ZK HACK mini - Puzzle M2 Introduction

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what do we have ah yes oh this is very good we're always waiting to see how kobe arrives hello i have eight arms today very nice uh kobe arrives in order to share with us some sort of sense coming up at the next puzzle um this i think i got this right this is the upcoming puzzle it's called can you turn up the heat and the subtitle is how do you like your eggs the prize is sponsored noma kobe can you tell a bit about

yes i definitely can so i think unless we made a mistake it's going to be the hardest puzzle in the history of zika hack [Music] and without revealing too many details your goal is going to be to exploit some properties or parameters that have been chosen for a stark group in order to create a proof for a wrong statement for the fibonacci sequence like the result of it after 32 steps um and yeah that's what you're going to

encounter nice do you want to share with everyone some of the sort of the structure around the week and do that for anyone who's trying for the first time yes for sure so um the way it works is that we will share the code repository for the puzzle it will contain what you need to do to pass the check like to provide the solution and whenever you find a solution you use the form to submit it you either share a repository privately with me you do not fork the repository because then it's public or you submit

the [Music] gist to that you will share with us in the form um and these solutions can be submitted up until monday midnight utc um and additionally we sorry we got a very late one this time around didn't we yeah we got one like one hour before the event so yeah and i think like the last thing that we we can share is that there's also there are also prizes for the best write-up to for someone that explains what went wrong like why was this

construction exploitable and um yeah i guess like we'll we'll share a bit more you'll see the current write-up for the previous puzzle and you'll see that even they found an additional exploit beyond the one that we created which was really interesting so i highly suggest that you read this last write-up all right um i think so actually kobe just this image i mean there's a shell opening behind you like i i need to you're doing

really i feel like it's one of the highlights of every week is what does kobe show up as it's good all right i'm going to keep going with a little look towards next week so next week it's a very different format we're going to be doing uh z hack mini number three is going to be the kind of ending of zk hack mini we're going to give out the prizes we're going to showcase like where people like landed on the leaderboard overall um we're also going to do something different we're going to do it all kobe taruna and pratush we're going to probably use the stage function in hop in where you get to bring up like questions onto the screen

and i'm developing it right now i'll give you more detail have it closer to the date but you can already you should already be able to sign up for zk hack three i don't know if someone can maybe share that um and it would be great for you to sign up on hopfin and only about and now after this there's something called the which i think some of you are familiar with but there's a zk jobs fair as well as the z pack after party and so this is held on gather it's this interactive space and they're going to be some hiring teams but it's also a party so yeah come check it out uh and to do that you sign up to the discord or you sign up sorry to hop in for next week and during all the details uh closer to that time

yes i want to just highlight once again zkv presents privacy and cosmos we're going to share all these links in just a second here zkv presents privacy and cosmos as well as this set miss the name for this with but that is coming so both of them are in amsterdam the privacy in cosmos is april 15th the zk summit april 21st and i do want to again highlight this bitcoin tech side round which is tomorrow if you have a product you want funding for submit your grant as soon as you can it takes a few days to actually go through the kind of white listing process so it's good if you do it today or tomorrow right as the round starts and i think that brings us to the

number two thank you everyone for coming out and i hope to see you next week cool