Roadmap
Shipped beats planned. This page is the plan.
ZNS is a 90-day Zcash Foundation community-grant program (May to July 2026). Deliverables are fixed at grant approval; progress is tracked here and reported monthly on the grant forum thread.
Live progress with pace tracking: /grant dashboard. This page is the detailed table; the dashboard is the at-a-glance read.
Grant deliverables
Section titled “Grant deliverables”From Zcash Community Grant #266. Live pace tracking on the /grant dashboard; counts below mirror it (as of 2026-06-15).
| # | Deliverable | Target / Scope | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zcash Office (physical workspace on campus) | Operational for the full program duration | 🟢 operational (team-led) |
| 2 | Educational events | 6 total (2/month), Privacy is Normal + ZK 101 | 🟢 3 / 6 |
| 3 | Weekly office hours | 12 total (4/month), 5-25 attendees each | 🟢 6 / 12 |
| 4 | User incentives (ZEC airdrops) | ~$5/participant, KPI 100 wallet activations | 🔴 36 / 100 — behind pace. Captured via /airdrops. |
| 5 | Onboarding materials | Printed guides, QR cards, t-shirts, banners, signage | 🟢 ”60s start” guide at /start; banner QR at /ns-qr.png |
| 6 | User interviews (PII-excluded transcripts) | 10+ interviews, residents and businesses | 🟡 4 / 10 — 6 more to go |
| 7 | Community announcements | Forum, ZecHub, coinholder votes, contributions | 🟢 ongoing (team-led) |
| 8 | Monthly forum reports | 3 total, summarising events, metrics, spending | 🟢 1 / 3 — Month 1: post #15 · local copy. M2 due ~Jun 30. |
| - | Merchant POS installs (KPI) | 4 new POS systems (LIVE only, not LOI/demo) | 🟢 3 / 4. 7 LOIs signed. Funnel at /merchants. |
| - | Shielded newsletter | Mechanism TBD; email collection is live | Email opt-in shipping via /airdrops. Delivery method open. |
Site roadmap
Section titled “Site roadmap”Now (shipped)
Section titled “Now (shipped)”- Core curriculum (Modules 1 to 5) live.
- ZNS funnel pages: /ns, /start, /airdrops (the canonical claim CTA), /claim (alias), /merchants, /team.
- Brand system (yellow/black + red/white), editorial layout with zebra background, top navbar.
- /airdrops submissions write directly into the Airdrops Team Google Sheet via Apps Script. No Resend, no separate inbox, no third-party CRM.
- Self-pruning schedule on /ns reading from
src/data/schedule.json. - Banner-printable QR at
public/ns-qr.png(regen withpnpm qr). - Blog with two seed posts: Why Zcash and Why Network School.
- Real event dates and venues in
src/data/schedule.json. - Real team photos in
public/team/*.jpg(page scaffold already there). - Decide the shielded-newsletter delivery mechanism (mailing list backed by Buttondown / Listmonk / self-hosted; or shielded-memo-based, ZNS-native, TBD).
- Vercel Web Analytics for the [/ns → /start → /airdrops] funnel (cookieless, no consent banner).
- Lighthouse / a11y pass on the editorial card at mobile widths.
- Per-lesson “test yourself” checks.
- Printable one-pagers for events, banner-matched.
- Localised content for the cohort’s primary languages.
- Push-to-deploy via Vercel GitHub App (one-time install in the Vercel dashboard).
How to update this page
Section titled “How to update this page”Two files do the work:
src/data/schedule.json— every event and office-hours session.src/content/docs/roadmap/index.mdx(this file) — deliverable counts and status. Update after each event.