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 |