Date: January 27, 2022

Participants: Anthony, Sam, Lukasz, Nick

Quick Summary: Take the time to talk about different aspects of our ecosystem and answer any questions people might have.

Notes:

Key Points:

• Ambassador Program details to be released on February 1
• Aleo will be at ETH Denver from Feb. 16th to Feb. 21st
• Current pause on Aleo community name
• Internal mining pools are still a work in progress, great strides have been made
• Specific details on the pros and cons of testnet (found below)

Notes:

• 1500 miners have joined and actually started to find blocks on the testnet
• create a mining pool the way we want it to and an open GPU prover, a competitive one that everyone has access to, general smart contracts onto the main chain
• the real litmus test on the main chain is something like poker
  • playing texas holdem using Aleo credits means we are in a healthy state
• snarkVM has been getting nice performance improvements that should be enhancing GPU and CPU implementation
• 8M Aleo credits awarded to winners
• help advance zero knowledge cryptography in a wide range of applications
  • partnering with other projects in the space
• Aleo is a sponsor at ETH Denver (we will be there from Feb 16-21)
  • that means we get to put out a bounty for a hackathon
  • two different bounties that we want to put out
    • 1.) account based bounty & 2.) analytics tools per note
    • can participate both virtually and in-person
  • we will be distributing a physical crypto coin (Aleo Coin) that we are minting
    • unique identifier, given out to community members who are active
    • part of the grand prize for the bounty program at ETH Denver