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New projects
We make direct, upfront payments to teams building useful Zcash products and services.
// Upfront funding model
Funding useful Zcash work upfront
We pay for projects, integrations, infrastructure, and co-marketing before work begins. We then seek repayment through the coinholder retroactive-grants process.
// How it works
A market-driven model
Zcash Labs covers costs upfront, including direct payments to the teams we support. In each retroactive-grants period, we seek reimbursement from coinholders, plus a 20% markup to cover financial risk and operating costs.
Coinholders decide whether to reimburse each request. If a request is not funded, we bear the cost. That keeps our incentives aligned with the work that coinholders value.
We are pioneering this model to help useful work start sooner and to create a path that others can replicate.
// What we fund
Where we put capital to work
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Integrations
We cover the technical work needed to help businesses and institutions use Zcash.
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Infrastructure
We fund the costs of independent services that give users and integrators more ways to access the network.
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Co-marketing
We coordinate Zcash co-marketing that helps supported projects reach the right audiences.
// Funded projects
Projects we have backed
// Requests
Funding requests
Coming soon
We will publish the requests we plan to make through the coinholder grants process here.