# KZG Special Contribution Info *Join the Grantee telegram chat [here](https://t.me/+6yeekBWTi3JkYzdh)* *Book your Special Contribution slot [here](https://calendly.com/kzg-ceremony/special-contributions)* This document outlines a number of points which may help steer your Special Contribution. If you have a question not addressed here, please join the telegram channel above and share it! --- 👩‍🔬 Special Contributions differ from regular contributions in that you may only login if your address has been whitelisted and only during your contribution slot and that you will have a dedicated 4 hour slot to do you contribution. This means, no waiting in the lobby and that you can take (up to) the full 4 hours to complete your contribution. If for some reason you miss your chosen slot, please reach out to Carl or Trent ASAP. 👩‍💻 We recommend the client from either Ignacio ([client](https://github.com/jsign/go-kzg-ceremony-client), [docs](https://github.com/jsign/go-kzg-ceremony-client/tree/jsign/satellite#offline-contributions)) or Patricio ([client](https://github.com/PatriceVignola/cpp-kzg-ceremony-client), [docs](https://github.com/PatriceVignola/cpp-kzg-ceremony-client#usage)). Both allow for offline contributions which use local files as input and output, instead of networked response to the Sequencer Server. This is the method many of you will be using for your contribution. 📅 We intend for the Special period to run from April 1-16th. This may change slightly depending on the needs of participants. ⏲ Book your slot at the Special Contribution **[Calendly page](https://calendly.com/kzg-ceremony/special-contributions)**. If this range or set of slots does not work for you, please email ceremony@ethereum.org or reach out to Carl / Trent. Depending on the needs of other grantees with less flexibility, we may ask you to move to another slot in order to help everyone complete their contribution. :moneybag: Funding will be distributed once you/your team have produced the final documentation of the contribution. We will submit your information to the EF's Ecosystem Support Program (ESP), who will distribute it to you. :camera: Make sure to record your process well enough during the event to accurately communicate how the entropy was generated, computed over, and destroyed. This is crucial for the legitimacy of the Special Contributions, as the Ethereum community may look back on this for years to come. This can be through audio, video, photos, or detailed notes taken during, as long as the entropy is never fully recorded. From there, we recommend compiling whatever documentation into a coherent blogpost - Carl and Trent can work with you to review once you're ready. :desktop_computer: "An air-gapped computer is isolated from unsecured networks, meaning that it is not directly connected to the internet, nor is it connected to any other system that is connected to the internet. A true air gapped computer is also physically isolated, meaning data can only be passed to it physically (via USB, removable media or a firewire with another machine)." [Source](https://www.thesslstore.com/blog/air-gapped-computer/)
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The Cryptosat team kicked off the Special Contribution period with a contribution from space aboard their Crypto 2 satellite. Read about what they did and how on their blog.

7/26/2023
KZG Ceremony - Final Verification options

This is basically a question of where the boundary between individuals verifying and client teams implementing lies. How much work should be required to verify that client teams correctly put the output of the ceremony into the clients? Do we need everyone to verify the exact file gets included in clients, or are we ok having only some people do it and anyone can check at any time.

6/30/2023
Announcing the KZG Ceremony

High fees have made life difficult for travelers through these Dark Forests. The Pools of Mem once clouded, now clarified by the filter of 1559, reveal that they are not deep enough to sustain. Legends tell of a society flourishing under the abundance brought about by DankShard, of giant Roll-Ups subsisting on fields of nourishing Data Blobs, each supporting their own fractal nutrient layers. To summon DankShard, our guides point us to a Ceremony. All members of the Lands of Ether and abroad are encouraged to contribute. Each will add their unique contribution to the collective and in doing so, illuminate the path forward. Overview The KZG Ceremony is a coordinated public ritual which will provide a cryptographic foundation for Ethereum scaling efforts like EIP-4844 (aka proto-danksharding). These types of events are also known as "Trusted Setups," famously used by Zcash to bootstrap the chain's privacy features. However, they can also be used to support scaling mechanisms, as Ethereum plans to do. Proto-danksharding requires a new cryptographic scheme: KZG Commitments. will generate a structured reference string (SRS) which is needed for the commitments to work. An SRS is secure as long as one participant in the ceremony successfully conceals their secret.

4/16/2023
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After many years of work, full Proof of Stake is finally on our doorstep. While many have talked about the significance of the moment, we think it's best to hear directly from the builders behind it. Merge Manual is a collection of perspectives from 60+ core Ethereum contributors, including client developers, researchers and coordinators from 18 different teams. Note that this is a subset of the whole - not every contributor submitted a response. Responses were collected in August and September 2022 in the weeks leading up to the Merge itself; the anticipation is apparent in the submissions! We hope you enjoy these snapshots of sentiment leading into the biggest Ethereum event since the Genesis block in 2015. Thank you for reading and being part of the Ethereum story. We're releasing this in advance of New Home of the Heart, an NFT exhibition and sale which celebrates the Merge and its builders. Proceeds are split between the artists and the Protocol Guild, a collective of 119 core Ethereum contributors. We hope you will join us for the opening of the exhibition on Sept 12. → Sign up to be notified of the exhibition opening or follow the organizers: SW & JPG. Merge Manual builds on Stateful Works' goal of creating cultural artifacts for the Ethereum community through projects like the Beacon Book and 1559 NFT Collection.

9/8/2022
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