Announcing the KZG Ceremony Grants Round - funding to build core Ethereum infra / EIP-4844!

Announcing the Ceremony Grants Round! ????

• Twitter thread
• Full post
• Form - Apply before Jan 31st

The Ethereum community is running a Powers of Tau ceremony to enable EIP-4844 ???? As a refresher, check out this summary thread about this crucial prerequisite on the path towards our network scaling.

The Ceremony will remain credible & secure long-term if we can provide many sources of hard-to-bias entropy. Towards this goal, a Grants Round! We're looking to support two types of projects with funding:

• additional implementations ????‍????
  • these will reduce the risk of a bug in any single one, gives participants more options, supports the comm. engaging with its infra
  • if you've been looking for an excuse to get more familiar w/ KZG or Powers of Tau setups, this is a golden opportunity!
• unique entropy sources ????
  • Although the Ceremony only needs a single honest participant to be secure, we want to take it a step further and make the social assurances around it as airtight as possible..
  • ..which means getting entropy (randomness) from sources that are _really_ hard to bias / mess with eg. in the @zcash Sapling setup, Andrew Miller and Ryan Pierce famously measured radioactivity from a Chernobyl artifact while flying at 3000 ft ✈ (link to video)
  • While we're not expecting every idea to be this involved, we do encourage people to think outside the box and be creative!
  • Where can you get randomness that's especially unique to your city/ community? What can you think of to engage your local Ethereum comm. to help?
  • How will you document the project to prove to other Ceremony participants that your methodology was sound? We're excited to see the proposals you all dream up - remember to read the post for more details and the application link!
    

This Ceremony is a unique opportunity for anyone to play an important role in building Ethereum protocol infra!

The best way you can help before the start of the Ceremony is w/ awareness: spread the word by retweeting this thread OR sending this info to someone you think would be interested in funding for these types of projects!