The first Exploratory Dev Fund poll has now closed and the results are in!
The purpose of this poll is to solicit input from the Zcash community regarding a potential future Dev Fund, with a view to drafting a formal proposal based on that feedback.
To be clear: the purpose of this poll is not to reach a formal decision regarding what should happen in November. Instead, this poll is intended to solicit feedback from the community that ZF will then use to draft a proposal that can be evaluated and discussed alongside other proposals.
The percentages displayed below are based on the total number of votes cast (140).
Q1: Should a new Dev Fund be put in place when the current Dev Fund ends in November 2024?
- Yes – 100 votes (71.4%)
- No – 40 votes (28.6%)
Q2: If there is to be a new Dev Fund, should its recipients’ allocations reduce over time, with the balance allocated to an Unissued Reserve, as proposed by GGuy?
- Yes – 48 votes (34.3%)
- No, recipients’ allocation should remain constant for the duration of the new Dev Fund. – 89 votes (63.6%)
Q3: If there is to be a new Dev Fund, how long should it last?
- 1 year – 49 votes (35%)
- 18 months – 3 votes (2.1%)
- 2 years – 51 votes (36.4%)
- 3 years – 7 votes (5%)
- 4 years – 24 votes (17.1%)
Q4: Which organizations and programs should receive funding from a new Dev Fund?
- Bootstrap Project (parent of the Electric Coin Company) – 91 votes (65% approval)
- Financial Privacy Foundation – 57 votes (40.7% approval)
- a Legal Defense Fund – 46 votes (32.9% approval)
- QEDIT – 52 votes (37.1% approval)
- Zcash Community Grants program – 97 votes (69.3% approval)
- Zcash Foundation – 99 votes (70.7% approval)
- ZecHub – 67 votes (47.9% approval)
We’ll now take some time – and give the community time – to digest, consider and discuss these results, along with the results of other polls that are being conducted across the community.
We plan to run a second exploratory poll alongside the ZCG committee election that will take place later this month.