Announcing NRG#2 Selected Proposals

[Savio-Sou]

Overview

The NRG#2 initiative orients around pushing the frontiers of cryptographic Private Shared States (PSS), and in turn innovative and valuable use cases once unachievable.

As a strong believer in the vision, Aztec Labs is sponsoring a total of $100,000 in grants to support two selected teams to research and build their foresights on PSS with Noir.

After careful consideration, we are excited to share that the following 2 project teams will be supported with the grants sponsorships to research and realize their ideas:

Selected Proposals

HashCloak - Publicly Verifiable & Private Collaborative ML Model Training

The HashCloak team sets out to develop verifiable, privacy-preserving machine learning leveraging co-noir technology, challenging the status quo of trusted and obscure model training.

Learn more reading the team’s full proposal: https://github.com/orgs/noir-lang/discussions/6317

Pablo and team - Multiplayer games with shared map but private pieces

Pablo and his team sets out to achieve conditionally revealed multiplayer game states with oblivious transfers and Noir, challenging the status quo of trusting orchestrating agents as the middlemen.

Learn more reading the team’s full proposal: https://github.com/orgs/noir-lang/discussions/6359

What’s next

For selected project teams

Savio will reach out and set up an NRG#2 kickoff calls with each of the selected teams respectively. Feel free to bring questions up with the Aztec Labs team anytime.

For all project teams

Your passion and support for NRG#2 has been nothing but amazing. Your proposals have continued to exceed all our expectations with top-tier quality.

NRG is just one of the many ways to kickstart your research with Noir. You are more than welcome to also:

• Join the Noir Discord to brainstorm project ideas and share research progress with other Noirots
• Apply for Aztec Labs’ grants program to retroactively support your researches and developments with Noir

Let us bring the world ZKPs and privacy!

For all readers

Follow Noir on X: https://x.com/NoirLang and stay tuned for the upcoming project team reports and all things happening in the Noir ecosystem!

Acknowledgements

I would love to thank all researchers and developers that have submitted a proposal. The exceptional bar of quality shown has made the selection of proposals to sponsor a very tough decision. Looking forward to working with you all in the Noir ecosystem.

Thank you to Aztec Labs for the generous support sponsoring grants for the selected proposals of this campaign.

Thank you to the Marlin and Taceo teams for providing NRG#2 participants with infrastructural tooling and technical advisory.

What’s next with NRG

NRG is an open platform first and foremost for all grassroot Noir research, where all are welcome to leverage it to host Noir research initiatives.

If you have questions and/or want support starting an NRG (e.g. have an idea but lacking resources, want to support NRGs but not sure how), do not hesitate to message Savio on Signal.

Stay tuned for more upcoming NRGs!

DISCLAIMER

The information set out herein is for discussion purposes only and does not represent any binding indication or commitment by Aztec Labs and its employees to take any action whatsoever, including relating to the structure, any potential operation and/or features of the Aztec protocol, the protocol roadmap or the Noir language. In particular: (i) nothing in these posts is intended to create any contractual or other form of legal relationship with Aztec Labs or third parties who engage with such posts (including, without limitation, by submitting a proposal or responding to posts), (ii) by engaging with any post, the relevant persons are consenting to Aztec Labs’ use and publication of such engagement and related information on an open-source basis (and agree that Aztec Labs will not treat such engagement and related information as confidential), and (iii) Aztec Labs is not under any duty to consider any or all engagements, and that consideration of such engagements and any decision to award grants or other rewards for any such engagement is entirely at Aztec Labs’ sole discretion. Please do not rely on any information on this forum for any purpose - the development, release, and timing of any products, features or functionality remains subject to change and is currently entirely hypothetical. Nothing on this forum should be treated as an offer to sell any security or any other asset by Aztec Labs or its affiliates, and you should not rely on any forum posts or content for advice of any kind, including legal, investment, financial, tax or other professional advice.