Zcash co-founder calls to stop funding ‘over $125M’ grants program

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.

Zcash co-founder Sean Bowe proposed ending the automatic funding stream to Zcash Community Grants (ZCG), saying its treasury was large enough to continue funding projects without further automatic payments.

“ZCG has over $125M in funding, and will receive millions more before the spigot is turned off,” Bowe said Tuesday on X. “The program was never designed to handle this amount of funding.” 

Bowe shared a draft GitHub proposal that would redirect ZCG’s 8% share of the Zcash (ZEC) block subsidy to the network’s sustainability reserve, while leaving its existing funds untouched.

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