The Ethereum Foundation collaborates with Aztec, Polygon, and others to launch a $900,000 ZK Grants program

The Ethereum Foundation is collaborating with Aztec, Polygon, Scroll, Taiko, and zkSync to launch the ZK Grants program to encourage research and development of zero-knowledge proofs and ZK L2 standards. Each sponsor and the Ethereum Foundation have contributed $150,000 to a shared prize pool for a total of $900,000.

Focus areas: Evaluate proof system performance, enhance ZK developer experience, establish security and risk benchmarks, develop mandatory inclusion tools and frontends for ZK L2, provide transpilers and hardware acceleration, implement multi-prover systems.

Application requirements: Submit proposals in PDF format including detailed descriptions, budgets, timelines, applicant bios,and links to public repositories or published work.

Application deadline: March 18th 2024. Decision results will be emailed within 6-8 weeks after the application deadline.

Eligibility criteria: Projects must be open-source,relevant to this round's objectives,and contribute to the development of the Ethereum ZK L2 ecosystem.