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Zama Bounty Program and Grant Program: Contribute to the FHE space and Zama's open source libraries and get rewarded 💰



Season 5 of the Zama Bounty Program is now over.
We will be announcing winners and new bounties for season 6 soon!

🎉 Welcome to the Zama Bounty Program

Zama is a cryptography company working on Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) and other tools that make protecting privacy easy. We started these experimental programs to encourage developers from the community to collaborate with us in advancing the FHE space!

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💰 About the Bounty Program

The Zama Bounty Program offers monetary rewards for tackling specific challenges.

This initiative aims to inspire and incentivize the developer community to create FHE applications and address problems that can drive FHE technology forward by a decade! Therefore, our Bounty program emphasizes innovation and contribution, rather than bug fixes.

Each season, we introduce bounties targeting a specific Zama library (Check Season 5 bounties). All submissions are evaluated based on the quality of the code, and more importantly the speed performance. At the end of each season, we reward up to 3 submissions per bounty.

Note

All our benchmarks are run on Amazon EC2 HPC7A instances.

Important dates

  • Season 5 is now over: Winners will be announced along their solutions in the coming days. Season 6 is coming soon.

❓FAQ

How often are list of bounties updated?
Season 1 was launched during Q4-2022. A season usually lasts several weeks to months in order to give contributors enough time to work on their solutions.

How long will it take for a bounty submission to be reviewed?
We are reviewing most of the submissions at the end of every seasons. But feel free to submit your code at any time here.

How are bounty submissions reviewed?
Every contributions to the bounty program is reviewed as a code submission. If the code does not meet the quality or the performance expected, the proposition will be rejected, or partially rewarded.

What is the reward for the bounty program?
Each bounty is attributed a total enveloppe of €10,000 in rewards.

🥇Best submission: up to €5,000.

To be considered best submission, a contribution must be efficient, effective and demonstrate a deep understanding of the core problem. Alongside the technical correctness, it should also be submitted with a clean code, clear explanations and a complete documentation.

🥈Second-best submission: up to €3,000.

For a contribution to be considered the second best submission, it should be both efficient and effective. The code should be neat and readable, while its documentation might not be as exhaustive as the best submission, it should cover the key aspects of the contribution.

🥉Third-best submission: up to €2,000.

The third best submission is one that presents a contribution that effectively tackles the challenge at hand, even if it may have certain areas of improvement in terms of efficiency or depth of understanding. Documentation should be present, covering the essential components of the contribution.


I have more questions, where can I contact the Zama team?
You can either write us at: bounty@zama.ai or ping us on the Zama libraries channels on the FHE.org discord here.

Who is reviewing submissions to the Zama bounty program?
Our program committee is responsible for reviewing your code, merging your final PR, and getting you your well-deserved reward. We have selected a broad range of Zama team members to ensure that the process is as fair, fast, and smooth as possible.

What are the terms and conditions of the Zama Bounty Program?
You can find the full terms and conditions for individuals and for companies.

🏆 Leaderboard

Rank User Collected
🏆 JoseSK999 13,750€
🥈 RKlompUU 10,000€
🥈 Iamayushanand 10,000€
🥈 Kroist 10,000€
🥉 Alpaylan 8,500€
6 Lcressot 7,500€
7 Tetration-Lab 7,500€
8 Poechsel 6,800€
9 Yagizsenal 4,000€
10 RasoulAM 3,750€
11 GoktugEk 3,500€
12 Tomtau 3,500€
13 Aditya-Chaurasia11 3,500€
14 M-Bln 1,500€
15 Joeyiny 1,500€
16 AmT42 500€
17 Oboulant 500€
18 Robinstraub 500€
19 Thomas-quadratic 500€
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