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Mission Statement
Our goal at ZF is to create tools that help sustain open networks, enabling anyone and everyone to protect their own privacy on their own terms. The essence of privacy itself is being able to choose what is or isn't shared with others. Privacy comprises both autonomy and consent; it is essential to human dignity and the healthy continuation of civil society.
People and Teams
The Zcash Foundation has nearly 15 employees that are distributed across the world. They work on various things such as protocol development, protocol security, protocol governance, business development and managing Zcash community events. The ZF team consists of a board of directors, the engineering team and an operations team, more info here.
Zcash Foundation Grants provides the ecosystem with a means to fund projects that contribute to the privacy ecosystem such as Zebra (an independant node implementation for Zcash) & FROST as well as various other projects through Zcash Open Major Grants , now Zcash Community Grants Committee.
The Foundation also holds Zcon, a yearly in-person conference centered on the Zcash ecosystem and supports grassroots, community initiatives such as Zcon Vozes regional specific conferences, the Zcash Foundation A/V Club and various other open community calls and AMA's.
The Zcash Foundation enforces the Zcash Trademark policy per the conditions of it's donation by the Electric Coin Co. which helps "Protect the reputation of Zcash, its associated entities, and the Zcash community" by "identify(ing) official sources of information, reducing the likelihood of fraudulent or incorrect information" and "Identify(ing) official apps and services,reducing the likelihood of fraudulent activities."
Organizational Structure
The Zcash Foundation is a 501(c)(3) not for profit organization. In addition to their team, they have a board of directors.
Funding
The Zcash Foundation receives 5% of the Zcash development fund. Their use of finances can be seen in their quarterly Transparency Reports.
Zcash Community Grants Program
This program funds independent teams to perform major ongoing development (or other work) that benefits the Zcash ecosystem. Grants are chosen by a five-person committee elected by the Zcash community. Teams and organizations that are interested in advancing the usability, security, privacy and adoption of Zcash are strongly encouraged to apply for a Zcash Community Grant.
Zcash Minor Grants Program
(Currently closed) https://zfnd.org/zcash-minor-grants-april-2023/
On February 22, 2023, a new experimental credit program from the Zcash Foundation (ZF) was announced, which we call “Minor Grants”. It is intended to complement the Major Grants program (also known as Zcash Community Grants) by providing a source of funding for smaller grants. Hopefully, this will reduce the number of minor grant grants that are submitted to the ZCG, allowing them to focus their attention on larger, more controlled grants that are more in line with what the Major Grants program financially intends. Additionally, I would like to create a channel for subordinating titles that are not directly related to Zcash, but that explore broader applications of zero-knowledge proofs or other approaches to financial privacy, in line with our charitable purpose.
The Application Process
Applications should be submitted through the ZF concessions platform and applicants should agree to sign the ZF concession agreement and go through the ZF KYC process if the application is successful.
The deadline for submitting a grant application is 22 February 2023, 9:00 am UTC on Monday 20 March 2023.
The Voting Process
On April 17, we published the list of grant applications that will be submitted to ZCAP for approval.
List of Grant Applications
Aprendamos de Criptos y Blockchain (trans. Let’s learn about Crypto and Blockchain)
The ZCAP poll opened on April 3 and closed at 09:00 UTC on April 17, 2023.
The voting process was done by Zcap members,and 102 people voted , at the end of the poll, 4 projects were chosen to receive Minor Grants
List of selected projects
Research on Zcash’s KYC-Free Infrastructure (65 votes)
Zcast, el podcast de Zcash en Español (55 votes)
