Prize 2: Beat the Best (E2E Acceleration)
Prize 2 sought to optimize for consumer-grade devices running MSMs in a browser environment. ZPrize 2022 focused strictly on WASM, but this year, the prize was expanded to allow competitors to use different web-based technologies including Web Workers, SIMD instructions in WASM, and WebGPU to provide the competitors with more tools to account for a variety of different size MSM problems.
Submissions for this category were judged based on correctness and performance, using Demox Lab’s WebGPU MSM implementation as a baseline. In addition, competitors could choose to submit an implementation for either a BLS 12-377 curve (Prize 2A) or the Twisted Edwards curve variant (Prize 2B). MSM over BLS 12-377 generally improves proof generation times, while the Twisted Edwards improvements affect other UX aspects, such as scanning for unspent transactions on blockchains such as Aleo.
The winners for Prize 2 are:
2A
| Position | Team Name | Score | Improvement | Repository |
| 1 | Yrrid Software Snarkify_ZKP | 940 ms | 150x | — |
| Special mention | Gregor Mitscha-Baude | 2.26 sec | 30x | — |
2B