Decisions that bind the whole network: every upgrade and how it was decided, coinholder polls on protocol and funding, and what is still open. Grant decisions live with the bodies that take them.
Decided byZIP process and coinholderseach row names its process
Network upgrades
11
latest Jul 28, 2026
Coinholder polls
10
4 decided · 6 advisory or informal
Still being decided
3
NU7, Crosslink and NSM
Largest poll
2.4M ZEC
NU7 Scope coinholder vote
Every activated upgrade with its block, the process that decided it, its ZIP and the Arborist calls whose agenda named it.
Protocol work that Arborist call agendas keep returning to, not yet activated on mainnet.
Coin-weighted polls on the protocol and the funding model. Polls about the coinholder fund's grants live with the fund.
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| Sep 14, 2026 | Decided | NU7 Scope coinholder votePreserve halvings; reissuance Feb 2031; v4 off at NU7; 25s blocks; ship by deadline. · up to 2.4M ZEC per question | Coin-weighted poll | Results ↗Source ↗ |
| Jun 7, 2026 | Paused | NU7 sentiment poll via Zodl (planned)Paused on 2026-06-07 after the Ironwood (NU6.3) decision; no votes tallied. Questions reused in the Aug-Sep vote. | Poll organizers | Results ↗ |
| Feb 20, 2026 | Advisory | Coinholder: Protocol Feature Sentiment Poll (NU7 sentiment, 11 questions)Advisory. ZF summary: consensus on Tachyon, quantum recoverability, explicit fees, fee burning; ZSAs and others contested. · up to 1.24M ZEC per question | Coin-weighted poll | Results ↗Source ↗ |
| May 1, 2025 | Decided | Coinholder poll on funding-model ZIPs (Dev Fund 2025)C&C favored (also top in ZCAP and ZAC Helios polls); became ZIP 1016, activated with NU6.1 on 2025-11-24. · up to 1.13M ZEC per question | Coin-weighted poll | Results ↗Source ↗ |
| Dec 8, 2024 | Advisory | Coinholder Poll: include NSM in NU7?All weight Yes; some No ballots carried zero weight; a participant reported a lost No vote. Non-binding. · 264.61K ZEC voted | Coin-weighted poll | Results ↗ |
| Jul 28, 2024 | Decided | Coinholder Dev Fund runoff poll (YWallet)Hybrid Deferred won here and in ZCAP/other runoffs; became ZIP 1015, activated in NU6 (2024-11-23). · 300.85K ZEC voted | Coin-weighted poll | Results ↗Source ↗ |
| Jul 15, 2024 | Decided | Coinholder Dev Fund proposal polls #1 and #2 (YWallet)Hybrid Deferred led; top two (Hybrid Deferred, Lockbox 20%) went to a runoff. · up to 461.18K ZEC per question | Coin-weighted poll | Results ↗Source ↗ |
| Oct 1, 2021 | Advisory | ECC coin-holder poll: post-NU5 priorities and ZIP 1014 amendmentsNon-binding input to ECC roadmap research. | Coin-weighted poll | Results ↗Source ↗ |
| Dec 2, 2019 | Informal | Staked Poll on Zcash Dev Fund Debate (coin-weighted petition)Unofficial; ZF said it was not an official input. ZIP 1014 came from ZF's separate sentiment collection. | Coin-weighted poll | Results ↗Source ↗ |
| Aug 2, 2019 | Informal | First Coin Holder's Straw Poll (NU3 codename)NU3 was later named Heartwood; the thread does not document how the poll was used. | Coin-weighted poll | Results ↗ |
Upgrade heights from a Zebra node; the process behind each upgrade from its ZIPs and the community forum. Polls from their published results; tests of the voting tools are left out. Arborist links use the call agendas only, so a call that discussed a topic without naming it on the agenda is not linked.
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