Zcash Community Grants

About Zcash Community Grants

The Zcash Community Grants program (formerly known as ZOMG) funds independent teams entering the Zcash ecosystem, to perform major ongoing development (or other work) for the public good of the Zcash ecosystem.

Funding for Zcash Community Grants comes from the Major Grants slice of the Zcash Dev Fund. Grants are chosen by a five-person committee elected by the Zcash Community.

Our Funding Source

ZIP-1014, voted and agreed upon by the Zcash community, provides ongoing major grant funding to the ecosystem through 8% of the Zcash mining reward until the second halving in 2024.

Zcash Community Grants has:

~100,000 ZEC which equates to
$11M USD at $110 ZECUSD

Check this dashboard for the most up to date figures.

What We're Ready To Fund

This wishlist is meant to encourage ideas for potential applicants to improve the Zcash ecosystem and is not exhaustive. If your idea to improve Zcash doesn’t fit exactly, feel free to surprise us with your proposal!

Open RFPs

Wallets

Zcash hardware wallet support
Key-management tools
Physical storage (paper wallets or lightweight hardware)
Shielded wallets for smartphones (iOS/Android/GTK/Plasma Mobile)
Web or Desktop wallets
Payment URIs
Easy one-click shielded payments
Easy multi-sig tools for Shielded Addresses (e.g. an implementation of FROST in user-facing wallets)
Point-of-sale for brick and mortar shops

SDK

Zcash SDK based on Mozilla UniFFI - a multi-language bindings generator for Rust
Wallet API and SDK libraries for iOS/Android
React Native SDK and libraries
Network layer privacy solutions for light client SDKs and libraries
Performance improvements to Mobile SDKs and libraries

Core

Developer documentation
Translations of existing documentation
Unified Address support & implementation by exchanges
R&D Decentralized light client syncing
R&D on "voting keys" and "time weighted voting"
Audits for updated Zcash software

Interoperability

Atomic swaps
Zcash on Ethereum, wrapped ZEC
Stablecoins on Zcash, ZUSD

Zapps

Application on top of Zcash network
Integrating native ZEC in end user apps

Ongoing Services

Accurate Blockchain Explorer
Proving Key Distribution
Light client servers / infrastructure

Education

Improving "Zcash Protocol Spec" for developers
Videos and tutorials about how to use Zcash securely
User education: T-addresses vs. Shielded/Unified Addresses
Websites with educational resources

Ecosystem

Global Ambassador Program
Podcasts
Note taking for protocol development meeting (via GitHub or Twitter thread)

Projects We've Funded

These are some of the projects we've funded so far:

Ywallet by Hanh

A performant, full-featured light wallet for mobile and desktop
ZecHub by ZecHub

Growing Zcash’s open-source education hub and onboarding new contributors to Zcash
Free2z by Free2Z

A web3 platform powered by Zcash that empowers content creators
Shielded Support for Ledger Hardware Wallets by Hanh

The first implementation of shielded Zcash on a hardware wallet
Zcash-Avalanche Elastic Subnet Bridge by red·dev

Bridging assets between Zcash and Avalanche using permissionless Subnet architecture
Shielded Assets on Zcash by QEDIT

Bringing DeFi to ZEC with Zcash Shielded Assets (ZSAs)
Zcash Media by Zcash Media

A premiere educational platform about Zcash, privacy, and related issues.

Check this dashboard for a complete list of grants and milestones paid.