EF ZK Workshop

​🌟 About the Workshop

​Join us for a two-day hands-on ZK workshop hosted by the ZK Education Team (ZKET) at the Ethereum Foundation! This workshop is designed for developers and students who are new to Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs) but have a technical background.

​By the end of this event, participants will have a strong foundational understanding of ZKPs, experience with ZK tooling, and insights into career opportunities in cryptography and blockchain.

​📖 What You’ll Learn

​👀 Introduction to Zero-Knowledge (ZK) – Why ZK matters, real-world use cases, and how it all works
🔢 Cryptographic Building Blocks – Commitments, signatures, circuits, and ZK-friendly math
💻 Hands-On Coding with Circom – Build and prove your first circuits using Groth16
🧠 Math Behind the Magic – Intuitively understand how ZKPs work under the hood
🧰 ZK Stack & Tooling – Explore modern tools like zkVMs, PLONK, GKR, and more
🎯 Career & Community – Resume reviews, project demos, and how to keep learning ZK

​This will be a highly interactive, hands-on workshop with mentors from the Ethereum Foundation and the global ZK community.

​👥 Who Should Join?

​✅ STEM students interested in cryptography and privacy technologies
✅ Early-career developers looking to explore ZK and blockchain
✅ Developers already in web3 who want to expand into ZK

​No prior ZK experience is required, but familiarity with basic programming (JavaScript, Rust, or Solidity) will be helpful.

​🧑‍🏫 Meet the Mentors

​Our mentors include engineers, researchers, and industry experts from the Ethereum Foundation and local ZK communities. They’ll guide you through the workshop, answer questions, and provide career mentorship.

​🔹 Confirmed mentors include:

• ​Oskar – ZK researcher & developer

• ​Kimi – ZK engineer (zkEVM to zkVM)

• ​More mentors to be announced!