1## Summary
 2
 3The KZG Ceremony is an Ethereum project which will provide a cryptographic foundation for scaling initiatives like EIP-4844: Proto-Danksharding. The Ceremony is a coordinated public ritual (aka trusted setup, "Parameter Generation Event" in Zcash) which is expected to have the following characteristics:
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 5- wide ecosystem participation
 6- accessible: possible to participate via browser
 7- a meaningful narrative in a simple interface 
 8- easy to audit transcript
 9
10From the specs repo:
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12> The ceremony takes place between participants and the coordinator. Participants are the entities that contribute their secret randomness to the final output 𝜏 s. The roll of the coordinator it to act as the common point of interaction for all participants as well as verifying participants' contribution as the ceremony progresses.
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14The best place to follow along is the KZG Ceremony channel in the Ethereum R&D Discord: [join here](https://discord.gg/bZrptf6Est).
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16## Useful Links
17- [EIP-4844](https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-4844)
18- [Proto-Danksharding FAQ](https://notes.ethereum.org/@vbuterin/proto_danksharding_faq)
19- [KZG polynomial commitments](https://dankradfeist.de/ethereum/2020/06/16/kate-polynomial-commitments.html)
20- [KZG Ceremony Timeline](https://notes.ethereum.org/@CarlBeek/kzg_ceremony_timelines) (subject to change)
21- [Spec Repo](https://github.com/ethereum/kzg-ceremony-specs) 
22- [Primary implementation](https://github.com/crate-crypto/small-powers-of-tau) (Rust)
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24## Other Implementations
25- [Towers of Pau](https://dknopik.de/)
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27## Latest work on other Ceremony Infra
28- [Contributor Identification](https://pse-team.notion.site/Contributor-Identification-bd2824138a5f446785fdd70c60684176)
29- [Queue Strategy](https://pse-team.notion.site/Queue-Strategy-c75120ae0c584e6f8db7738c9aaf963a)
30- [Draft Participant API](https://www.notion.so/pse-team/Participant-API-a9d82f45a7574da28e4e47bc2ffae1e1)
31
32## Public Calls
33- #1 [Agenda/Recording](https://github.com/ethereum/pm/issues/546) - June 9 2022
34- #2 [Agenda/Recording](https://github.com/ethereum/pm/issues/558) - June 23 2022
35- #3 [Agenda/Recording](https://github.com/ethereum/pm/issues/560) - July 7 2022
36- #4 [Agenda/Recording](https://github.com/ethereum/pm/issues/569) - July 21 2022
37- #5 [Agenda/Recording](https://github.com/ethereum/pm/issues/587) - Aug 4 2022