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Zcash

Zcash is encrypted electronic cash and a decentralized cryptocurrency protocol for private peer-to-peer payments. It uses zero-knowledge encryption and is available through digital wallets and exchanges.
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Current stage: Seed25 current maintainers20 active leads9 new active leads2 lead step-downs3 lead movements1 early lead departure

Maintainer signals as of Aug 10, 2026


Maintainer Intelligence

This view starts from the canonical internal-employee model. A maintainer is an internal employee who merged at least one pull request in a non-fork repository; external contributors, bots, and PR authors are not treated as causal. Active leads have merged within the last three months.

25

Current maintainers

20

Active leads

9

New active leads

2

Lead step-downs

3

Lead movements

1

Early lead departures

Signals as of Aug 10, 2026github.com/zcash

Maintainers (47)

Maintainer Movements (11)

@p0mvn moved lead merge authority to Zodl.

Confirmed Aug 8, 2026 · Active

Last source merge May 8, 2026 · First destination merge May 14, 2026

@Chlup moved lead merge authority to Zodl.

Confirmed Jun 5, 2026 · Active

Last source merge May 30, 2023 · First destination merge Jun 5, 2026

@nesence-m moved lead merge authority to Zodl.

Confirmed May 20, 2026 · Active

Last source merge Dec 22, 2025 · First destination merge May 20, 2026

@arya2 moved lead merge authority to Zcash Foundation.

Confirmed Feb 17, 2026 · Observed

Last source merge Sep 2, 2025 · First destination merge Feb 17, 2026

@mdr0id moved lead merge authority to Jito Labs.

Confirmed Jun 20, 2024 · Observed · Early maintainer

Last source merge Dec 6, 2022 · First destination merge Jun 20, 2024

@arya2 moved lead merge authority to Zcash Foundation.

Confirmed May 13, 2024 · Observed

Last source merge Feb 13, 2024 · First destination merge Feb 29, 2024

@gtank moved lead merge authority to Zcash Foundation.

Confirmed May 25, 2020 · Observed · Early maintainer

Last source merge Aug 6, 2019 · First destination merge May 25, 2020

@acityinohio moved lead merge authority to Zcash Foundation.

Confirmed Nov 20, 2019 · Observed

Last source merge Apr 30, 2019 · First destination merge Nov 20, 2019

@ebfull moved lead merge authority to Zodl.

Confirmed Oct 11, 2017 · Observed · Early maintainer

Last source merge Jul 5, 2017 · First destination merge Oct 11, 2017

@daira moved lead merge authority to Least Authority.

Confirmed Jul 19, 2016 · Observed · Early maintainer

Last source merge Apr 19, 2016 · First destination merge Jul 5, 2016