The Zcash Basis lately concluded the ZCAP NU7 Sentiment Polling, which closed on Friday, February 20 at 20:00 UTC. This ballot was designed to gauge group sentiment on 11 proposed protocol options and initiatives, every both accomplished or anticipated to be prepared throughout the subsequent 12 months.
This publish summarizes the outcomes from the ZCAP ballot. This ballot ran in parallel with equivalent polls administered to coinholders, ZecHub, Zcash Brazil, Zcash Espanol, Zcash Turkey and Zcash Engineering Caucus. Particular person ballot outcomes are advisory and non-binding on their very own; they’re evaluated alongside all different ballot outcomes to evaluate whether or not broad consensus exists throughout the ecosystem.
Participation
A complete of 99 ZCAP members forged ballots out of 173 eligible contributors, representing a 57% response fee. Every voter was permitted to abstain from particular person questions whereas nonetheless submitting a legitimate poll.
Outcomes at a Look
| Query # | Proposal | Assist | Oppose |
| 1 | Zcash Shielded Belongings (ZSAs) | 69% | 29% |
| 2 | Community Sustainability Mechanism (NSM) + Issuance Smoothing | 79% | 15% |
| 3 | Burning 60% of Transaction Charges by way of NSM | 71% | 20% |
| 4 | Memo Bundles | 73% | 22% |
| 5 | Specific Charges | 79% | 16% |
| 6 | Disallowing v4 Transactions (Sprout Deprecation) | 73% | 21% |
| 7 | Challenge Tachyon (New Shielded Pool for Scalability) | 83% | 14% |
| 8 | STARK Proof Verification by way of TZEs (Layer-2 Assist) | 50% | 38% |
| 9 | Comparable-Primarily based Dynamic Charge Mechanism | 67% | 23% |
| 10 | Consensus Accounts | 67% | 19% |
| 11 | Orchard Quantum Recoverability | 86% | 9% |
What Comes Subsequent
These ZCAP outcomes will now be in contrast with different group polling outcomes. If there may be clear, broad consensus throughout all teams, that sign will inform selections about which options are prioritized for NU7.
We need to thank each ZCAP member who took the time to overview the proposals, have interaction in dialogue, and forged their poll. Moreover, we recognize those that organized various group polls and are grateful to everybody who took the time to vote.

