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Application Guidelines (Archived)

These guidelines describe the requirements used when applications were open. They are retained for reference; new proposals are not being accepted.

Applications required a written proposal in PDF format addressing the following details:

1. Proposal overview

   • Proposed work, including goals, approach, and expected outcomes. Proposals should clearly explain what the proposal's target is and what a successful completion of the work would enable.

   • Chosen methods and tools.

   • Challenges, risks, and expected caveats.

   • Timeline, including possible milestones. Do you need some other work to be completed (by yourself or others) before beginning your proposed work?

   • Team composition.

   • Costs.

2. Technical approach

   • Breakdown of technical tasks.

   • References to relevant work.

3. Project management

   • Plans for coordination and communication about your work.

   • Approach to maintaining or extending your work and enabling external contributions to facilitate this.

   • Planned resource allocation (human and financial).

4. Team

   • Background and expertise of your team members.

   • Track record, including public repositories and published work relevant to your proposal.

Applications were open to individuals, teams, and organizations, with funding selected on a case-by-case basis. Applicants could submit more than one proposal as long as each proposal was distinct and relevant to the project. Funding was subject to a KYC process.

Several independent proposals could have similar goals. In such cases, several proposals could be funded if comparing the results of different approaches to the same problem would be useful, or if several teams could work together on similar or complementary goals. Flexibility in this regard was encouraged.

Proposals for general tooling were expected to explain how the tooling would be useful within the expected lifetime of this project (e.g., verifying a specific artefact) and how others could also use it.

Applications related to the cryptography track were expected to take into account ArkLib.

Applications related to circuits were expected to take into account LLZK.

Awarded Grants