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Zcash native Pop-Up City

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Applicant: XFounders Accelerator
Requested: $500,000
Status: Declined
Review context: Forum discussion linked1 committee record linked

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📋 Grant Application👀 Ready For ZCG Review❌ Grant Declined

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Declined12/8/2025

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📋 Grant Application

Category: Intake
Status: Grant Application
Milestone: -
Observed: 12/8/2025

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Status: Declined
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Observed: 12/8/2025

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Declined12/8/2025

ZEC-native Pop-Up City

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In 2026, XFounders Accelerator, Zcash and the Starknet Foundation will run four month-long IRL bootcamps and Pop-Up City residencies in Bali and El Salvador, supporting 40 seed-stage startups that integrate Zcash into their products while hosting up to 300 builders per edition. Each Pop-Up City pilots “ZEC as cash of the city,” enabling shielded ZEC payments for daily needs and generating a replicable adoption playbook. The program reserves 80 full packages for Zcash community members, strengthens global networks through workshops and meetups, and produces a year-long docu-series plus educational content on financial privacy and Zcash tools. Together, this creates a pipeline of Zcash-integrated startups, a tested real-world usage model, and lasting public-good media for the ecosystem. Applicant is requesting $500,000. Jason: Pop-up cities are cool and interesting, but it’s not something that we’re looking to fund at this point in time. Zerodartz: If it was one event it would be more reasonable but because it’s like four events and the budget is huge there’s no way we can fund it now. Starting smaller and building stronger connections with the Zcash community first could work in the future. Jason: It might be cool if someone put in a grant to organize an independent Zcash-focused conference. Artkor: I believe an initiative like bootcamps could make sense, however, given that our community is modest in size and already maintains effective low cost forms of in-person interaction, I’m not comfortable approving such a large expense without a clear and explicit community mandate.

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Match method: Primary Forum Topic Id
Minutes: Zcash Community Grants Meeting Minutes 12/8/2025

Committee notes

Jason: Pop-up cities are cool and interesting, but it’s not something that we’re looking to fund at this point in time.

Zerodartz: If it was one event it would be more reasonable but because it’s like four events and the budget is huge there’s no way we can fund it now. Starting smaller and building stronger connections with the Zcash community first could work in the future.

Jason: It might be cool if someone put in a grant to organize an independent Zcash-focused conference.

Artkor: I believe an initiative like bootcamps could make sense, however, given that our community is modest in size and already maintains effective low cost forms of in-person interaction, I’m not comfortable approving such a large expense without a clear and explicit community mandate.

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ZEC‑native Pop‑Up City

Hey everyone, I’m Fazil, co‑founder of XFounders Accelerator . For the last three years we’ve been running four‑week offline bootcamps around the world to help founders build resilient, revenue‑driven companies. On top of each bootcamp we run a Pop‑Up City residency as our community engine — and ...

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Forum URL: https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/zec-native-pop-up-city/53415

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Zcash native Pop-Up City

### Terms and Conditions - [x] I agree to the [Grant Agreement](https://9ba4718c-5c73-47c3-a024-4fc4e5278803.usrfiles.com/ugd/9ba471_f81ef4e4b5f040038350270590eb2e42.pdf) terms if funded - [x] I agree to [Provide KYC information](https:/...

Confidence: 100%
Source ID: ZcashCommunityGrants/zcashcommunitygrants#140

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Comment on #140: Zcash native Pop-Up City

[Forum post for reference. ](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/zec-native-pop-up-city/53415)

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Source ID: ZcashCommunityGrants/zcashcommunitygrants#140:comment:3571131267

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Comment on #140: Zcash native Pop-Up City

Just an example of a content that we are making on top of all: https://youtu.be/rr-JqB2kM1E?si=Be0U3fci5JOKDFVM

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Source ID: ZcashCommunityGrants/zcashcommunitygrants#140:comment:3573394300

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Comment on #140: Zcash native Pop-Up City

https://x.com/AbdelStark/status/1993237617828119036

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Source ID: ZcashCommunityGrants/zcashcommunitygrants#140:comment:3575273523

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Comment on #140: Zcash native Pop-Up City

https://x.com/EliBenSasson/status/1993297995216093263?s=20

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Source ID: ZcashCommunityGrants/zcashcommunitygrants#140:comment:3578385882

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Comment on #140: Zcash native Pop-Up City

A small update on our side regarding the locations. The Starknet team asked for this adjustment due to team trevel capacity. Here is the new schedule — only the locations have changed: - March Bootcamp s5 28/02 - 28/03 (San Salvador) - J...

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Source ID: ZcashCommunityGrants/zcashcommunitygrants#140:comment:3626387782

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Zcash native Pop-Up City

Date Submitted: 11/24/2025 | Proposal Title: Zcash native Pop-Up City | Applicant(s): XFounders Accelerator | Grant Platform Link: https://github.com/ZcashCommunityGrants/zcashcommunitygrants/issues/140 | Forum Link: https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/zec-native-pop-up-city/53415 | Grant Status: Rej

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