zama-ai/bounty-program

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Mindmap

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  root((zama bounties))
    What it does
      Historical bounty record
      FHE challenge archive
      Contributor leaderboard
    FHE concepts
      Encrypted computation
      No decryption needed
      Cloud data privacy
    Audience
      Cryptography researchers
      FHE contributors
    Status
      Archived program
      Successor program active

mindmap root((zama bounties)) What it does Historical bounty record FHE challenge archive Contributor leaderboard FHE concepts Encrypted computation No decryption needed Cloud data privacy Audience Cryptography researchers FHE contributors Status Archived program Successor program active

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Things people build with this

USE CASE 1

Browse past winning FHE challenge solutions to understand the calibre of work Zama rewarded.

USE CASE 2

Find inspiration for contributing to the successor Zama Developer Program by studying historical bounty descriptions.

USE CASE 3

Research who the top contributors to open-source FHE tooling are before joining the community.

Getting it running

Difficulty · easy Time to first run · 5min

In plain English

This repository is the home of the Zama Bounty Program. Zama is a cryptography company that works on Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE), a technique that lets you run computations on encrypted data without ever decrypting it, so a cloud service could process your information while never being able to read it. The bounty program offers monetary rewards (paid in euros) to developers who tackle specific FHE-related challenges contributed by Zama, with the goal of pushing the technology forward and growing the open-source ecosystem around their libraries. The README notes that the emphasis is on innovation and contribution rather than on bug fixes. The page itself is essentially a public scoreboard and entry point. It shows the season of the program, links into the Zama Discord and community pages, and lists a leaderboard of past contributors ranked by total euros earned, with the top earner above sixteen thousand euros and dozens of other paid contributors below. The README also references sections on previous winning solutions, support channels, and a FAQ. Notably, an archive note at the top says this page has been archived and directs interested developers to the newer Zama Developer Program for current bounties. So in practice the repository is now a historical record of who won what during the bounty program's run, useful if you want to see the calibre of work that was rewarded or read past winning submissions for inspiration before joining the successor program. There is no code in the description or topics, only documentation, the topics list cryptography, fully-homomorphic-encryption, and bounty-program. The full README is longer than what was provided.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1

Summarize the kinds of FHE challenges that were rewarded in Zama's bounty program and what skills they required.

Prompt 2

Explain Fully Homomorphic Encryption in plain English: what problem does it solve and why is it hard to implement?

Prompt 3

Based on the winning solutions in Zama's bounty program, what are the most common real-world use cases for computing on encrypted data?

Prompt 4

What open-source FHE libraries does Zama maintain and how would I get started contributing through their developer program?

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