Dev Fund 2.0 / The Future of Zcash Ecosystem Funding - ZconV: Zcash Unified 2024

With the end of the current Dev Fund due in November 2024, the community has been discussing whether it should be replaced with a new Dev Fund and what it should look like. This panel brings together the leaders of ECC and the Zcash Foundation, together with two community members, Noamchom and GGuy (who is also a member of the Zcash Community Grants committee), who have put forward proposals for a new Dev Fund. The panel participants will have an opportunity to share their views on the future of funding in the Zcash ecosystem and to answer questions from the community. The panel will be chaired by Peter van Valkenburgh, director of research at Coin Center, and Zcash Foundation board member.

Forum Discussion on Moving the Dev Fund discussion forward: https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/mo...

Technical Level: Basic

Timestamps:
0:00 Intros
12:13 Ecosystem processes and mechanisms
24:21 Trademark agreement
37:14 Dev Fund models
1:08:26 Does a grant model drive better outcomes?
1:29:47 Building during the next epoch

Panel Chair:
-Peter Van Valkenburgh is a board member of the Zcash Foundation and Director of Research at Coin Center, the leading non-profit research and advocacy group focused on the public policy issues facing cryptocurrency technologies such as Bitcoin. He is a graduate of NYU Law, as well as a self-taught web developer. He drafts the Center’s public regulatory comments, and helps shape its research agenda. He has testified before Congress, briefed staff and members of the EU parliament, and educated policymakers and regulatory staff around the world on the subject of cryptocurrency regulation and decentralized computing systems. Twitter: @valkenburgh

Panelists:
-GGuy is an active member of the Zcash community and serves on the Zcash Community Grants Committee. He is dedicated to promoting the funding of innovative projects within the Zcash ecosystem. His advocacy extends beyond his committee role, contributing to broader discussions on governance and funding models within the Zcash ecosystem. Twitter: @babygguy

-NoamChom is a Senior Software Test Engineer by day, initiated into Bitcoin/ Crypto 2013 and haven’t left yet, Activist Investor, World Traveler, Father, and Husband.

-Josh Swihart is CEO at Electric Coin Co. (ECC). Prior to ECC, he served as the SVP of Global Marketing for K2, leading global growth from start-up to acquisition by Francisco Partners. He began his career as software engineer and has served as a global practice principal for EMC, the CEO of Aspenware, and VP of software development for 3t Systems. Josh has received numerous global and national awards for leadership, marketing and solution delivery. He is an advocate for underserved and/or exploited people all over the world, most actively with those living in the slums of Mumbai and Pune, India. Twitter: @jswihart

-Jack Gavigan has a background in financial technology, with over ten years’ working with major financial institutions such as Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse, and Morgan Stanley, where he also spent a year as a trader. He joined Team Zcash in early 2016, as an advisor to the Electric Coin Company (ECC), and subsequently joined the company full-time, serving in a number of roles, including COO and Head of Regulatory Relations. He left ECC in early 2021 to become Executive Director of the Zcash Foundation. Twitter: @JackGavigan

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