---
title: ACZ Research Destination
tags:
  - "2024q4"
  - "acz"
  - "ift"
draft: false
description: "Providing ACZ research informative materials for the ecosystem"

---

`vac:acz:ift:2024q4-acz-research-destination`

Providing ACZ research informative materials for the ecosystem
## Description

ACZ team shares the informative materials such as blog, forum, presentations for the ecosystem that
can initialize discussions publicly.  

By utilizing the acz-research-destination commitment, 
we will reinforce the Conduit of Expertise narrative by:
* Increase the visibility of the IFT by sharing the ACZ research destinations.

We will also strengthen the Premier Research Destination narrative by: 
* Sharing the informative materials of ACZ research outputs to enlighten community.

## Task List

### ZK Think Tank 

* fully qualified name: `vac:acz:ift:2024q4-acz-research-destination:zk-think-tank`
* owner: Marvin
* status: done
* start-date: 2024/10/07
* end-date: 2024/12/02

#### Description 

Provide comprehensive documentation of zero-knowledge techniques used and developed by IFT teams 
that is accessible and user-friendly to all IFT teams and the broader community. 
This task is important to diffuse the ZK how-know across the IFT. 

#### Deliverables 

* A notions page to maintain current (and accurate) information on each of IFT's usage of ZK techniques.
  * [ZK Think Tank Notion Page](https://www.notion.so/ZK-Think-Tank-1348f96fb65c808eb6f1e27f74ab55fc)
* A notions page that organizes ZK notes in an accessible manner for IFT CCs 
to get a clear overview or deep dive depending on their needs.
* Write 101-blog on ZK techniques to [vac-dev](https://vac.dev/rlog/).
  * Fiat-Shamir blog post: https://vac.dev/rlog/vac101-fiat-shamir/
  * Merkle trees blog post: https://vac.dev/rlog/climbing-merkle-trees/