Retroactive Grant Application - Zcash Testnet Developer Suite

pays shielded testnet TAZ with no account or captcha, and a one-command testnet wallet with address, QR, funding, and a payment watcher — built to remove the first-hour onboarding friction that blocks new Zcash developers and hackathon teams. Project Description Getting testnet ZEC (TAZ) kept blocking new developers, hackathon teams, and Zecathon projects. The existing paths were slow: a 15–30 minute Rust build for zcash-devtool with no prebuilt binaries, zingolib tags with no files, a bare zkool2 binary, and WebZjs pre-Ironwood and not on npm — all before a first shielded transaction. I built two MIT-licensed tools, both shipped and live on testnet in 30 Oct – 7 Nov 2026: zcash-faucet — npx zcash-faucet . No account, no captcha. Your machine mines a short Argon2id proof-of-work (about 10–60 seconds, 19 MiB memory), then 0.1 TAZ arrives as a real shielded transaction. Supports unified (utest1…), Sapling, and transparent addresses; rejects mainnet