Zcash Coinholder Retroactive Grant results are in! Honestly, I’m surprised at the results… What got funded: most of the bigger asks got funded, which were mostly for critical infrastructure, ironwood work, and critical bug reports. A clear signal that coinholders are very willing to fund core infrastructure and critical security. What didn’t get funded: smaller asks which tended to be more experimental ideas or non-core tools. I actually thought some of the tools there were useful and should be funded, while others were a bit more“me too” and vibe coded. For some of the smaller amounts I would have voted yes. A few ways to interpret this: - Coinholders didn’t like the projects at all and didn’t want to fund them - Coinholders viewed them as non-critical and not what CHV should be used for - Coinholders don’t want to administer a small grants program and hope to discourage lots of low effort submissions in the future Given that @ZcashLabs had the smallest grant approved, I think it may be signal that coinholders are supportive of small grants programs but not of directly voting on every small grant. That said, I would have expected some of the other small grants to be approved as an example of which small grants Coinholders would like to see funded. Decentralized funding just got very interesting. Looking forward to see how the next round shapes up. forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/q…

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