ZCG and the Dev Fund: Timeline for Proposals and Polling

Various stakeholders have taken part, including development and wallet teams, ZCG grantees, longtime community members, RPC and explorer operators, Zcash’s two largest miners, and traditional finance holding companies. The range of perspectives in the discussion reflects Zcash’s decentralized nature. To move this discussion forward, Project Tachyon, Shielded Labs, Valar Group, the Zcash Foundation, and ZODL (the five organizations responsible for coordinating the coinholder voting chain) are putting forward a timeline for proposal submissions, public discussion, and polling. If there’s rough consensus on a proposal, we’ll support a network upgrade, NU 7.1 , to implement it. We’ve set an expedited timeline because tensions were high. Several key stakeholders have expressed support for a compromise, while others have put forward alternatives. We want to give each proposal a fair hearing and move to polling while people are still willing to find common ground. Drawing out the debate risks deepening divisions with