Zcash India College Clubs
Learn financial privacy. Build with zero-knowledge tech. Put your college on the map.
What a ZICC is
A Zcash India College Club is a small, student-run group on one campus. It runs the events on the roadmap below, at its own pace, with material and support from the Zcash India team. No money changes hands to start one. You need people, not permission.
Clubs are how we go from one-off campus editions with 200 people in a hall to something that keeps going after we leave: a lead who knows the material, ten members who can run a workshop, and a college that shows up on the map.
One lead, ten members
That's the whole structure. The lead is the point of contact; members run events together.
What students get
Learning material that works in a classroom
Slides, wallet walkthroughs and the Learn pages, ready to reuse for talks and workshops.
A network across campuses
Club leads meet each other, the Zcash India team, and builders from the wider ecosystem.
Mentorship from people who ship
Help with running events, writing content and building on Zcash from the core team.
First access to bounties
Clubs hear about new bounties first and get help turning submissions into wins.
A path to Contributor status
Consistent, real impact through a club is the fastest route to recognised Contributor status.
The 12-event roadmap
In order, from a first talk anyone can give to a demo day the whole ecosystem watches. Clubs move through it at their own pace. Most take a year.
- 1.Awareness talk
Why Financial Privacy Matters: Introduction to Zcash
A 40-minute talk for the whole college. Who can see your payments, and why that matters.
- 2.Hands-on workshop
Zodl Wallet Workshop: Your First Shielded Transaction
Everyone installs a wallet, backs up a seed and sends a shielded transaction on testnet.
- 3.Casual IRL meetup
Chai & Privacy: Open Discussion on Surveillance and Digital Rights
Small group, no slides. A real conversation about surveillance, data and dignity.
- 4.Field activity
ZecMap Mission: Onboard a Local Merchant
Walk out of campus and help one shop near you start accepting ZEC. List it on ZecMap.
- 5.Technical workshop
zk-SNARKs Deep Dive: How Zcash Actually Works
For the curious: what a zero-knowledge proof is, and how Zcash uses one to hide a payment.
- 6.Online + IRL hybrid
Zcash India Live Watch Party
Gather the club, join the monthly Live session together, and win ZEC in the live quiz.
- 7.Content bounty
Regional Language Content Sprint
A weekend to explain Zcash in your own language: Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, Tamil, anything.
- 8.Dev-focused workshop
Developer Workshop: Zcash Infrastructure and Light Clients
Nodes, lightwalletd, SDKs. Run a light client and understand what your wallet talks to.
- 9.24-hour hackathon, IRL
Privacy Hackathon: Build on Zcash
One day, real teams, working demos. Judged by the Zcash India team and ecosystem builders.
- 10.IRL community event
ZICC City Meetup
Clubs from the same city meet up. Share what worked, plan what's next.
- 11.2 days: talks, showcase, internship drive, IRL
ZecBharat Regional Summit
The regional flagship. Talks, project showcase, and companies hiring from the clubs.
- 12.Product showcase + pitch contest
ZICC Demo Day
The year's best projects pitched to the ecosystem. Prizes, feedback, and next steps.
How to start a club
Find your first ten
One lead and ten members. Classmates, a coding club, a hostel floor. That's a club.
Tell us on Telegram
Message the Zcash India team with your college, city and the lead's contact. We reply within a few days.
Run event #1
We send the slides and a run of show. You host the intro talk and post the photos.
Keep going
Work through the roadmap at your own pace. Every event puts your college further on the map.
Put your college on the map
Message the team on Telegram with your college, city and the club lead's contact. We'll send the starter kit for event #1.