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1/10 The ZPrize 2023 competition has wrapped up, and the results have been open-sourced!
This year's competition (again) led to major advancements in zero-knowledge proof (ZK) technologies, thanks to the effort and skill of the participants. Here are some key improvements:
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Congratulations to the winners of the Inaugural ZPrize competition 🥁!
The winning submissions will be open-source for the benefit of all 🤝
Here is a list of all the winners 👇
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🏆ZPrize 2023 has kicked off!
If last year’s competition showed us anything, it’s the incredible impact that the solutions that come out of this competition have on ZK – we can’t wait to see what this year brings.
Learn more in our kick-off blog 👉
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📢Join
@MantaNetwork
@Polkadot
@MinaProtocol
and others for the
@z_prize
AMA tomorrow, 9AM PST/12PM EST to talk about the
#ZPrize
🏆
#ZKP
challenge.
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ZPrize is dedicated to accelerating zero-knowledge cryptography ⚡
Here is what you need to know 👇
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📣 It's not too late to submit your application to compete in the 🏆
#ZPrize
open division and closed division prizes. For more information re: prize specs, visit our prize pages:▶️
#developers
#cryptographers
#zeroknowledge
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🚨 Join us at ETHDenver one week from today if you're:
-Curious to learn about zero-knowledge cryptography
-A ZK enthusiast who wants to build more relationships in the space
-Interested in joining the industry-wide effort to advance privacy in web3
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🚀After months of effort we are proud to announce the official kickoff of the ZPrize competition. Interest from prize sponsors and competitors has made
@z_prize
THE largest collaborative public-goods funding endeavor in the history of
#zeroknowledge
tech:
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@the_matter_labs
@_Supranational
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🏅 Accelerating Elliptic Curve Operations and Finite Field Arithmetic (WASM):
🥇1st prize: Yrrid Software
🥈2nd prize: Gregor Mitscha-Baude (Independent)
🥉3rd prize:
@MantaNetwork
&
@jump_
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Join
@z_prize
and
@apruden08
as we discuss
@DemoxLabs
’s Leo Wallet with
@CoralRelief
!
set your reminder – starting in just a couple of hours.
we’ll see you there 👋🏼
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🏆 Today marks the end of the main ZPrize 2023 competition with incredible results. Our participants' commitment to improving the speed, efficiency, and security of zero-knowledge algorithms is the foundation for new real-world apps.
Full recap:
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📢Join
@EspressoSys
@AleoHQ
in the 🏆
@z_prize
AMA twitter spaces session Thursday 05/26 12pm ET.
#developer
#zeroknowledge
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2/
🏅 Accelerating Proof Generation Operations on GPU/FPGA: Yrrid Software &
@the_matter_labs
🏅 Accelerating MSM Operations on FPGA: HardCamls
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✨It's official!
@z_prize
open-division prize specs are published! These challenges represent a range of problems critical to broad adoption of
#zeroknowledge
. Competitors can help push this industry forward and also earn prizes (over $7M in cash, plus tokens)
🧵
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Meet the ZPrize Architects!
Evan Marshall (
@CoralRelief
) of
@DemoxLabs
“I have high confidence that privacy tech will win out in general... It’s not just a fundamental individual right, it unlocks lots of economically productive activity.
Read more:
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Ever wondered how Zero Knowledge (ZK) proofs work?
Here is a series of Twitter threads explaining everything without the complicated math👇
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🏆 Our featured
#ZPrize
challenge is valued at $1.2m, 200k
@AleoHQ
tokens and 120k
@Polkadot
with a focus on maximizing throughput of MSM & NTT operations. Register here:
#developer
#zeroknowledge
#cryptography
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Set your reminder and join our spaces this morning, we’re introducing Prize 1B with
@apruden08
and ZPrize architect Leo Fan👋🏼
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📢Join
@anomanetwork
@AleoHQ
in the 🏆
@z_prize
AMA twitter spaces session Thursday 12pm ET.
#developer
#zeroknowledge
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ZK Proofs: The art of proving without unveiling.
Imagine you're in a room with the Mona Lisa, but it's covered. You want to convince an art historian it's indeed there, without ever uncovering it.
How would you do that? 🧵
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🥳 gm and Happy New Year!
🥁 Presenting ZPrize founder
@apruden08
’s privacy predictions for 2023
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@the_matter_labs
@_Supranational
@MantaNetwork
@jump_
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🏅 Accelerating the Poseidon Hash Function: Zhenfei Zhang
🏅 Accelerating Proof Generation on Mobile:
@ConsenSys
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🚨 Event Announcement 🚨
ZPrize will be at the Stanford Blockchain Conference where we’ll be gathering the leading minds in ZK for a kickoff of our 2023 competition.
If you’re interested in accelerating ZK tech, you don’t want to miss it. Register here 👉
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“The recent advances in performing fast MSMs made by the winners of the ‘ZPrize MSM on Mobile Prize’ are not only impressive for advancing the performance of practical cryptography primitives in their own right, a topic often overlooked by academic research, but also have great
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Join us this Thursday as we talk about ZK & The ZPrize Vision with a couple of industry experts 🙌
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Theoretical 🤝Practical
Explore how some of the cutting-edge findings from the winning submissions of ZPrize 2022 are impacting ZK applications being built today.
Set a reminder so you don’t miss it 📅
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🎙️ ZPrize 2023 Winners AMA Announcement:
𝘾𝙤𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙨𝙤𝙤𝙣...
Excited to meet the winners? 👀
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- DIZK applied over gigantic circuits (2^30 constraints) for use cases like privacy-preserving machine learning
@EspressoSys
- ZKP primitives in
#WebAssembly
for proving/verifying in the browser
@MantaNetwork
@Polkadot
@MinaProtocol
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📢Join
@CeloOrg
@AleoHQ
in the 🏆
@z_prize
AMA twitter spaces session Thursday 06/02 12pm ET.
#developer
#zeroknowledge
#Engineer
#cryptographer
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Are you up for the
#ZPrize
challenge? Check out our latest
#ZPrize
challenges with prizes of $7 million cash and tokens.
#developer
#zeroknowledge
#cryptography
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We are one hour away from our Twitter Spaces 🕐
Join us to learn how we are advancing Zero-Knowledge Cryptography with ZPrize🔹
Tune in 👇
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“We are proud to co-organize and architect this competition, which brings together the best and brightest from around the world to showcase their skills and drive for excellence.
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This week, be sure to tune into our Twitter Spaces AMA with on Thursday, September 6 at 10a PST with
@saifonblock
and
@anishmohammed
from
@ZKPanther
. This will be a great chance to discuss
@z_prize
competition and the latest cutting-edge cryptography
@ZKPanther
is working on!
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🤔 Keep hearing about Zero Knowledge Cryptography, but want to know more…?
🧠 Now's your chance - Introducing the ZPrize Knowledge Center:
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🥁 Introducing inaugural Steering Committee Member
@AnnaRRose
!
Anna is a co-founder of
@ZKValidator
, co-creator of
@__zkhack__
, and the host of
@zeroknowledgefm
.
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@the_matter_labs
@_Supranational
@MantaNetwork
@jump_
@ConsenSys
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Congratulations to all winners🎉
🎙️ Learn more about the competition on our upcoming Twitter Space:
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GM ☀️ We are excited to share that we will soon be hosting an AMA Announcement highlighting the results of ZPrize 2023! 🏆
Please stay tuned for more information and be sure to visit the link below for a recap of details regarding the competition 👇
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In a
@Foresight_News
interview, ZPrize founder
@apruden08
detailed our strategy to advance ZKPs.
By collaborating with industry leaders, we’re enhancing ZKP efficiency and scalability, driving adoption through community contributions and research.
Read more 👇
🧿FN 深度🧿
【专访 Aleo 基金会执行董事：ZK 证明耗时已大幅下降，「实时证明」进一步逼近】
我们与
@AleoHQ
基金会执行董事 Alex Pruden 聊了聊 ZPrize 比赛的成果，ZK 领域的几大发展趋势，以及 Aleo 主网上线日期等话题。
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2/ 🌐 Zero-knowledge cryptography will revolutionize the way we interact with the internet. How will this look?
✅ Cookie-free, private browsing online
✅ Fast and secure mobile payments
✅ Control 100% of your personal data online
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📣 Introducing: 'ZPrize ZK Debate | Episode 2: GPU or FPGA - The Hardware Battle in ZK Development'
Let's delve into the benefits and drawbacks of using GPUs (computer processors), or FPGAs (custom-built chips for software) for
#ZK
tech!
🗓️ Wed, Feb. 7
⏰ 10 AM ET
🧵 Details:
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📈 Zero-knowledge scales Web3 by compressing multiple transactions/transitions into a single proof, saving block space on Layer-1, and enabling trustless light-clients and lightweight mobile wallets.
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“Support for cutting-edge applied research in cryptography is fundamental to scaling the success of Web 3.0 in the world.
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🚀 The field of
#zeroknowledge
cryptography is advancing at the pace of Moore's Law, w/ new techniques that are more performant, more efficient, and more secure. New research & PoC's beget more research & PoCs, and enable increasingly more and more interesting use cases
Cool PoC by Nicolas - non-interactive DKGs are an extremely useful tool and this is one way to create them using SNARKs
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@the_matter_labs
@_Supranational
@MantaNetwork
@jump_
@ConsenSys
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🏅 Fast Verifier for Marlin Proof System: 先河ARS
🏅 Proof-of-Succinct Work Acceleration (GPU):
@_Supranational
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Our next
#ZPrize
AMA session will be on June 9th 12pm ET. Join
@DzkLabs
in the 🏆
@z_prize
twitter space session. .
#developer
#zeroknowledge
#cryptography
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📈 One of the core motivations of ZPrize is to help kickstart a scalability flywheel for zero-knowledge cryptography…
🔓 …and to ensure that the innovations discovered to do so are “locked-open” under fully open-source licenses.
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The ZPrize 2023 competition kicks off on September 15th!
Here are the Prize Categories this year:
🏆Prize 1: “Beat the Best” (FPGA/GPU)
🏆Prize 2: “Beat the Best” (WASM)
🏆Prize 3: High Throughput Signature Verification
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We’re excited to host our first community call where we’ll introduce you to Zprize 2023, the steering committee, and our tentative prize categories.
Set a reminder so you can join to have your voices heard and help shape Zprize 2023!
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🎧 Episode 1: 'Would Satsohi & ZK'
👤 Moderator:
@cryptodavidw
👥 Team 1 (For):
@PonosTechnology
👥 Team 2 (Against):
@SuperScalar_io
🔗 Listen:
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3/ But there is some time before ZK is ready for global adoption ⌛
ZPrize is shortening the wait by rallying the industry to design and fund 12 prizes to move ZK technology forward - awarding $4 million+ to the inaugural cohort of competitors 💰
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📣 Join us on our first Ask me anything AMA session presenting the
#ZPrize
sponsors on Thursdays. This chat will be available on 🐦 twitter spaces. 🎙️ Stay tuned for more information and list of speakers!
#cryptography
#zeroknowledge
#developer
.
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It is through events like this that we can foster a culture of innovation and achievement, and we are thrilled to be a part of it.” -
@ZKCryptoHW
with ZPrize sponsor
@AMD
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4/ ZKP Benefits and Use Cases:
1/ Invented nearly 40 years ago, Zero Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs) have finally reached the point where advancements in software and hardware have enabled them to be applied across Web3.
ZKPs aim to resolve blockchain issues involving privacy, interoperability and scaling.🧵
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🗓️ 𝗧𝗢𝗠𝗢𝗥𝗥𝗢𝗪:
Gear up for Episode 2 of the ZPrize ZK Debate series highlighting The Hardware Battle in
#ZK
Development. Featuring:
🎙️ Mod:
@leofanxiong
👤
@weikengchen
👤
@lets_puzzle
👤
@arcane_finance
👤
@ShadowFi_xyz
🎧 Host:
@z_prize
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“We’re incredibly thankful for the ZPrize organizers and partners, and greatly appreciate their support in the development of high-performance open source cryptography.” -
@_Supranational
.
🏆 Winners: Accelerating MSM Operations on an FPGA prize
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Ask me anything
#ZPrize
🐦 twitter spaces session with
@MantaNetwork
@Polkadot
and
@MinaProtocol
starting now! 📢🔥🏆
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🤝 Join our community of builders in the ZK/privacy space:
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🔒 Zero-knowledge cryptography secures Web3 by providing proof of a given transaction or computation, rather than publishing the transaction itself.
Thus, it conceals private information and enables interesting new use cases like on-chain identities and private smart contracts.
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5/ Drop any questions below & follow to stay updated on everything Zero Knowledge 🤝
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🤝 Thank you
@ocelot_labs
for sponsoring the Accelerating MSM (Proof Generation) on Mobile Prize
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Thank you
@Venturebeat
for publishing this article about
#ZPrize
and how we are partnering with
#web3
firms to accelerate
#zeroknowledge
#cryptography
#ZPrize
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So the Ocelot squad is proud and humbled to get to advocate for the stellar open source work around this industry-wide effort for zero knowledge crypto with ZPrize.” -
@gabriellemic
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Hello ZK enthusiasts!
We have an exciting announcement from ZPrize 2024.
We’ve just announced an expansion to Prize 1, which comes with an additional prize for competitors 🎉
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📢Announcing
@CoreWeave
as a 🏆
#ZPrize
technology partner! Check out our blog post from the CoreWeave team!
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This developer and founder oriented event will include coding workshops on the latest in zero knowledge technology coupled with insightful talks led by some of the industry's top thinkers, movers and shakers building and researching ZK.
It’s time to get smart about zero knowledge.
You’re invited to apply to attend zkWeek at
@jump_pit
in Chicago, May 15 - May 20.
At this event, you’ll be exposed to years of research, emerging zk dApps, cutting-edge cryptography, and more.
If you’re serious about zk, you won’t
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🤝 We're chatting with ZPrize architect
@weikengchen
1 week from today about his involvement in the competition.
👀 He'll also be sharing some alpha...
🔔 Set that reminder!
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🏆🥇Thanks
@The_GWW
for your article on
#ZPrize
&
@MantaNetwork
sponsorship! 🥁
#zeroknowledge
#developer
#cryptography
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Congratulations to the entire Ethereum community on a monumental moment!
#EthereumMerge
And we finalized!
Happy merge all. This is a big moment for the Ethereum ecosystem. Everyone who helped make the merge happen should feel very proud today.
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🎉 You're invited!
On March 1, ZPrize is privatizing the future with a half-day summit dedicated to bringing together the competition’s winners, architects, sponsors and participants for a lively celebration of achievements.
RSVP now!
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"We want end users to use zk in their daily lives.
Most users don't have special hardware. They only have their laptops. So I think it’s very important to have a great WASM implementation to meet the end user’s needs."
-
@Boyuan_Feng
from
@MantaNetwork
.
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🔔 Reminder for next week:
Check out this thread to learn more about our upcoming Spaces celebrating the ZPrize 2023 Winners 🎉
Tune in on Monday, April 22, at 10 AM ET 👇
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🤔 Have zero knowledge about zero knowledge cryptography?
🧠 We’ve put together the ZPrize Knowledge Center to get you started.
Check it out here👉
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The ZPrize competition was organized around three main objective functions, corresponding to different use cases for zero-knowledge 👇.
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GM ☀️
We have 𝙋𝙇𝙀𝙉𝙏𝙔 of exciting ZPrize news on the way in light of ZPrize 2023 wrapping up.
Is everyone ready? 🫡
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🏗️ Check out The Rollup for new opportunities on teams building the future of privacy
@AleoHQ
@axiom_xyz
@o1_labs
. Build on:
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In Episode 1 of the ZPrize ZK Debate Series,
@PonosTechnology
argued in favor of the position that Satoshi Nakamoto would have included
#ZK
tech in
#BTC
's source code 🌐
Some key points they argued 👇
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