Zcash price holds $1,400 as holders approve $8.4M grants
Zcash holders approved two $750,000 payments for Taylor Hornby for finding the Orchard vulnerability, plus an additional community-nominated reward. In the same broader vote, holders approved $8.39 million in retroactive grants, including the $1.5 million Orchard package, while ZEC traded near $1,400.
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What it means
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Zcash holders and the people watching the protocol’s funding decisions are the ones who notice this first. The approval of the Orchard-related payment package and the larger retroactive grants vote makes those amounts part of the network’s current governance record, and ZEC was trading near $1,400 at the time of that broader approval.
Market reaction
The move was larger before the first headline than after. That is an observation, not an explanation: the market also moves on things nobody publishes.
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Has this happened before?
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