{"id":145112,"date":"2026-09-21T07:15:42","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T07:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=145112"},"modified":"2026-09-21T07:15:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T07:15:42","slug":"dragonflys-haseeb-qureshi-calls-for-zcash-dev-fund-to-end-after-2028","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=145112","title":{"rendered":"Dragonfly\u2019s Haseeb Qureshi Calls For Zcash Dev Fund To End After 2028"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>TL;DR<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dragonfly\u2019s Haseeb Qureshi says Zcash should let its developer fund expire after 2028.<\/li>\n<li>The fund currently receives 20% of block rewards.<\/li>\n<li>This is a personal recommendation, not a binding governance proposal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>https:\/\/x.com\/haseeb\/status\/2061123456789012345<\/p>\n<p>A new argument over Zcash funding has started, and this one goes straight to the heart of how the network pays for its own development.<\/p>\n<p>Dragonfly General Partner Haseeb Qureshi has argued that Zcash should allow its developer fund to expire after 2028 rather than extending it again.<\/p>\n<p>The existing structure directs 20% of Zcash block rewards toward development funding.<\/p>\n<p>Qureshi\u2019s view is that the arrangement should end when the current period expires.<\/p>\n<p>That has already kicked off a wider debate inside the Zcash community.<\/p>\n<h2>Who Pays For Protocol Development?<\/h2>\n<p>This is one of crypto\u2019s oldest governance problems.<\/p>\n<p>Decentralized networks need developers.<\/p>\n<p>Developers need paying.<\/p>\n<p>But once a protocol permanently allocates part of its issuance to development organizations, critics can reasonably ask whether that arrangement eventually becomes an entrenched tax on the network.<\/p>\n<p>Zcash has always been unusually explicit about funding development through block rewards.<\/p>\n<p>That helped finance privacy research, <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinist.com\/glossary\/wallet\/\">wallet<\/a> work and protocol maintenance.<\/p>\n<p>The trade-off is that miners and token holders receive less of the newly issued ZEC.<\/p>\n<h2>A Recommendation, Not A Vote<\/h2>\n<p>It is important not to overstate where things stand.<\/p>\n<p>Qureshi has not passed a <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinist.com\/glossary\/dao\/\">governance proposal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He has made a public recommendation.<\/p>\n<p>That recommendation may influence future discussion, but the Zcash funding structure does not change because of one X thread.<\/p>\n<p>The interesting part is that the debate is happening now, well before 2028.<\/p>\n<p>That gives the ecosystem time to think about what replaces the fund if it does disappear.<\/p>\n<p>A community endowment, grants system or other funding structure could eventually take its place.<\/p>\n<p>Or the network may ultimately decide the existing system is still the least-bad option.<\/p>\n<p>Either way, the conversation has started.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Haseeb Qureshi \/ Zcash community discussion. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/haseeb\/status\/2061123456789012345\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">https:\/\/x.com\/haseeb\/status\/2061123456789012345<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This article was written by the News Desk and edited by Samuel Rae.<\/p>\n<p style=\"display:none;\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/haseeb\/status\/2061123456789012345\" rel=\"nofollow\">Primary Source<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TL;DR Dragonfly\u2019s Haseeb Qureshi says Zcash should let its developer fund expire after 2028. The fund currently receives 20% of block rewards. This is a personal recommendation, not a binding governance proposal. https:\/\/x.com\/haseeb\/status\/2061123456789012345 A new argument over Zcash funding has started, and this one goes straight to the heart of how the network pays for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-145112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}