Accelerating the Future Of

Zero Knowledge Cryptography

dedicated to accelerating
zero-knowledge cryptography

Zero-knowledge cryptography is a groundbreaking new technology enabling privacy, interoperability, and scalability for Web 3.0 protocols and applications. Like the DARPA Grand Challenge, select teams will compete for monetary prizes spanning a range of categories. Over $7M in prize money has been committed, along with token grants from sponsoring projects.

All winning submissions will become open-source libraries for the benefit of all. We hope this foundation can support the next generation of decentralized protocols and applications to enable secure, interoperable, and scalable applications for the next-generation web.

Competition Goals

1

Improve Baseline Performance of Key General Algorithms.

2

Increase Diversity and Availability of Low-Level Libraries for Cryptographic Proofs.

3

Increase Awareness of the Groundbreaking Potential of Zero-Knowledge Cryptography.

ZPrize is a collaborative effort across the blockchain industry that includes over 32 partners and sponsors contributing time, effort, and resources to make this initiative a success. If you'd like to become a partner, please reach out here.

Prizes

* General interest prize category for public goods which benefit multiple protocols/proof systems

open division

Accelerating MSM Operations on GPU/FPGA

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Accelerating NTT Operations on an FPGA

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Plonk-DIZK GPU Acceleration

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Accelerating Elliptic Curve Operations and Finite Field Arithmetic (WASM)

open division

Accelerating PLONKUP

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Accelerating the Poseidon Hash Function

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Accelerating MSM on Mobile

* Prize categories defined by individual teams that are specific to a given protocol/proof-system

Team Division

Fast Verifier for Marlin Proof System

Team Division

Proof-of-Succinct Work Acceleration (GPU)

Team Division

Proof-of-Succinct Work Acceleration (FPGA)

Team Division

Fastest MASP Circuit Groth16 Prover (WASM)

Team Division

Halo2 Acceleration

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Prize winners will be determined in good faith and in the sole discretion of prize sponsors

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