A Zcash-focused advocacy group has formally registered to lobby in Washington, stepping up the privacy-oriented cryptocurrency ecosystem's efforts to shape United States policy on digital assets. The registration puts the group on the public record with federal lawmakers as digital asset legislation moves through Congress.

Pretty Good Policy for Zcash (PGPZ) filed a lobbying registration effective Oct. 1, naming executive director Divij Pandya as its sole lobbyist. The filing lists the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act — US legislation intended to establish a regulatory framework for digital asset markets — and two digital asset tax proposals among its current and anticipated lobbying issues. The Clarity Act and the tax measures are the specific legislative vehicles through which PGPZ plans to engage as they move through the legislative process.

PGPZ launched in June 2026, growing out of Pretty Good Policy for Crypto, an initiative founded in 2022 by Electric Coin Co., the company that leads development of the Zcash protocol. The earlier initiative hosted Washington policy roundtables and organized a congressional briefing on encryption technologies in 2023, giving the new group an existing footprint in the policy conversation to build on.

Zcash is a privacy-focused cryptocurrency that launched in 2016 and uses zero-knowledge proofs, a cryptographic technique that allows users to conduct transactions with shielded details. That shielded-transaction model is exactly what the group says is at stake in Washington's digital asset deliberations.

PGPZ founder Paul Brigner, who serves as chief policy and regulatory officer at ZODL, said the group's goal is to "make sure Zcash has serious, organized, and credible policy engagement in Washington."

"Policymakers are making decisions that will affect whether privacy-preserving digital cash can exist, be used lawfully, and serve the public interest. PGPZ is about ensuring Zcash is understood, represented, and defended in those conversations," he said.

In August, the Zcash Community Grants program approved a $750,000 grant to fund PGPZ's first year of work, providing dedicated funding for a sustained advocacy presence in Washington.

The Clarity Act and the two tax proposals, listed as current and anticipated issues in the filing, are the markers to watch as PGPZ's Washington engagement develops.

Source: Cointelegraph