Zcash co-founder Sean Bowe calls to halt funding of $125M+ ZCG grants program

Bowe's intervention is notable less for the funding pause itself than for the governance gap it exposes: a co-founder proposing to redirect issuance toward a reserve without saying who controls it. That puts the debate squarely inside Zcash's own community, where ZCG's accumulated balance and its share of new issuance are the levers in question. For RWA and privacy-adjacent observers, the open question is whether this becomes a broader argument about treasury discipline in protocol-funded grant programs, and how the reserve would be governed if the redirect gains traction.