What OpenZcash is: open work on Zcash. Now, a future built together.

WHAT WE HAVE BUILT SO FAR

OpenZcash began with a desire to make Zcash easier to understand: bring scattered information together, connect records to their sources and help more people participate in the ecosystem.

We have done pioneering work exploring AI as a way to access information about Zcash, through Zarvis and our copilots. We built ways to query data, follow projects and discuss governance. "Since Block Zero" brought Zcash's funding history into one view, starting at genesis. This work opened doors for new tools, integrations and community conversations.

We are proud of this work. It also depends on the sources, teams and people building Zcash every day. We want to keep contributing and expand that effort with anyone who wants to take part.

THE NEXT CHAPTER

OpenZcash will focus on maintaining and improving the tools we have already built for the community.

The maintained OpenZcash codebase will be open source under MIT. We want others to study, verify, reuse, improve and build on our work while preserving attribution.

We will not apply for a grant for OpenZcash: not to ZCG, and not to the Coinholder retroactive grants. Instead, we will open a channel for voluntary donations to sustain maintenance, infrastructure, research and development. Anyone who finds OpenZcash useful will be able to support its continuity.

A TREASURY THE COMMUNITY CAN INSPECT

The new OpenZcash Treasury page will be the project's own accountability space. We will publish a dedicated wallet's address and viewing key so the community can follow the treasury and inspect its records independently.

Our commitment is to keep receipts, expenses, the balance and the purpose of spending available for inspection, alongside the last synchronization date and supporting records. A viewing key reveals account data but cannot spend its funds. We will pair it with records explaining expenses: transparency also means giving the numbers context.

Donors should know that amounts and memos for this account may be visible. Please keep personal information out of memos. OpenZcash's treasury will remain separate from the program funds we track.

A memo can also say what a donation is for. If you want to reward Michae2xl directly for the work already delivered, write it in the memo, for example "For Michae2xl: retroactive work". Memos for this account are publicly viewable, so everyone can see how each donation was designated. Donations without that note go entirely to maintenance and improvements.

MORE PEOPLE BUILDING TOGETHER

We want to welcome developers, designers, researchers, translators and new members. A contribution can start with a correction, a test, an idea or an explanation that helps someone else understand Zcash.

As resources become available, we want to offer incentives for these contributions. Opportunities will have a clear scope, budget and acceptance criteria before work begins. Deliveries and payments will be part of the public record.

We leave this letter open to the community. Contributions of work, ideas, criticism or donations are welcome. We are proud of how far we have come and want to keep building. More hands can help write the next chapter, with the work and the treasury in the open.