ZKP Hackathon: Welcome & Overview Session

This podcast introduces the ZKP Web3 Hackathon hosted by Berkeley Center for Responsible Decentralized Intelligence, aiming to expand the ZKP community and technology. The hackathon features several tracks, including application, ZK circuits, ZKBridge, and ZK benchmark, with over $200,000 in prizes, including monetary awards and scholarships to the ZKP Summer Cluster at UC Berkeley's Simons Institute. Participants can engage in dedicated or self-selected tasks, evaluated on implementation correctness, efficiency, documentation quality, and submission time. The event includes presentations from industry partners and sponsors, virtual office hours, and Discord discussions, culminating in in-person and online demos, winner announcements, and a ZKP workshop. The podcast also details the motivation and categories within each track, emphasizing the goal of making ZKP technology accessible to all developers and fostering community collaboration to build foundational technologies for multi-chain interoperability.