Explore Expander Bootcamp

Join us for a six-week programme to learn, build and win $250k in prizes.

Launching 20th January!

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How it works

  • Learn to develop with zero-knowledge, Expander, and GKR

  • Build and contribute to the future of Ethereum

  • Receive a certificate of completion

  • Win grants and pitch investors


Polyhedra is building foundational infrastructure for trust and scalability in AI and blockchain systems enabling secure, verifiable and high-performance applications.

Prize Pool

250,000 USD in Grants

The best project in each bounty track will receive a $50,000 grant.

Bounty Tracks

Efficient Onchain Verifiers Using Recursive GKR Compression

Account Abstraction with zkLogin (Keyless Login)

Single Slot Finality: Post-Quantum Signature for BEAM Chain Consensus

Building zkML with GKR Protocol

Post-Quantum Private Transactions on Ethereum

Moderators and Lecturers

Vitalik Buterin (Ethereum Foundation)

Lev Soukhanov (Ethereum Foundation)

Zhenfei Zhang (Polyhedra)

Alin Tomescu (Aptos)

Dmitry Khovratovich (Ethereum Foundation)

Dan Boneh (Stanford University)

Shumo Chu (Nebra)

Yupeng Zhang (UIUC)

Jens Groth (Nexus)

Abhi Shelat (Google)

Wei Dai (1kx)

Ryan Cao (World)

Tiancheng Xie (Polyhedra)

Justin Drake (Ethereum Foundation)

Schedule

20/1/25 Launch Event
20/1/25 Overview of Proving Systems
22/1/25 Post-quantum Aggregatable Signature
23/1/25 Native Rollup
24/1/25 Utilzing the Expander Compiler Collection
27/1/25 Introduction to Private Transactions
28/1/25 GKR and zkML
29/1/25 GKR Proof Recursion
30/1/25 Build zkVM from GKR
31/1/25 CUDA-accelearted GKR Prover
Date TBA Building ZK Circuits
Date TBA Introduction to Expander and GKR
Date TBA Privacy Preserving Machine Learning
Date TBA Exploring Verkle Tree Structure
Date TBA ZK Proofs and Merkle Trees
Date TBA Introduction to Account Abstraction
Date TBA zkLogin Architecture
Whole Time Project Building!
Whole Time Office Hours
2/3/25 Project Submission Deadline
Early March Project Review
Early March Pitch Practice for Finalists
Tuesday, 18th Mar Finale and Prizegiving

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