💰 Join Bounty Program | 🤝 Join Grant Program
🎉 Welcome to the Zama Bounty Program and Grant 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!
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.
- Submission deadline: May 12th, 2024 at 23:59 AoE (Anywhere on Earth).
- Season 5: February 9th, 2024 -> May 12th, 2024.
- Season 4 is now over. Winners have been announced.
Choose your favorite bounty to participate in Season 5 bounties, then follow the instructions in the description.
The Zama Grant Program provides funding to support projects and teams in building their own FHE applications using Zama's libraries.
At Zama, we believe that FHE will be the key solution to solve major privacy issues, and that it's the only way to make the internet encrypted end-to-end, so people don't have to care about privacy.
This program is designed to support projects and teams in creating FHE applications that address real-world privacy issues, and are intended to be continued in development and maintenance over time.
The Grant Program is open all year long without any specific deadline, you can apply anytime.
Please submit your application here[here].
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.
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.
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.
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.
What is the amount given for the grant program?
The amount attributed to projects accepeted to the Zama Grant Program is decided on a case by case basis, depending of the importance of the problem or the difficulty of its implementation.
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 grant and bounty program?
Our program committee is responsible for everything from accepting your initial contribution application to 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 and Grant Program?
You can find the full terms and conditions for individuals and for companies.
| 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€ |
| ? |  You |
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- Email for private questions: contribute@zama.ai
- Official discord channel for live discussions: discord.fhe.org.
- Zama community forum for technical questions: community.zama.ai.