ZEC: Zcash Co-founder Sean Bowe Proposes Ending ZCG Funding Stream, Citing $125M Treasury

Published: 27 October 2026

ZEC market note dated 27 October 2026. This is an independent English brief of a public news item; it does not add trade levels.

What happened

• Zcash (ZEC) co-founder Sean Bowe proposed on Monday to end the 8% block reward share paid to Zcash Community Grants (ZCG), saying the program already holds over $125 million. Bowe filed the change as a draft Zcash Improvement Proposal (ZIP) that would send that reward share to t…

What the figures mean

Independent check on the printed figures (125M, 8%, 125 million, 8217): confirm the unit, the session or as-of timestamp, and whether the number is a flow, a price, a rate, or a count before treating the headline as a directional call for ZEC. This page restates source figures; it does not invent a second dataset.

Why it matters

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What to watch

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