Zcash co-founder Sean Bowe proposes ending automatic grants funding

The proposal reframes a governance question as a balance-sheet one: with the treasury valued above $125 million, the argument for automatic protocol-level funding weakens, and discretionary control becomes the alternative. This matters most for grants-dependent developers and community projects, whose funding continuity would hinge on governance decisions rather than a built-in mechanism. Whether the Zcash community treats a healthy treasury as reason to stop automatic allocations or as reason to keep them is the open question worth watching.