ZCash Maintains 8% Reward Rate; Proposal to Automatically Halt or Reduce Rewards Faces Opp

Zcash (ZEC) community members have proposed maintaining the current 8% of block rewards allocated to development funding, countering earlier proposals to automatically halt or gradually reduce the allocation. The Zcash Adoption Pool (ZAP) draft, published October 31, would keep the existing 8% directed to Zcash Community Grants (ZCG) but repurpose its focus toward growing direct ZEC holdings and on-network transaction activity. Under the current ZIP 1016 framework, 8% of new block rewards goes to ZCG and 12% to a separate fund governed by coinholder voting, both drawn from the same block subsidy. The proposal matters because ZEC's dev-funding stream—unlike those of many protocols—faces an explicit sunset debate, with the outcome shaping long-term funding for core development and adoption efforts. Watch for community feedback on the ZAP draft and whether coinholder voting signals support for continuation, reduction, or termination of the 8% allocation.