Future Dev and Legal Defense Fund ZIP

twitter and bluesky.) Tachyon Group (led by Sean Bowe) and Shielded Labs just posted a proposal to end future funding of the Zcash Community Grants program and reduce its treasury. The Zcash community is going through a governance crisis. Sounds bad! Feels bad. Although it helps to remind myself that this has happened many times before—I’ve lost count—and things have always turned out okay before. One of the flashpoints of the current disagreement has to do with the Zcash Community Grants program, which suddenly grown to have a *much* bigger amount of money and importance due to the price of ZEC rising. For background, please see this post I wrote last June about ZCG’s finances and what changes we should consider: Should we change how we use the Dev Fund? There are a number of proposals out there (Zcash Improvement Proposals—ZIPs) to defund the Zcash Community Grants program in various ways, along with posts attacking the legitimacy of the program. However, the program was necessary to sustain and develop Zcash for many years, including funding the only working wallets for years, and the development