ZecHub: Protocol Feature Sentiment Poll
public election created by
Jason McGee
This poll is intended to gauge coinholder and community sentiment on a set of proposed
Zcash protocol features and initiatives. It includes 11 questions, each focused on a
specific proposal that is either completed or expected to be ready within the next year.
The goal is to better understand where there is alignment, uncertainty, or divergence in
sentiment across the ecosystem.
Participants are encouraged to take their time when responding. We recommend reviewing
the relevant proposals, discussing them with others, and making informed, thoughtful
decisions. For each question, there are two options: support or oppose. If you wish to
abstain on a particular question, simply skip that question. The poll will remain open
until Friday, February 20 at 8:00pm UTC. If it becomes clear that additional time is needed
for review or discussion, the polling period may be extended.
To help respondents make informed decisions when participating in the poll, background
information and relevant forum discussions for each question are available at the
following link:
https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/nu7-sentiment-polling-informational-links/54462
This poll is one of several taking place in parallel, all asking the same questions.
Responses will be collected across multiple groups, including coinholders, ZCAP, and
various engineering and community panels. Once polling concludes, results will be
compared across all groups to assess whether there is clear, broad consensus.
Individual poll results are advisory and non-binding on their own, and are evaluated
together with all other poll results to assess whether there is clear consensus. If
results are close or unclear, the organizers may run additional polling or a follow-up
round to better understand community sentiment.
Voting start at 2026-01-29 15:30 UTC
Voting end at 2026-02-20 20:00 UTC
questions (11)
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voters & ballots
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trustees (1)
This election is complete.
Tally
Question #1
What is your general sentiment toward including Zcash Shielded Assets (ZSAs) as a protocol feature?
Question #2
What is your general sentiment toward adding protocol support for the Network Sustainability Mechanism (NSM), including smoothing the issuance curve, which allows ZEC to be removed from circulation and later reissued as future block rewards to help sustain network security while preserving the 21 million ZEC supply cap?
Question #3
What is your general sentiment toward burning 60% of transaction fees via the Network Sustainability Mechanism (NSM)? The goals are to demonstrate Zcash’s commitment to long-term sustainability, to burn ZEC so that it can be re-issued in the future without exceeding the 21M supply cap, and in the context of dynamic fees, to prevent miners from manipulating fees.
Question #4
What is your general sentiment toward including Memo Bundles, which let transactions include memos larger than 512 bytes and share a memo across multiple recipients, and also permits inclusion of authenticated reply-to addresses, as a protocol feature?
Question #5
What is your general sentiment toward adding protocol support to enable Explicit Fees, allowing transaction fees to be clearly specified and committed to in the transaction?
Question #6
What is your general sentiment toward reducing the complexity and attack surface of the Zcash protocol by disallowing v4 transactions? This would disable the ability to spend Sprout funds, for which there will be no wallet support in any case after the prior deprecation of zcashd.
Question #7
What is your general sentiment toward deploying a new shielded protocol or pool to address scalability challenges as part of Project Tachyon?
Question #8
What is your general sentiment toward adding protocol support for STARK proof verification via Transparent Zcash Extensions (TZEs) to enable Layer-2 designs on Zcash?
Question #9
What is your general sentiment toward adding protocol support for a comparable-based, dynamic fee mechanism?
Question #10
What is your general sentiment toward adding protocol support for consensus accounts, which generalize the functionality of the dev fund lockbox and reduce the operational expense of collecting ZCG funds and miner rewards?
Question #11
What is your general sentiment toward "Orchard quantum recoverability", which aims to ensure that if the security of elliptic curve-based cryptography came into doubt (due to the emergence of a cryptographically relevant quantum computer or otherwise), then new Orchard funds could remain recoverable by a later protocol — as opposed to having to be burnt in order to avoid an unbounded balance violation?