The Rollup #13

The Rollup

September 15th, 2023

Gm fellow ZK enthusiast,

We have some exciting news – the ZPrize 2023 competition has officially kicked off!

We received close to 100 registrations from around the world and to say we’re excited to see what solutions come out of this year’s competition would be an understatement.

Also, in case you didn’t know, registrations for the competition are being accepted on a rolling basis so you can still sign up to compete.

Also in this week’s edition of The Rollup:

  • 🗞️ Latest ZK News & Reads

  • ✨ zkInspo

  • 💻 Opportunities to build the future of privacy

🗞️ ZK News & Reads

🏆 ZPrize 2023 is live!

We’re beyond excited to announce the launch of the second iteration of ZPrize! With the support of Aleo, AMD, Aztec, TrapDoor, SupraNational, Demox Labs, Ingonyama, ZKValidator, Cysic, and W3bCloud, ZPrize 2023 includes a prize pool of up $1.5 million in both US dollars and tokens.

This year’s prizes run the gamut from hardware acceleration on FPGAs and GPUs to the same via WASM and high throughput signature verification. Prize submissions will be judged against current, leading technical benchmarks in their respective niches, with the largest rewards being paid out to those who are judged to have innovated the most in their respective areas, as well as to have created new systems to further the adoption of zero-knowledge tech.

ZPrize 2023 categories include, “Beat the Best” (FPGA/GPU), “Beat the Best” (WASM), and High Throughput Signature Verification.

Learn more about this year’s competition and the significant achievements that came out of ZPrize 2022 by checking out our latest blog post

✨ zkInspo

From Green Beret to civilian advocate, Aleo CEO, Alex Pruden, relates his personal path to ZK tech and how he believes it can help to secure privacy and digital financial liberty globally. Check out this piece he penned for Blockworks.

🏗️ Build web3 Privacy

Be sure to check out ZPrize Hub: your all-inclusive resource for opportunities to join the ZPrize DAO and build the future of the ZPrize competition.

📜 The Rollup is brought to you by ZPrize: a collaborative effort across the blockchain industry dedicated to accelerating zero-knowledge cryptography.

You can expect to hear from us twice per month. In the meantime, follow us on X, check out our website, and connect with ZK builders in Discord.

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Yours in Privacy,

Team ZPrize