Bounties

For the Verifiable Delay Function (VDF) project, the RSA Low Order and Adaptive Root assumptions have come into spotlight as they are required for the two VDF proof construction. Several bounties are available for proving or disproving the assumptions.

Posted By: Ethereum Foundation

Total Bounty: $28,000 USD and 28 ETH

We are interested in how resistant the Legendre pseudo-random function is to key recovery attacks, as well as any other interesting results on the Legendre PRF.

Posted By: Ethereum Foundation

Total Bounty: $29,000 USD and 24 ETH

The Ethereum Foundation and Protocol Labs are offering rewards for finding collisions in MiMCSponge, a sponge construction instantiated with MiMC-Feistel over a prime field, targeting 128-bit and 80-bit security, on one of two fields described below.

Posted By: Ethereum Foundation and Protocol Labs

Total Bounty: $20,000 USD per challenge

Help us understand the security of new hash functions better.

Posted By: Ethereum Foundation

Total Bounty: $200,000 USD