Members Project Summary A three-month Zcash program at Network School Kazakhstan in Astana Hub. It combines events, wallet onboarding, in-person and online community support, and local research.

Application Owners (@Octocat, @Octocat1) @mahnunchik, @nikashitsa, @dolorozo Organization Name Coin Wallet How did you learn about Zcash Community Grants Colleagues from Unstoppable Wallet (https://github.com/Dadybayo) told us Requested Grant Amount (USD) 100000 Category Wallets Project Lead Additional Team Members Project Summary Add full shielded Zcash support — Unified Addresses, memos, Ironwood pool — to Coin Wallet, a self-custodial multicurrency wallet shipping web, desktop and mobile from one codebase.

This is a $42,000 grant proposal from pseudonymous developer baby-zack-agent to build 'Shielded x402,' a specification and reference implementation for private machine payments on Zcash. The project aims to bridge Zcash with the x402 machine-payment standard, allowing HTTP APIs to accept shielded ZEC via 402 Payment Required flows, and includes a spend-control library for AI agent wallets. The proposal is categorized as infrastructure.

Hanh applies for a $314,000 Zcash Community Grant to maintain and improve the Coin Voting System over one year. The project will rewrite user-facing apps (Rust mobile/desktop, Flutter front end, REST API) to simplify voting for holders and organizers, with milestones including fixes, retroactive grant voting, and async mode.

A grant proposal requests $88,000 for an external offensive-security assessment of Zcash's deployed infrastructure, including websites, light client and indexer servers, CI/CD pipelines, and darknet exposure monitoring of key personnel against a 94B record dataset. The project lead is Phillip Williams, who has a background in cybersecurity and penetration testing.

This grant requests $45,000 from the Zcash Community Grants program to build a continuous differential fuzzing oracle that checks batch-vs-single verification equivalence across all of Zebra's shielded verifiers, including the Ironwood pool. The project extends the existing ZCG #234 fuzzing infrastructure to detect false-accept soundness bugs that could silently admit invalid items into consensus.

A grant proposal requests $30,000 to build coverage-guided fuzzing infrastructure for Zebra, the Zcash Foundation's consensus node. The project will create fuzz targets for critical parsing, networking, and cryptographic components using cargo-fuzz and libFuzzer, integrate into CI via GitHub Actions, and submit to OSS-Fuzz. The lead is an independent developer with 15+ years of experience, joined by a Rust engineer.

Zcash Türkiye requests a $26,400 Zcash Community Grant to sustain and advance Zcash's privacy mission in Türkiye through Q3-Q4 2026 and all of 2027. The project, led by Batuhan with a team of four, produces social media content, monthly in-person events, and educational materials to address the lack of financial privacy awareness among Turkish-speaking communities and build a strong Turkish Zcash community.

ELLIPAL requests $95,000 to add Ironwood shielded transaction support to its TITAN air-gapped hardware wallet, enabling shielding, deshielding, and fully shielded transfers via QR codes. The project includes Pallas/Vesta curve integration, ZIP-32 key derivation, PCZT parsing, and mobile app updates for light wallet sync and transaction UI.

Zcash Ghana requests a $12,600 community grant to scale blockchain education and financial privacy outreach, onboarding Ghanaians and businesses to Zcash through meetups, workshops, hackathons, X-Spaces, and content. Led by Ogasky, the team has hosted 7 X-Space events, 7 physical meetups, and 3 workshops, educating over 400 people, and aims to continue expanding across Ghana and Africa.

Pretty Good Policy for Zcash (PGPZ) requests a $750,000 grant to fund a dedicated policy resource led by Executive Director Divij Pandya. The organization will be governed by a board including Paul Brigner and Michele Korver, focusing on legislative and regulatory advocacy for Zcash and financial privacy.