A place where people can work on these open problems, I shouldn't be saying anything specific of financials of inner workings or protocols but from the way some of the things went in 2021, it's a very little cast for lots of these treasuries etc to have some of these problems solved outwards. And so this is maybe a PSA to anyone out there who thinks they have the skills to contribute to this because not only is it a great public good for the community but also, you know, again, in light of the interest here there's a lot of people willing to sponsor these prizes and potentially could be a good chance to earn some extra money for these otherwise relatively esoteric and
In this 2-part series exploring ZK Hardware, Anna Rose interviews various participants from the ZPrize competition, alongside the creator of ZPrize and co-host of this episode Alex Pruden from Aleo. Through these interviews, they dig into the different types of hardware, such as GPUs and FPGAs, that can be used to accelerate ZKP computation. They also discuss the underlying mathematical techniques in ZKPs that can be optimized for and the tricks and strategies that ZPrize competitors used to achieve these optimizations.
In Part 1 of the series, Anna and Alex first interview Luke Pearson from Polychain Capital, who was an architect on the ZPrize. They then interview Ben Devlin and Rahul Yesantharao from Jane Street who were members of one of the winning teams, Hardcaml.
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