Zcash advocacy group registers its first lobbyist in Washington
A Zcash advocacy group has registered its first lobbyist in Washington, marking a formal federal-policy push around the project. The filing names executive director Divij Pandya and lists digital asset legislation and tax proposals among the issues it plans to work on.
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Zcash users, developers, and people following privacy-focused digital assets are the group most likely to notice this first. The registration puts the project’s policy effort into a formal Washington process, and the filing names Divij Pandya as the executive director connected to it. This makes the lobbying effort visible in a way that was not public in the same form before.
In practice, the registration means Zcash now has a named lobbyist attached to federal policy work rather than only outside discussion of policy. The issues listed include the CLARITY Act and digital asset tax proposals, so the public record now points to specific bills rather than a general interest in crypto policy. What remains the same is that the filing itself does not show any outcome on those bills.
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