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    RISC Zero

    RISC Zero is making it easier-than-ever to use ZK to scale Ethereum itself and apps on Ethereum.

    risczero.com ↗@RiscZero ↗
    Prize money awarded
    $15,500
    Prizes
    14
    Winning projects
    13
    Hackathons
    2
    Largest prize
    $2,000
    Active
    2023–2024

    What they reward

    Tech their winners favour

    Share of RISC Zero's winners using it, against all entries at the same hackathons.

    • rust31% of winners · 6% of entries
    • foundry23% of winners · 5% of entries
    • zk38% of winners · 9% of entries

    Hackathons

    1. Scaling Ethereum 2024 Apr 5–26, 2024$10KGold10$10K
    2. Waterloo Jun 23–25, 2023$5KProvider3$5.5K

    Winners

    All 13 winning projects →

    Bonfire Wallet

    Bonfire Wallet is a passwordless burner wallet that leverages WebAuthen to onboard the next 1 million crypto users, with biometrics or a token for authentication, making it accesible to anyone entering the crypto ecosystem.

    $4,000 · Risc Zero · 🥇 Risc Zero — Best Use of Bonsai · +1 more

    z0Wallet

    Z0Wallet Is a privacy focused multi sig wallet powered by the risc0 stack

    $1,291 · RISC Zero · ZK Coprocessor Bounty · +1 more

    Thumper

    Creating more structured zk setup ceremonies with trustless coordination, privacy, sybil-resistance, and zk-proven results

    $1,250 · RISC Zero · ZK Coprocessor Bounty

    Colibri

    Colibri is a tool to create verifiable omni-chain balances.Colibri works with Risc0 and IPC. Users need to create a wrapped token representing the balance of a user for a certain token, then Colibri asks risc0 to create a proof of balance.

    $1,250 · RISC Zero · ZK Coprocessor Bounty

    ODESEC

    ODESEC stands for On-chain Database of Emergency Security Event Contact. Through this database and the corresponding mechanism, project teams can filter out spam, quickly receive effective emergency vulnerability reports, and make timely responses.

    $1,000 · RISC Zero · Best zkVM Application

    zkora

    A platform where you can write JS scripts that run in a ZK-VM to offload on-chain Solidity computations.

    $1,000 · RISC Zero · Best zkVM Application

    Collaptz

    Verified distributed computation of the Collatz conjecture. Leveraging risc0's zkVM to verify Collatz sequences from anyone in the world.

    $1,000 · Risc Zero · 🥈 Risc Zero — Best Use of Bonsai

    BuildFi

    Raise funds for your project from day 1 and discover up and coming protocols to invest in. BuildFi enables small developers who build in public to raise funds from people who believe in the future of their projects

    $707 · RISC Zero · On-chain Identity Bounty · +1 more

    Easy Key

    Easy Key is a simple payment solution using phone numbers & zk for authentication. Send and claim low-cost crypto payments with your contacts hassle-free.

    $667 · RISC Zero · On-chain Identity Bounty

    zkbiometric

    Our system enhances authentication by securely verifying biometric onboarding data against a real-time challenge within a zkVM, using zero-knowledge proofs to ensure robust identity confirmation and maintain user privacy.

    $667 · RISC Zero · On-chain Identity Bounty