ZecWeekly #57

Zcash Minor Grants Opens for Applicants, Community Updates & Remember, "Privacy is Normal"

Curated by "Tony Akins"(@Tonyakins01)

Welcome to ZecWeekly

Another exciting week for Zcash as the community garnered immense support and new waves of growth, ZecHub sharing a Magazine article, Arborist Development updates and the community reacts to attack on developers freedom of speech.

This week's education piece 👨‍🏫

Breakdown the differences between Zero Knowledge Shielded pools and Decoy-based anonymity in the recent addition to the ZecHub wiki. An introduction to Shielded Pools, Zero Knowledge proofs, Ring Signatures & Confidential Transactions. Comparisons are then drawn giving clear reasoning behind why Zcash provides preferable on-chain privacy guarantees.

Read here: 🛡️Shielded Pools vs ⭕Decoy-based systems

Zcash Updates

ECC & ZF Updates

• Applications🗎 Open for Second Round of ZF Minor Grants

• ECC teams focus on wallet performance

• ZFAV Club publishes 📚guides for content creators

Zcash Community Grants Updates

• Ecosystem Security Update

• Proposal for 🇧🇷Brazilian Privacy Alliance

• ZFAV Community Grants Pilot episodes

Community Projects

• Quotes about Privacy🗣️ - Topcrypto

• Zcash Espanol held a Zcon4 Recap event!

• Arborist 🌳call Summary

• @Zulakyz write up on ZecHub Extras NFT

• Cypherpunk Zero short story - Zerodartz🔥

• Translations needed for Nighthawk Wallet

News & Media

• Ethereum Staking💹 Is Booming - Decrypt

• Why did privacy become a bad word? - Coindesk

• OnlyFans Accounts Take Over Friend.tech - Decrypt

• Spanish🇪🇸 central bank official talks about private digital euro - Cointelegraph

• Lido gains increasing stake of Ethereum - Trustnodes

• Visions of a Decentralised Future - Cypherpunk Times

• Weekly Roundup - On the Brink

Some Zcash Tweets

• 👉The difference between Monero & Zcash

• Big announcement coming soon? - TrendsXBT

• Extensive upgrades being made to Nighthawk

• Ranked Strawpoll 📊of Zcash Priorities

• ZeroDAO promotes Zcash DeFi

• Privacy is still normal

• Thanks from ZcashEsp!

• FROST ❄️Demo Video on Youtube

• Anonymous birthday wishes by Zcash Memo

• How you guys doing with ZEC?

• Are spammers doing good for the network?

• Zcashd helper scripts from Dismad :)

• We are for freedom - @zcash

• ZecHub Magazine article about Privacy Pools

• Joel Valenzuela with more 📽️perspective on Tornado Cash

Zeme of the Week

https://twitter.com/ZFAVClub/status/1694817298677113308

Jobs in the Ecosystem

• ZecWeekly #58 Community Newsletter

• Run Zcash Full Node on Akash Network