Ahhhh.... Ethereum will always be infected with the humour of the nerds, which is a nice relief from the endless Game of Throne references. Anyway, the KZG Summoning ceremony is a "trusted setup" to launch the KZG commits. KZG commits is the cryptographic protocol that is the infrastructure behind proto-danksharding (EIP-4844) for Ethereum...

... and proto-danksharding is the offloading of data when it doesn't need to reside on the blockchain for all eternity. Instead, the data is written to a different layer (not mainnet). Needless to say, that results in lower gas fees due to the reduced amount of total gas needed for smart contracts and it allows L2s to post their proofs to this ephemeral chain instead of needing to constantly post it to mainnet.... again, saving gas on transactions and scaling Ethereum due to lower demand on blockspace.

Anyway, when setting up a new cryptographic scheme, you need to have a trusted setup phase. And the Ethereum developers have settled on this public KZG Summoning ceremony to allow everyone to take part... partly altruism, but more importantly, security. The security lies in the fact that only one participant needs to destroy or lose their contribution to the ceremony for it to be secure! And for it to be NOT secure, requires EVERYONE to reveal their input and collude on decrypting the final secret.

Currently, there are over 12,000 unique participants... and so it is most likely a secure setup.... barring any unforseen problems with the cryptography or the software involved. So, to combat against that, they have allowed for a number of different software combinations to take part to minimise that possibility. This really is the future... true security and effective cryptography through mathematics that favours the masses.

To take part in this all-important step for the Ethereum ecosystem, you need a wallet/address that has had at least 3 transactions. Then you will sign two Ethereum messages (part of the ceremony contribution), waggles you mouse around a bit (a bit of additional entropy), and then include a message as well (a bit of nostalgic history, something personally important, or just a faceroll on the keyboard). All these things combine to contribute to your personal part in building that final secret that is vital for the cryptographic scheme.

...well, not quite. That puts you in the queue to be included into the ceremony. Roughly 45 participants are chosen each hour from the waiting pool... and the rough waiting time is around a day or so. So, make sure that you leave that tab open (you can lock your wallet after signing the messages) and make sure that you computer isn't going to automatically sleep or shutdown.

So far, I have had two contributions (from two unique addresses) accepted... and I'm hoping to have more accepted before the contribution window closes. The window is about 50 days still... welcome to the future!

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