Wormhole forges ZK-focused partnership with AMD — and more from recent ZK news.

Gm ZK enthusiasts 📩,

Another week, another bustling roundup of ZK news and developments. Let’s cut to the chase and dive right in — here’s the latest in all things ZK across the ecosystem!

In this week’s edition of The Rollup:

• 🗞️ The latest in ZK news

• 🧵 ZK in the Twitterverse

• 🌄 ZK at ETHDenver

• 🏗️ Opportunities to build the future of privacy

📰 ZK in the news

• Wormhole forges a new partnership with AMD, leveraging zero-knowledge tech to accelerate cross-chain interoperability and fortify digital asset security.

• Animoca and Polygon launch Humanity Protocol, a privacy-preserving, biometric palm recognition technology for verifying Web3 identity.

• ZeroBiometrics partners with V-Key, with the goal of setting a new privacy standard in digital identity verification using ZKP-based biometric authentication methods.

• Polygon Labs introduces the type 1 prover, enabling EVM-compatible chains to adopt zero-knowledge scaling technology to enhance efficiency and reduce transaction costs.

• Starket's airdrop kicks off with 728m STRK tokens sent to 1.3 million wallets, reaching a fully diluted valuation of $20.1b overnight.

🧵 ZK in the Twitterverse

💸 More funding, more ZK scaling solutions — The Ethereum Foundation just announced a grant program dedicated to ZK-based L2 scaling solutions. The first round of grants was announced in collaboration with Aztec, Polygon, Scroll, Taiko, and zkSync, and this initiative is expected to accelerate the development of new, industry-wide ZK standards.

🔥Hot off the (Twitter) press — Cronos releases the v1 litepaper for Cronos zkEVM L2, including previously undisclosed details on its liquidity sharing model, yield-generating capabilities, and native account abstraction features. Soak it all in before the June 2024 mainnet launch!

👀 Bitcoin for DeFi? — Citrea announces $2.7m seed round to build Bitcoin's first ZK rollup. With this, Citrea is aiming to be the first L2 that uses Bitcoin as a data availability layer and settlement layer – all within a flexible, EVM-equivalent execution environment.

🌄 ZK at ETHDenver

If you’re at ETHDenver this week, join in the action at Aleo's zkHouse – an interactive three-day experience for zero-knowledge enthusiasts of all levels!

Pro tip: If you want the full scoop on the latest in ZK cryptography research, hardware, and app development, you should definitely check out zkTalks.

Here are some other ZK-focused events that’ll be popping off at ETHDenver:

• zkHangout (Mina PRotocol, LambdaClass)

• zkDay Denver (Manta Network, Polychain)

• ZKinAction (zkmonk, AKshay)

• House of ZK (ZKM)

🏗️ Build web3 privacy

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