Zcash community approves $8.4M in retroactive grants for developers and security researchers who identified and fixed the Orchard vulnerability.
Regulation & Gov ·
Zcash's community has approved retroactive grants totaling $8.39 million across 17 proposals, according to reporting on the vote. Zooko Wilcox, Zcash co-founder, indicated that the funding includes several million dollars directed to developers and security researchers who identified and resolved the critical Orchard vulnerability, conducted code audits, and delivered the Ironwood upgrade. Approximately 2.18 million ZEC tokens participated in the community vote.
The grants represent a retroactive recognition of work already completed on protocol security and vulnerability remediation. The Orchard vulnerability resolution involved coordination across multiple contributors—those who discovered the issue, those who implemented fixes, and those who audited the resulting code changes.
The vote reflects Zcash's community governance model, though the specifics of how the 17 individual proposals were structured, which received the largest allocations, and how the funds will be distributed remain undisclosed in available reports.