The Zcash Basis not too long ago concluded the ZCAP NU7 Sentiment Polling, which closed on Friday, February 20 at 20:00 UTC. This ballot was designed to gauge group sentiment on 11 proposed protocol options and initiatives, every both accomplished or anticipated to be prepared throughout the subsequent yr.
This put up summarizes the outcomes from the ZCAP ballot. This ballot ran in parallel with an identical polls administered to coinholders, ZecHub, Zcash Brazil, Zcash Espanol, Zcash Turkey and Zcash Engineering Caucus. Particular person ballot outcomes are advisory and non-binding on their very own; they’re evaluated alongside all different ballot outcomes to evaluate whether or not broad consensus exists throughout the ecosystem.
Participation
A complete of 99 ZCAP members forged ballots out of 173 eligible members, representing a 57% response charge. Every voter was permitted to abstain from particular person questions whereas nonetheless submitting a legitimate poll.
Outcomes at a Look
| Query # | Proposal | Assist | Oppose |
| 1 | Zcash Shielded Property (ZSAs) | 69% | 29% |
| 2 | Community Sustainability Mechanism (NSM) + Issuance Smoothing | 79% | 15% |
| 3 | Burning 60% of Transaction Charges through NSM | 71% | 20% |
| 4 | Memo Bundles | 73% | 22% |
| 5 | Express Charges | 79% | 16% |
| 6 | Disallowing v4 Transactions (Sprout Deprecation) | 73% | 21% |
| 7 | Challenge Tachyon (New Shielded Pool for Scalability) | 83% | 14% |
| 8 | STARK Proof Verification through TZEs (Layer-2 Assist) | 50% | 38% |
| 9 | Comparable-Primarily based Dynamic Payment Mechanism | 67% | 23% |
| 10 | Consensus Accounts | 67% | 19% |
| 11 | Orchard Quantum Recoverability | 86% | 9% |
What Comes Subsequent
These ZCAP outcomes will now be in contrast with different group polling outcomes. If there’s clear, broad consensus throughout all teams, that sign will inform choices about which options are prioritized for NU7.
We wish to thank each ZCAP member who took the time to assessment the proposals, have interaction in dialogue, and forged their poll. Moreover, we respect those that organized different group polls and are grateful to everybody who took the time to vote.