{"id":678355,"date":"2026-10-30T11:53:39","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T11:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/10\/30\/zcash-grants-group-offers-124m-compromise-as-governance-backlash-grows\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T11:53:39","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T11:53:39","slug":"zcash-grants-group-offers-124m-compromise-as-governance-backlash-grows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/10\/30\/zcash-grants-group-offers-124m-compromise-as-governance-backlash-grows\/","title":{"rendered":"Zcash grants group offers $124M compromise as governance backlash grows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-images.ctmedia.io\/media\/article-covers\/2026\/10\/01M668WKWWM9YJGJA1PV483QEA\/zcash-proposal-grant-allocation.jpg\" alt=\"Zcash grants group offers $124M compromise as governance backlash grows\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Zcash Community Grants proposed redirecting about $124 million in existing and future funding toward mining rewards, but critics say the plan fails to address governance and accountability concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Zcash Community Grants (ZCG) has proposed redirecting about $46 million in Zcash tokens from its treasury to future block rewards, but industry figures criticized the move, demanding greater accountability for the fund.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, ZCG <a href=\"https:\/\/forum.zcashcommunity.com\/t\/zcg-gets-too-much-zec-heres-our-plan-to-fix-that\/58566\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">proposed<\/a> transferring 36,200 ZEC from its roughly 91,500-ZEC treasury to the Network Sustainability Mechanism (NSM), which reserves coins for future mining rewards. If approved, the committee would retain about 55,200 ZEC, worth about $70 million at the time of writing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The group also proposed forgoing about 62,000 ZEC ($78.5 million) in future allocations and tapering its remaining funding until the 2032 halving. Together, the changes would redirect about 98,000 ZEC (about $124 million) toward future block rewards.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/zcash-grants-46m-proposal-governance-backlash\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zcash Community Grants proposed redirecting about $124 million in existing and future funding toward mining rewards, but critics say the plan fails to address governance and accountability concerns. Zcash Community Grants (ZCG) has proposed redirecting about $46 million in Zcash tokens from its treasury to future block rewards, but industry figures criticized the move, demanding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":678356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-678355","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}