Financial Privacy Foundation
Administrator of the Coinholder-Directed Retroactive Grants Program: it runs the calls for proposals, review summaries, KYC and reporting, and coordinates payouts with the key-holders. Coinholders decide every grant.
Grants
22
coinholder directed
Total paid
$8.6M
USD settled across coinholder grants
Proposals
76
submitted to the program
Coinholder grants
| ZODL Q1 & Q2 2026 Core Protocol Development | Zcash Open Development Lab (ZODL) | Infrastructure | $1,950,000 | Completed |
| Valargroup Ironwood work | Valargroup | Research & Development | $1,203,000 | Completed |
| Orchard Counterfeiting Vulnerability Bug Bounty | Taylor Hornby | Research & Development | $750,000 | Completed |
| Taylor Hornby - Bonus Grant for Orchard Counterfeiting Vulnerability Bug Bounty | Taylor Hornby | Research & Development | $750,000 | Completed |
| Ironwood zk-SNARK Formal Verification (Project Tachyon) | Tachyon Foundation | Research & Development | $738,942 | Completed |
| Ironwood external audit re-imbursement | Valargroup | Infrastructure | $599,000 | Completed |
| Zec.rocks (16 months of uptime for Zcash wallets) | Zec.rocks | Infrastructure | $584,992 | Completed |
| Five Critical Zebra Consensus Divergence Vulnerabilities | sangsoo-osec | Research & Development | $425,000 | Completed |
| Temporary Detectable Unlimited mint and sell Exploit | Alex Sol | Research & Development | $400,000 | Completed |
| CipherScan Coinholder Retroactive Grant 2026 | Kenbak | Infrastructure | $375,000 | Completed |
| Project Tachyon - Bonus Grant for Ironwood zk-SNARK Formal Verification | Tachyon Foundation | Research & Development | $261,058 | Completed |
| Zebra Critical Vulnerability Bug Bounty (CVE-2026-34202) | robustfengbin | Research & Development | $150,000 | Completed |
| Unstoppable Wallet | Horizontal Systems | Wallets | $128,000 | Completed |
| THORSwap/Metro | THORSwap Labs | Non-Wallet Applications | $60,000 | Completed |
| FPF Admin for Coinhold-Directed Retroactive Grants Program | Financial Privacy Foundation | Grants Program Admin | $58,000 | Completed |
| Maya Protocol Advanced Shielded ZEC Support | Maya Protocol | Infrastructure | $45,000 | Completed |
| CipherPay | Atmosphere Labs (Kenbak) | Infrastructure | $35,000 | Completed |
| Connaugh Zcash Videos | Connaugh | Media | $22,000 | Completed |
| BitcoinVN | BitcoinVN | Infrastructure | $10,000 | Completed |
| zcashtocash via ZcashLabs | ZcashLabs | Non-Wallet Applications | $6,000 | Completed |
| ZcashCommunity.com Website Hosting | mineZcash | Community | $5,941 | Completed |
| Bootstrap Org / Electric Coin Company | Bootstrap Org / Electric Coin Company | Infrastructure | $0 | Keyholder veto |