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The Rollup #3

The Rollup

March 9th, 2023

gm gm gm 🌞. In case no one’s told you yet, the future is private.

Here’s what we have lined up for you in this week’s edition of The Rollup:

A Twitter Space invite!
News on Polyhedra, ZK enabled digital IDs, zkEVMs & more
ETHDenver highlights
Join the ZPrize DAO
Some rofl ZK humor
ZK job opportunities

Ready? Let’s roll.

🐦 Join us to chat zkEVMs

Tune into Twitter Spaces on Wednesday, March 15th at 3pm ET for a conversation with ZPrize architect Weikeng Chen, Co-Founder of DZK.

We’ll discuss his involvement in ZPrize and what he’s been building on zkEVM since the competition. He’ll also take your questions!

📰 ZK news, reads, & listens

📖 The Story

The idea of a hardware-based ZK competition was first conceived at ETHDenver in 2022 by a group of expert technologists and cryptographers led by Aleo CEO, Alex Pruden. This year, we returned to the mountains to celebrate the success of the inaugural ZPrize competition and map out how we’ll continue to move ZK technology forward together as an industry-wide effort.

ZPrize: The Future is Private was a half-day summit held at ETHDenver, dedicated to convening the competition’s winners, architects, sponsors, and participants.

Here are a few of the highlights:

The Breaking Barriers in Hardware panel featured ZPrize competition sponsors Hamid Reza Salehi (center) from AMD and Raymond Liao from Samsung Next (left). They discussed the hardware landscape for zero-knowledge proofs, the importance of hardware acceleration, and the role of hardware in web3 at large. The conversation was moderated by Maggie Love from W3bCloud.

Jiannan Ouyang from Snarkify and Boyuan Feng from Manta Network spoke to moderator Luke Pearson from Polychain Capital about their respective efforts accelerating multi-scalar multiplication (MSM) in web browsers. They touched on Snarkify’s grant with the Mina Foundation to improve zero-knowledge proof generation for their browser client, and Manta Network’s perspective on the importance of strong WASM implementation to meet end users’ needs.

There was educational content for all (zero) knowledge levels throughout the afternoon. @serdave_eth took home first place during ZK Technology Trivia, landing a coveted ZPrize hoodie!

Last but certainly not least, thank you again to all ZPrize competitors, architects, and sponsors - particularly AMD for sponsoring the evening’s reception following ZPrize: The Future is Private.

Where to next? ZPrize is becoming a DAO, with the same competition and mission - now operated by the community.

As a DAO, we’ll scale ZPrize beyond its current form, making it a self-sustaining destination for the coordination of capital, education, and culture in the ZK space. The future of ZPrize will be defined by its members, which ensures it can continuously evolve to deliver maximum impact to the wider ZK community.

Join the ZPrize Pioneer community to get involved in the initial creation of the DAO, set the organization’s future direction, oversee future ZPrize competitions, and much more.

✨ zkInspo

Some rofl ZK humor to get you through the rest of the week

🏗️ Jobs in Privacy:

📜 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 Twitter, check out our website, and connect with ZK builders in Discord.

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Yours in Privacy,

Team ZPrize