ZecHub Research: Privacy Best Practices

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Intro

ZecHub would like to formally take the leading role in privacy best practice research. While centering on Namada, this research could apply to many areas in the cosmos ecosystem and beyond.

Background

ZecHub provides easy to understand education resources, a weekly newsletter, Wallet Demos, and video explainers on Zcash / Namada / Penumbra.

• Since all work is open source, anyone can review the documentation for accuracy, create new content and use the hub’s structure to facilitate new ideas that benefit the community

• This process incentivizes community members to become more active contributors to Zcash and/or adjacent shielded crypto ecosystem communities to come in and eventually contribute to the protocol(s).

• ZecHub currently rewards contributions by distributing either shielded ZEC or UM from a pool of funds that is overseen by the DAO. The DAO also controls a DaoDao based multisig with funds from assorted “Cosmos” IBC chains.

Proposal

ZecHub’s 3 core contributors will research and start an open source “Privacy Best Practices” guide in markdown for users to protect their privacy when using Namada technologies. Part of this work will help Identify key areas where a user’s privacy may be compromised while using Namada, and zero in on easy to understand advice that is both practical and useful.

ZecHub would also like to include shielded NAM in its bounty program to extend its reach in the namada community. In particular, we highly encourage both feedback and other contributions to help build out this guide and in return, approved changes will earn contributors a shielded NAM bounty.

If others want to help build our NAM bounty, ZecHub accepts donations here:

znam103kc08ph8nk30nc90use72zv90zk35s62phqd6r24vlzh3wjj0mnqsf7hdygextlc9fjs0yf6dn

Feedback / Questions

If others are interested in working with us please reach out.

• Respond to this thread / or DM
• Discord
• Github
• Matrix
• Twitter
• Bluesky
• Mastodon
• Email

[Gavin]

exciting! @dismad looking forward to delegating to your validator, lmk when launched

[Gavin]

@dismad some potential direction Phase 4 Proposal Discussion - #3 by Gavin

happy to jam on this with you!

[dismad]

We are live

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Hi all,

We wanted to share an update on what we have been working on. We created a new namada github repo where all our work will be open source and free to update as needed.

GitHub - ZecHub/Namada: Governance and Network Metrics Dashboard

Here are some of our contributors to date, thank you!

[tesladev](https://github.com/teslasdev)        -   namada dashboard work

[onajifortune](https://github.com/onajifortune) -   namada dashboard work

[Chionerky](https://github.com/Chionerky)       -   Namada Best Practice work

Here is are first round draft of Namada best practices, please comment and help us improve!

NamadaBestPratices.md

Take a look at our Namada dashboard updates!

Zechub Namada Dashboard

We include:

• Total supply (over time)
• Shielded supply (over time)
• Transparent supply (over time)
• Rewards info (over time)

All data is sourced from a namada full node and is of course open sourced in our data directory! See some errors or have ideas, please let us know

Lastly I want to invite others who want to earn 'd NAM by either applying for task OR creating a new task which you think can improve the ecosystem ( if approved! )

ZecHub DAO | Dework

Thank you