Zcash Co-Founder Calls for Halt to Controversial $125M Grants Funding Amid Split in Community

10/27/2026

Zcash co-founder Sean Bowe has proposed ending the project’s automatic funding stream to the Zcash Community Grants (ZCG) program, arguing the grants treasury is already sufficiently resourced to...

10/27/2026

Zcash co-founder Sean Bowe has proposed halting the automatic 8% ZEC allocation to Zcash Community Grants, citing a treasury of about $125 million. TLDR Zcash co-founder Sean Bowe has proposed...

10/27/2026

Sean Bowe says ZCG has enough money to keep funding projects and wants its share of new ZEC redirected to a reserve for the network.

10/27/2026

Sean Bowe’s proposal would send the committee’s 8% share of newly created ZEC to a reserve for future miners. The committee would keep the money it has already received.

10/27/2026

Zcash co-founders Josh Swihart and Sean Bowe are engaged in a public dispute over a Bowe-fronted proposal to cut off and reroute the 8% block reward pipeline that funds the Zcash Community Grants...

10/27/2026

Zcash developers are now focusing on where to redirect funding away from ZCG, which already holds over $100 million in its treasury.

10/27/2026

Zcash faces competing proposals to scrap or extend developer subsidies as growing investor interest swells the privacy network's funding reserves. The debate intensified after Zcash co-founder...

10/27/2026

A new draft ZIP would end Zcash Community Grants' 8% block-subsidy stream and redirect it to the Network Sustainability Mechanism, sparking community debate.