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# Scaling & Privacy Explorations Team
## Monthly Summary Template

Previous months: https://hackmd.io/EA-E-vFCSGmGKYggMCazVQ


## Scaling 

### Zkopru
*Wanseob*

#### Goal

Zkopru is an optimistic rollup that uses ZKPs to achieve privacy

#### Current status


#### Next steps


#### Who is involved?

Wanseob Lim, Chance Hudson, Jin, Rachel,x Takamichi, Luis

#### (anything particular I/we should pay attention to)
N/A

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### Zkopru Instant Finality
*Luis*

#### Goal


#### Links


#### Current status


#### Next steps


#### Who is involved?

#### (anything particular I/we should pay attention to)
N/A

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### BLS Sig Aggregation
*James*
#### Goal
Deploy a viable solution for users (and dapps) to save on L1 gas costs by making use of BLS signatures on L2s. Simultaneously encourage smart contract wallet use.

#### Links:
[bls-wallet](https://github.com/jzaki/bls-wallet) (monorepo)
Browser extension [demo](https://github.com/jzaki/bls-wallet-extension/pull/20) (ETH transfers)

#### Current status


#### Next steps


#### Who is involved?
Jake, Kautuk, James Zaki, Andrew M, James A (UX contractor), Chaitanya

#### (anything particular I/we should pay attention to)
N/A

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### Zkevm
*CC*
#### Goal
Create a zk-rollup that directly supports evm

#### Links
- https://hackmd.io/@yezhang/S1_KMMbGt
- https://github.com/appliedzkp/zkevm-specs

#### Current status


#### Next steps


#### Who is involved?
Barry, CC, Onur, Han, Carlos, Miha, YingTong

Also external teams from Scroll Tech and Loopring

#### (anything particular I/we should pay attention to)
N/A

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## Privacy
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### MACI
*Wei Jie*

#### Goal

Make quadratic funding bribery resistant. In Gitcoin you can bribe people. MACI makes this impossible.

#### Current status


#### Next steps


#### Who is involved?
WJ, Cory, Samuel

#### (anything particular I/we should pay attention to)
N/A

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### Unirep Social
*Vivien* 
#### Goal

Use Unirep to make a private social network like reddit. 

#### Links:
https://github.com/unirep/unirep-social

#### Current status


#### Next steps


#### Who is involved?
Vivian, Doris, Rachel

#### (anything particular I/we should pay attention to)
N/A

### Semaphore Voting App
*Andrija*

#### Goal

Update semaphore, make it easy to deploy and integrate with another projects and create a voting demo.

#### Current status


#### Next steps


#### Who is involved?
Andrija 


#### (anything particular I/we should pay attention to)
N/A


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## ZKP 

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## Mechanism Design and Other Projects
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### InterRep
*Geoff*

#### Goal

Export my twitter data so that I can make ZKPs about it on ethereum. 

#### Links:
https://kovan.interrep.link/
https://github.com/InterRep/reputation-service
https://thegraph.com/hosted-service/subgraph/interrep/interrep-groups-kovan

#### Current status


#### Next steps


#### Who is involved?
Geoff, Omar, Neil, Justin

#### (anything particular I/we should pay attention to)

N/A

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### EVM Rollup Reviews
*Kyle, Kev*

#### Goal

Security audits for Optimism and Arbitrum implementations of the Optimistic Rollup and MACI. 

#### Current status


#### Next steps


#### Who is involved?
Kyle
Kev

#### (anything particular I/we should pay attention to)
N/A


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### Clr.fund for Everyone
*Q*

#### Goal
Make it easy for any community to run their own CLR round with clr.fund. The goal of the project is to make it easy for any community to run their own CLR round with clr.fund. Last sprint we cut initial releases of the Clr.fund deployer, subgraph, and documentation archives. 

#### Links
Alpha releases: 
- [Deployer](https://clrfund-xdai.on.fleek.co/#/)
- [Subgraph](https://thegraph.com/legacy-explorer/subgraph/daodesigner/clrfund-xdai?selected=playground)
- [Documentation](https://clrfund.gitbook.io/deployer/)

#### Current status

 
#### Next steps


#### Who is involved?
Q (DAODesigner)

#### (anything particular I/we should pay attention to)


### RLN
*Blagoj*

#### Goal
RLN (Rate limiting nullfier) is a construct based on zero-knowledge proofs that enables spam prevention mechanism for decentralized, anonymous environments. In anonymous environments, the identity of the entities is unknown.

#### Links:
- https://ethresear.ch/t/semaphore-rln-rate-limiting-nullifier-for-spam-prevention-in-anonymous-p2p-setting/5009
- https://github.com/bdim1/rlnapp
- https://github.com/akinovak/rln-circuits
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziGNnIELZfI
- CloudFlare RateLimiting PoC: https://github.com/bdim1/rln-interrep-cloudflare

#### Current status


#### Next steps


#### Who is involved in the project?
Blagoj, Andrija

#### (anything particular I/we should pay attention to)
N/A

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### Prediction Markets for Content Curation
*Janmajaya*

#### Goal
Use of prediction markets for content curation of social networking platforms.

#### Links:
- https://hackmd.io/1vQ5zhzjTcycX_OWRwmIXg
- https://github.com/Janmajayamall/meme-curator

#### Current Status
 

#### Next steps


#### Who is involved?
Jay
#### (anything particular I/we should pay attention to)
N/A

### Zkopru exchange
*Takamichi*

#### Goal
Build private exchange where users can exchange their assets without revealing their identities, peer lists and order prices. 

#### Links:
- https://hackmd.io/1vQ5zhzjTcycX_OWRwmIXg
- https://github.com/Janmajayamall/meme-curator

#### Current Status


#### Next steps


#### Who is involved?
Jay
#### (anything particular I/we should pay attention to)
N/A

## Completed/no updates

### Hubble

#### Goal

An optimistic rollup that is transfer specific. It will later be programmable but application specific.

#### Current status

Team has moved off of this project
 
#### Links:
https://github.com/thehubbleproject/hubble-contracts

#### Next steps
N/A 

#### Who is involved?
Jake and Kautuk

#### (anything particular I/we should pay attention to)
N/A

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### MPC Phase 2 User Interface 
*Geoff*

#### Goal

Make it easy for everyone to run a trusted setup

#### Current status

Completed

Links:
https://github.com/glamperd/setup-mpc-ui

#### Next steps

#### Who is involved?
Geoff

#### (anything particular I/we should pay attention to)
N/A

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### Perpetual Powers of Tau

#### Goal 

Perform the first part of the trusted setup. Can be used for groth16 but also plonk and marlin as their entire trusted setup. 

#### Links:
https://github.com/weijiekoh/perpetualpowersoftau


#### Current status 
No new participants

#### Next steps 

#### Who is involved?
Elizibeth, Wei Jie
