ZK-News - 14th-20th October '24
✨ ZK-Newsflash! ✨
Here are the highlights of what happened in the ZK space last week, 14th - 20th October.
Alignoors, get ready! We couldn't be more excited to announce the judges for the Aligned Builders Hackathon! 🎉
We're thrilled to have:
✅ Vanishree Rao, founder Fermah.
✅ Nader Dabit, director of devrel EigenLayer.
✅ Austin Griffith, founder BuidlGuidl.
✅ dcbuilder, research engineer World.
Don't forget to check out our posts on the judging criteria and prizes, as well as detailed information about the hackathon. You can find this in the linked thread.
We're proud to have hosted the Aligned Hackerhouse in Istanbul, connecting with talented developers! 💻
This Hackerhouse led to some incredible ideas and projects. It's exciting to see innovative use cases for ZK and how it can impact the world!
We are grateful to node101 for helping us grow our connections with the Turkish community. Teşekkürler!
Federico Carrone made a disruptive announcement introducing Rogue, a decentralized ZK L2 owned by its community. 🥊
This project was born as a response to the multiple problems that the crypto landscape currently presents.
Its main goal is bringing crypto back to its foundational roots.
✅ No VCs.
✅ No team allocation.
✅ And a fair launch that ensures equal access for everyone.
Are you going rogue?
If you wanna be a protagonist of the story, read the full announcement here.
StarkWare presents an overview of the developer ecosystem on Starknet. ⚡️
The announcement highlights key metrics, including the number of active Cairo developers per month and the growth of Starknet's developer community over time. Furthermore, the announcement provides resources to support new developers.
Impressive progress. Congrats to Starknet and its community.
Mina shared its product priorities for the next six months. 💜
This roadmap aims to:
✅ Enhance App Development.
✅ Build Key Web3 Infrastructure.
✅ Support End-User Growth.
This is a very exciting update. Read on to learn more about the cool new capabilities coming soon to Mina.
Nexus hosted Giacomo Fenzi’s talk on STIR: Reed-Solomon Proximity Testing with Fewer Queries. 🚀
The event took place on October 16th and was co-hosted by Polyhedra and Zhenfei Zhang.
These initiatives are incredibly interesting and useful. Congratulations!
Another amazing The Rollup episode about ‘Why ZK is Perfect for Offchain Computation’ with Michael Dong of Brevis. 📢
They discussed:
✅ The limitations of onchain computation.
✅ Why they chose to use EigenLayer.
✅ What usecases exist for coprocessors.
✅ And many more.
Listen to it and deep dive into this insightful conversation.
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