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Ingonyama Grants Program 2.0

Exactly one year ago, we launched our first-ever grants program, offering $100,000 to support research in high-speed cryptography using ICICLE. Today, we’re excited to announce our second grants program — another $100,000 dedicated to researchers. Details below!

ICICLE Ecosystem Grant

Ingonyama invites researchers and practitioners to collaborate in advancing high-speed cryptography acceleration. We are allocating $100,000 for grants to support this initiative.

Bounties & Grants

Eligibility for grants includes:

  • Students: Utilize ICICLE in your research.
  • Performance Improvement: Enhance the performance of accelerated primitives in ICICLE.
  • Protocol Porting: Migrate existing cryptography protocols to ICICLE.
  • New Primitives: Contribute new primitives to ICICLE.
  • Benchmarking: Compare ZK and other cryptography benchmarks against ICICLE.

We’re also challenging researchers to reimplement algorithms from existing papers using ICICLE — and beat the original benchmarks. The bigger the performance gain, the bigger the grant.

How to Apply

Applying is simple:

  1. Fill out the form: Start by sharing your idea, just a quick description, e.g., “I want to implement Whir in ICICLE” (note: this one’s already taken by Giacomo).
  2. Collaborate: We’ll work with you to define clear performance milestones. Expect a bit of back-and-forth to align on goals.
  3. Approval: Once we're aligned, we’ll greenlight the project.
  4. Get started: Begin your work with our support and take it to the finish line!

Get in Touch

If you have any questions, email us at grants@ingonyama.com and we will get back to you.