# Zcash Draft Would Send 50,000 ZEC to Future Miner Rewards By Simon Yoon Canonical URL: https://www.tokenpost.com/news/technology/49549 Published: 2026-11-05T20:55:19.000Z Updated: 2026-11-05T20:55:19.000Z Section: Technology > A separate proposal would end Zcash Community Grants (ZCG)’s 8% block-reward share and direct it to a development and legal-defense fund. A joint draft by Sean Bowe, Zooko Wilcox and Jason McGee would require a 50,000 ZEC transfer to a reserve for future miner rewards, 13,800 ZEC above Zcash Community Grants’ withdrawn plan. The proposal would end the 8% share of Zcash (ZEC) block rewards allocated to ZCG and direct that stream to a Future Dev and Legal Defense Fund lockbox. It would also require ZCG to transfer 50,000 ZEC to the Network Sustainability Mechanism (NSM), a protocol reserve for future miner payouts. Bowe is with Tachyon Group; Wilcox and McGee are with Shielded Labs. The proposed NSM transfer is 13,800 ZEC more than the 36,200 ZEC treasury transfer in [ZCG’s withdrawn plan](). That preliminary plan also included about 62,000 ZEC in future funding, for a proposed total of about 98,000 ZEC. ZCG withdrew its plan and left the Development Fund’s future and its treasury to the community’s usual governance process, without offering a replacement plan or timeline. The joint draft remained open on GitHub on Nov. 4. ## Links in this article - [ZCG’s withdrawn plan](https://www.tokenpost.com/news/technology/48789)