Summary

TThe KZG Ceremony is a coordinated public ritual (aka trusted setup, "Parameter Generation Event" in Zcash) which will provide a cryptographic foundation for Ethereum scaling initiatives. From the specs repo:

The ceremony takes place between participants and the sequencer. Participants are the entities that contribute their secret randomness to the final output 𝜏 s. The roll of the sequencer it to act as the common point of interaction for all participants as well as verifying participants' contribution as the ceremony progresses.

The ceremony is designed to have the following characteristics:

• wide ecosystem participation
• accessible via browser
• a meaningful narrative in a simple interface
• easy to audit transcript

The best place to follow along is the KZG Ceremony channel in the Ethereum R&D Discord or the bridged telegram channel.

Useful Links

• EIP-4844
• Proto-Danksharding FAQ
• KZG polynomial commitments
• KZG Ceremony Timeline (subject to change)
• Spec Repo
• Trusted Setup Rationale

Implementations

• Primary implementation (Rust)
• Towers of Pau

Latest work on other Ceremony Infra

• Contributor Identification
• Queue Strategy
• Draft Participant API

Public Calls

• #1 Agenda/Recording - June 9 2022
• #2 Agenda/Recording - June 23 2022
• #3 Agenda/Recording - July 7 2022
• #4 Agenda/Recording - July 21 2022
• #5 Agenda/Recording - Aug 4 2022
• #6 Agenda/Recording - Aug 18 2022
• #7 Agenda/Recording - Sept 1 2022
• #8 Agenda/Recording - Sept 15 2022