The Zcash Foundation, a public charity devoted to privacy protocol Zcash, will elect new members to its Community Advisory Panel (CAP) to ensure a better community-driven process for the deployment of over 420,000 ZEC ($36 million at press time), according to a release.
Five members will be selected based on their understanding of Zcash and its broader token applications, said the Foundation. As per Zcash founder Zooko Wilcox, “the new five-person committee is going to be the largest controller of funds in the ecosystem for the foreseeable future.”
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The CAP is a Zcash Foundation-vetted board of community members that helps drive governance decisions for Zcash. None of these decisions, however, are binding, and members cannot determine any major technical changes to the Zcash network (such as implementing a hard fork), the Foundation noted.
Addressing community demand
The issue began with commentary on the Zcash governance forum that called for opening up the CAP to newer members. After that, more than 35 members (in the past months) told the Foundation they were interested in joining it.
Considering these, the Foundation, in consultation with Zcash code maintainer Electric Coin Company, agreed to the community demand. “The Foundation wholeheartedly agrees with this sentiment and believes we can more broadly increase participation legitimately prior to the September 1 candidacy deadline,” it said today.
Zcash (ZEC) has just pumped more than 11% to reach a current value of $66.02—its highest value in more than five months. The move continues a month of near-perpetual growth, which has seen ZEC more than double in value in the last 30 days.
This recent bullish price action comes less than a day after the Zcash community voted to introduce a new version of its mining reward scheme, which will see 80% of block rewards distributed to miners, whereas two of the project's major supporters—Electric Coi...
“We believe opening up the CAP with this process is completely aligned with the community interest, and would result in a more effective and legitimate outcome based on past experience collecting community sentiment in a similar manner for the dev fund Zcash Implementation Proposals,” the Foundation added.
Members can join in two ways. First, any members of the current 62-member Community Advisory Panel can opt-in by September 1, or second, receive an invite from a current member by September 1.
The move comes as community-driven governance—driven by the likes of DeFi projects like Yearn Finance—is starting to gain prominence among the broader crypto space.
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