Daniel Gorgonha

Blockchain Engineer. Building @konclavevault, a group vault on Zcash where the key is never whole. Ambassador @cronosapp @cryptocom

[openzcash @openzcash]

NOTE: The following 55 proposals will be reviewed: 54 retroactive grant applications, plus FPF’s request to renew its role administering the program in 2027

[openzcash @openzcash]

First, thank you for the donors, for your mission & generosity 💛

Today we opened our treasury, and something happened that we had not seen before.

Anyone with a phone can now follow a public fund on Zcash as it moves. Add our Full Viewing Key to @zodl_app as a view-only account and the OpenZcash Treasury sits next to your own wallet: every donation that arrives, every expense that leaves, memo included. The key reads everything and spends nothing.

Within hours, someone sent 5 ZEC with a 😎. Then the Financial Privacy Foundation (FPF) sent 3.174 ZEC, with our open letter linked in the memo. The other two transactions were our own earlier tests.

Zcash keeps people private by default. Today it also made a treasury transparent by choice.

Thank you to donors, and to @zodl_co for putting this in everyone's pocket.

[Zcash Brasil @zcashbrazil]

O PS5 vai para @keelvinTv.

O hash do bloco 3.569.610 da Zcash escolheu a entrada #63 de 69, e qualquer pessoa pode conferir no GitHub:
https://t.co/sH1Lz99CjA

Parabéns, e obrigado a todo mundo que participou.

[Michae2xl ᙇ @michael2xl]

It should be celebrated, this is one of those cases where Zcash can change things in the world!

Huge potential in “kept a treasury transparent by choice.” Just imagine a new case near you.

[Zcash Community Grants🛡 @ZcashCommGrants]

This weeks meeting minutes on Zcash forum 📖
https://t.co/nrqyGzBri4

Grants approved on November 9th:

✅ Interoperable FROST co-signing for shielded ZEC: open specs and a reference implementation

Partial approval:
☑️ Block Explorer + Testnet Infrastructure 2026–27

[Zcash Brasil @zcashbrazil]

Atualização para os holders brasileiros, até 11/11.

A ZCG (Zcash Community Grants) é o comitê que recebe 8% de cada bloco para financiar projetos. A comunidade discute o futuro dessa fatia.

Três propostas principais seguem em aberto; duas foram retiradas. Nada está decidido.

[Daniel Gorgonha @danielgorgonha1]

Congrats, @michael2xl! For many of us building on Zcash in Brazil, you've been the reference since the beginning. @ShieldedLabs got someone special. Let's keep building together.

[Michae2xl ᙇ @michael2xl]

Thank you Jason, for the opportunity, for the trust and for the kind words. Thank you Zooko, Mark, Nate and everyone at @ShieldedLabs for the warm welcome.

To the Zcash community, to my team at @zcashbrazil who built all of this with me, and to everyone who has been part of this journey: none of this happens alone.

AI is changing how everything gets built, distributed and adopted. I believe the next narrative will ask for union. Independent teams, different cultures, different paths, but together, because ZEC is unique.

Shielded Labs live the mission every day, and it's a great honor to be part of this team.

Let's stay united. The work continues.

[NEAR Protocol @NEARProtocol]

No team? No ideas? Feel like there isn’t enough time?

NEAR Builders just dropped a NEAR Hackathon in 3 days guide to fix that: take an idea from @ilblackdragon, use the starting prompts from @NEARDevHub, join the @NearBuilders and find teammates.

[Zcash Brasil @zcashbrazil]

A IA é o Apocalipse? https://t.co/OmC1s1PtqF

[Daniel Gorgonha @danielgorgonha1]

@aquietinvestor @michael2xl Congratulations @michael2xl!

[Jason McGee 🛡 @aquietinvestor]

We have another addition to the Shielded Labs team! Michael Guima (@michael2xl) is joining as our Community Lead. He’ll help us build stronger connections with the Zcash community and keep people informed about our work. He’ll also develop educational resources and documentation that explain the technology behind our projects and make Zcash governance easier to understand and follow.

Michael leads @zcashbrazil, where he has built a team whose contributions span education, software development, design, and community building. They publish news and tutorials in Portuguese, organize events such as Zcon Vozes, and represent Zcash at Brazil’s major crypto events. They created the Zcash Global Discord, a central gathering place for the Zcash community. They also helped launch ZecHub DAO and advise new communities as they get started. Under his leadership, the team has developed and continues to maintain more than ten open-source products. These include the first Zcash faucet on mainnet, ZebraPi—the first plug-and-play Zebra node—and LiveZEC, which lets livestreamers receive ZEC donations. Much of their work serves the wider Zcash community, well beyond Brazil.

Michael also developed @openzcash, a community resource that brings together information about Zcash and presents it in a clear and useful format. It lets people explore how grants are funded and paid, follow governance proposals, and review voting results, with links to the underlying sources. I’ve been especially impressed by the depth of the data and the thought he’s put into presenting it. It’s a strong example of his ability to turn complex information into something the community can easily explore and use.

I’ve long admired Michael’s contributions to Zcash and often interacted with him during my time on Zcash Community Grants. The energy he brings to his work and how much his team accomplished always stood out to me. Under his leadership, Zcash Brazil has become a model for other regional Zcash communities.

Michael will continue to lead Zcash Brazil in a more limited capacity as he takes on his role at Shielded Labs. I’m looking forward to working closely with him and seeing what we can build together.

Please join me in welcoming Michael to Shielded Labs!

[Konclave @konclavevault]

Konclave v0.19.0 is available as a pre-release.

Treasury analyses now show available, reserved and confirming funds. Spending pace and runway estimates, plus payroll, security and visibility improvements.

Release notes ↓
https://t.co/RzeaCyCLof

[Josh Swihart 🛡 @jswihart]

Picked up today's WSJ in my hotel lobby to enjoy with my morning coffee. Much to my surprise... Zcash on the front page wasn't on my bingo card!

[Daniel Gorgonha @danielgorgonha1]

Asked at Protocol Study #10 whether the upcoming bound note ZIP could let a t-of-n FROST group bind the proposal it approved to the payment itself. @shieldedmark's answer: worth exploring. We'll test whether it's feasible in @konclavevault and write up what we find. Thanks @zcashbrazil for recording.

[Zcash Brasil @zcashbrazil]

Zcash Office | Hour Protocol Study #10 | What Zcash Changed From Bitcoin by @shieldedmark

https://t.co/pTeK7ykVhv

[Jason McGee 🛡 @aquietinvestor]

Thank you to @Grayscale for its $100,000 donation to Shielded Labs. This contribution will support our engineering work to protect the long-term security of Zcash. We appreciate Grayscale’s confidence in our team and its generous support.

Long-term security is the common thread across our work, including the Network Sustainability Mechanism (NSM), Crosslink, Epoch, and other security and vulnerability research. We want Zcash to remain secure for decades to come, and that requires anticipating how the assumptions it relies on could be challenged in the years ahead. Grayscale’s support helps us remain independent and focused on that long-term work.

[Zcash Brasil @zcashbrazil]

Zcash Office | Hour Protocol Study #10 | What Zcash Changed From Bitcoin by @shieldedmark

https://t.co/pTeK7ykVhv

[Zcash Brasil @zcashbrazil]

Zona Z 🧠 - Edição #62 com @AAmandita_

Sair da Tutela - A descentralização como travessia

🔗 https://t.co/MoZCLrdvkF

[Zero-knowledge Audiovisual Club @ZkAv_Club]

Can a vote gather a signal without binding a decision? Violet (@rollergirlVi) and Daira-Emma discuss the mechanics of @Zcash governance, coinholder polling/voting, and why a healthy system needs many ways to be heard.

What do we miss when we look from only one place?

[Zcash Brasil @zcashbrazil]

NU7 ativa na mainnet desde o bloco 3.543.405. O Zebra 7.0.0 é o node que sustenta a nova cadência da Zcash.

ᙇ Blocos de 25 s (ZIP 218)
ᙇ Sync mais estável perto do tip
ᙇ 7 advisories corrigidos, 5 de severidade alta

Node sem o 7.0.0 ficou fora da chain de consenso.

[ClaudeDevs @ClaudeDevs]

Fable 5.2 is now available in the Claude Platform and Claude Code.

It’s up to 30% faster than Fable 5.1, and costs $8/$40 per 1M tokens, down from $10/$50.