ECOSYSTEM FUNDING INTELLIGENCE PHASE 01 · MVP
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CFP-005 / PUBLIC PROPOSAL

Research post-quantum ZKP options for BCH applications

Commission open, reproducible research on post-quantum zero-knowledge options relevant to BCH applications without making a protocol recommendation.

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ORIGINAL PROPOSAL

Earlier submission format; proposed team and deliverables remain provisional until research.

What

Survey credible constructions, define BCH application constraints, reproduce selected benchmarks, and publish a feasibility report covering security assumptions, proof sizes, verification costs, implementation maturity, and unresolved risks.

Suggested team

An independent applied-cryptography researcher or team with verifiable zero-knowledge and post-quantum work. Reviewers and conflicts will be disclosed before a funding decision.

Why BCH needs it

BCH builders need a technically grounded map of the trade-offs before spending engineering time or treating speculative cryptographic options as deployable.

MILESTONES

Provisional delivery items

01

Publish literature and constraints review

planned

Survey candidate constructions and define security, performance, and integration constraints relevant to BCH applications.

Done when
A cited review and explicit evaluation matrix are public.
Target
2026-12-31
Payment
Terms pending research
02

Release reproducible experiments

planned

Implement or reproduce representative benchmarks for the strongest candidate approaches.

Done when
Code, parameters, hardware notes, and repeatable benchmark results are openly published.
Target
2027-02-28
Payment
Terms pending research
03

Publish feasibility report and limitations

planned

Compare candidates, document unresolved risks, and identify application-level experiments worth considering next.

Done when
The independently reviewed report is public and makes no protocol recommendation.
Target
2027-03-31
Payment
Terms pending research
PAYMENT SCHEDULE

Payment terms and recorded transfers

Milestone acceptance tracks delivery. Payments follow the agreed release conditions; a checkpoint can have no separate payment.

Payment amounts and release conditions will be agreed during research.

CORE TEAM REVIEW

Alignment is the initial assessment. Review is complete only after the research stage is finished. Saving research findings does not itself approve funding.

Alignment pending

Research notes have not been published.

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