1## Summary
 2
 3The KZG Ceremony is a coordinated public ritual which will provide a cryptographic foundation for Ethereum scaling initiatives. From the specs repo:
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 5> 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.
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 7The ceremony is designed to have the following characteristics:
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 9- wide ecosystem participation
10- accessible via browser
11- a meaningful narrative in a simple interface 
12- easy to audit transcript
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14The best place to follow along is the KZG Ceremony channel in the Ethereum R&D Discord or the bridged telegram channel - DM one of the contributors to be added to either.
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16## Context
17- [How do trusted setups work?](https://vitalik.ca/general/2022/03/14/trustedsetup.html)
18- [EIP-4844](https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-4844)
19- [Proto-Danksharding FAQ](https://notes.ethereum.org/@vbuterin/proto_danksharding_faq)
20- [KZG polynomial commitments](https://dankradfeist.de/ethereum/2020/06/16/kate-polynomial-commitments.html)
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22## KZG Ceremony
23- [KZG Ceremony Timeline](https://notes.ethereum.org/@CarlBeek/kzg_ceremony_timelines) (subject to change)
24- [Spec Repo](https://github.com/ethereum/kzg-ceremony-specs) 
25- [Primary implementation](https://github.com/crate-crypto/small-powers-of-tau) (Rust)
26- [SECBIT Spec + Implementation Audit](https://github.com/ethereum/kzg-ceremony/blob/main/KZG10-Ceremony-audit-report.pdf)
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28## Other Documentation
29- [Trusted Setup Rationale](https://hackmd.io/@6iQDuIePQjyYBqDChYw_jg/SJ-08AoT5)
30- [Towers of Pau](https://dknopik.de/)
31- [Contributor Identification](https://pse-team.notion.site/Contributor-Identification-bd2824138a5f446785fdd70c60684176)
32- [Queue Strategy](https://pse-team.notion.site/Queue-Strategy-c75120ae0c584e6f8db7738c9aaf963a)
33- [Draft Participant API](https://www.notion.so/pse-team/Participant-API-a9d82f45a7574da28e4e47bc2ffae1e1)
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35## Public Calls
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37| Call #  |              Link |  Date |
38| ---: | ---:        |        ---: |
39| 1 | [Agenda/Recording](https://github.com/ethereum/pm/issues/546) | June 9 2022 | 
40| 2 | [Agenda/Recording](https://github.com/ethereum/pm/issues/558) | June 23 2022| 
41| 3 | [Agenda/Recording](https://github.com/ethereum/pm/issues/560) | July 7 2022| 
42| 4 | [Agenda/Recording](https://github.com/ethereum/pm/issues/569) | July 21 2022| 
43| 5 | [Agenda/Recording](https://github.com/ethereum/pm/issues/587) | Aug 4 2022| 
44| 6 | [Agenda/Recording](https://github.com/ethereum/pm/issues/593) | Aug 18 2022| 
45| 7 | [Agenda/Recording](https://github.com/ethereum/pm/issues/613) | Sept 1 2022| 
46| 8 | [Agenda/Recording](https://github.com/ethereum/pm/issues/623) | Sept 15 2022| 
47| 9 | [Agenda/Recording](https://github.com/ethereum/pm/issues/636) | Sept 29 2022|