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Today, We will be discussing this week's updates and what was discussed on the community call, which happened today :)
This Week's Updates
➡️The Community call was held today at 20:30 IST @ Discord.
➡️ The 7th round of the ambassador program is closed, and the team is currently reviewing the applications, which can take up to 2-3 Weeks to complete.
➡️Interview with Alex Pruden, the CEO of Aleo is live on X
➡️ A virtual Leo BootCamp will be held in a collab with zkCamp
[This workshop is for mature devs, as it consists of a code challenge for whitelisting, conducted through hackerrank]
➡️Aleo KL zkMeetup will be held in Kuala Lampur Today.
➡️Aleo zkHouse is live in Messari mainnet.
➡️Aleo zkHouse will be live at zksummit London, tomorrow.
➡️Aleo Hanoi zkMeetup will held on the 23rd of September.
➡️Aleo Tokyo zkMeetup will held on the 25th of September in Shibuya City.
➡️Aleo Nigeria zkMeetup will held on the 29th of September in Akwa Ibom.
Summary from the Community Call
➡️Today's Hosts were Nodari and Anthony.
➡️Time and Place: 20:30 IST @ Discord Stage.
➡️Today, the discussion was on the Developer Grants Program.
Here's what They had to say.
🟦The aim of this initiative is to incentivize developers to develop more useful dApps on the Aleo blockchain, as the mainnet is rapidly approaching.
🟦There are 3 categories in this initiative.
Ignition Grant
Launch Grant
BluePrint Grant
🟦Ignition Grant
➡️For small-sized applications
➡️The dApp is required to be open-sourced.
➡️The prize is 3K USD [Currently Sent as Fiat]
➡️Once applied, shortlisted applicants will be approached by the Aleo team within 5 Business days, and the developer team will get 1 month to build the program.
🟦Launch Grant
➡️For Fully-fledged projects which consist of multiple milestones.
➡️The Prize on average is about 10K USD - 50K USD.
➡️Applicants are required to fill up a template provided by the Aleo Team.
➡️The shortlisted applicants will be contacted by the Aleo team with a follow-up call.
➡️Aleo Credits can be added as rewards👀
🟦Blueprint Grant
➡️For large-scale projects that aim to build on top of Aleo.
➡️The Aleo team will consider the following of the applicants.
Quality of the Project Team.
Their Experience [ Experience in ZK and Privacy is preferred, but is not compulsory, according to Anthony]
The overall proposal and its use cases.
🟦The Aleo Team is currently interested in seeing projects with the following use cases.
➡️Gaming
➡️Identity and Authentication Frameworks.
➡️DeFi based on ZK.
➡️ZK Machine Learning
➡️Voting and Governance Tools
🟦Deploy Incentives applicants are also welcome to participate in the grants program.
🟦Different projects are also welcome to apply towards different-tier grants as well.
Update on the Deploy Incentives Program
🟦Developers who couldn't make it to the top 10 might be still rewarded.
🟦Everyone who qualified will receive their score based on voting
[This info wouldn't be shared with the public]
That's all for today!
Here I wrap up for now, and I'll see ya in the next episode🫡
Until then, feel the beat of ZK with Aleo✨