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title: General Grant Proposal@ PSE

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# General Grant Proposal

* **Project:** UniRep protocol, core improvment & iterations

## Project Overview :page_facing_up: 

### Overview

This proposal is for onboarding an additional contributor to UniRep protocol team. The grantee will be working as part time base and focus on improving, iterating & assisting to release the protocol official version 2 release and moving forward.

### Project Details 
Currently, the protocol has completed the audit on beta-v3, we would like to continue improving the performence, functionality and other features that enable more developers to build on UniRep easily.

The grantee will be taking issues from our github organization: https://github.com/Unirep
The main responsiblity will be focus on protocol side, while being flexible supporting on multiple projects within the UniRep team.

## Team :busts_in_silhouette:

### Grantee's information
* Namge: Joy Wang
* Email: wangqiaoyi.joy@gmail.com
* Telegram handle:  https://t.me/joyqvq
* website: https://joywang.co/
* Github profile: https://github.com/joyqvq

### Grantee's experience
Joy is currently an applied cryptography engineer at Mysten Labs. She works on implementing zero knowlege primitives, signature schemes and advanced cryptographic innovations and researches. Previously, she led the crypto wallet and custody team at Robinhood and built banking product at Cash App. 



## Development Roadmap :nut_and_bolt: 

As UniRep become much more stable and has passed the audit, UniRep team are looking forward enhance the current performence while continue building gadets for developers to build.

### Overview
* **Total Estimated Duration:** 3 months
* **Full-time equivalent (FTE):**
* **Total Costs:** Amount of Payment for the whole project.

### Milestone 1 
* **Estimated Duration:** Aug 14th - September 11th, 4 weeks
* **FTE:** 0.25
* **Costs:** $62.5/hour * 10 hour = $625/week, $2500/4 weeks
* **Estimated delivery date**: September 11th, 2023

- Grantee will focus on current ongoing tasks that will be assign by Vivian Jeng.
- Grantee will support team with 10 work hours per week.
- Committed codes and actions on GitHub


### Milestone 2
* **Estimated Duration:** 1 month
* **FTE:** 0.25
* **Costs:** $62.5/hour * 10 hour = $625/weeks, $2500/4 weeks
* **Estimated delivery date**: October 9th, 2023

- same as above.


### Milestone 3
* **Estimated Duration:** 1 month
* **FTE:** 0.25
* **Costs:** $62.5/hour * 10 hour = $625/week, $2500/4 weeks
* **Estimated delivery date**: Nov 6th, 2023

- same as above.

### Milestone 4
* **Estimated Duration:** 1 month
* **FTE:** 0.25
* **Costs:** $62.5/hour * 10 hour = $625/week, $2500/4 weeks
* **Estimated delivery date**: Dec 5th, 2023

Implement generics trait for rstark library. Switch to stack based math library by implementing the trait. Make benchmarks and various improvements to rstark proving and verifying performance. Issue: https://github.com/vimwitch/rstark/issues/3

### Milestone 5
* **Estimated Duration:** 1 month
* **FTE:** 0.25
* **Costs:** $62.5/hour * 10 hour = $625/week, $2500/4 weeks
* **Estimated delivery date**: Jan 12th, 2023

Implement GPU accelerated math operations. Use GPU for modular multiplication and addition implementation when doing polynomial evaluation.
## Additional Information :heavy_plus_sign: 
n/a