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ZNS Month 1 report

Posted: 2026-05-16 · Author: Adam (ZNS)

Shipped beats planned, and reported beats shipped.

This is the first of three monthly reports the Zcash Network School grant commits us to. It also lives, in canonical form, on the Zcash community forum thread where the grant is being tracked publicly:

TL;DR

Section titled “TL;DR”

A few sentences. What is the headline of Month 1? Where are we against the 100-wallet-activation and 4-POS-install KPIs?

What we ran

Section titled “What we ran”

Events (target: 2 this month, 6 total over the grant)

Section titled “Events (target: 2 this month, 6 total over the grant)”
  • Date — Title — venue, attendance count, link to recording if any.
  • Date — Title — venue, attendance count.

Office hours (target: 4 this month, 12 total)

Section titled “Office hours (target: 4 this month, 12 total)”
  • Date — focus / topic — drop-in count.
  • Date — focus / topic — drop-in count.
  • Date — focus / topic — drop-in count.
  • Date — focus / topic — drop-in count.

Outcomes

Section titled “Outcomes”

Wallet activations (KPI: 100)

Section titled “Wallet activations (KPI: 100)”
  • N new activations this month. Cumulative: N / 100. Submission flow: /airdrops.

Merchant POS installs (KPI: 4)

Section titled “Merchant POS installs (KPI: 4)”
  • Vendor 1 (café / food / service) — status, install date, POS choice (ZGo / CipherPay / BTCPay).
  • (more)

User incentives (~$5/participant)

Section titled “User incentives (~$5/participant)”
  • N airdrops sent, total $ paid out, average per recipient.

Spending

Section titled “Spending”
  • Itemised, against the grant budget.

What worked

Section titled “What worked”
  • 1–3 bullets, blunt.

What didn’t (and what we are changing)

Section titled “What didn’t (and what we are changing)”
  • 1–3 bullets. Same energy as above.

Where we go next

Section titled “Where we go next”

Open questions for the community / Foundation

Section titled “Open questions for the community / Foundation”
  • Anything we want the forum to weigh in on before the Month 2 report.

Read the canonical version on the forum: forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/zcash-network-school/55269/15

The grant thread root is here.