Hey everyone, thank you so much for joining us. This is Madeline. We'll be getting started in just a moment.
Hello, testing. I think we're live. Hey everybody, my name is Will. I'm part of the team here at Mina Foundation. First of all, thanks for everyone taking the time to join and coming meet two awesome builders that we have joining us.
today. We have Alessia and me strunning Alessia. Are you there? Hello. Hi. Hey. Hey. Hey, both. Yep, we got you. So I'll give this a quick introduction quickly and then we want to hear from both of you. I just
wanted to do a quick sound check. But to just give everybody a run through what we're going to talk about today, we've got, yeah, we want to hear lots of what Alicia and me sure up to what they're building, what their experience has been, building ZK apps and what they're
and then we're going to open it up for a Q&A for anybody from the audience to be able to ask them questions about their journey and as we prepare for ZK Ignite cohort 1. So really quickly we're doing this just builder AMA in advance.
So, this is a 12-week program that will guide developers through the basics of building their ZK app. Writing proposals for funding, those proposals will then be
We have a team of community electors who are experts within the ZK app community and experts within the mean of protocol community. Those proposals that then get funding will actually start building their businesses and building teams around
Yeah, getting those decay ups live and off the ground and into real world users hands. And we're really excited because this is the first of many cohorts in which we're really launching the ZK app ecosystem from the ground up. And so for cohort one, we actually have
500,000 USTC and 500,000 MENA tokens that will be eligible for grants and for builders getting started. And we're excited that this is the first of many cohorts. So we're going to be running this program on a multiple month
recurring cycle as ZK apps come to life. So yeah, so but we can get a little bit maybe a more about ZK Ignite and the Q&A section, but now this is about Alessia and about Meeson in both of your journey.
So maybe I'd like to kind of just start by asking each of you to introduce yourself. Maybe tell us a little bit about what you're working on, what your journey has been to date. Buildings, EK apps, and yeah, maybe we'll start with OSIA.
Hey everyone. I'm Alicia and I am a freelance blockchain developer and proud tech content creator. So I love coding and teaching others how to code and especially using latest technology like blockchain and even AI.
And I first encountered, well, I first built with Mina, I should say last year for their builders program. So we're the excited to chat with you guys more about building on Mina and definitely encouraging you to sign off his UK Ignite.
And for me, my name is Mish. I worked at Mina Pre-Lange in 2019. And now I'm working on a startup with my co-founder and we've been working
working together since November. And I'm really passionate about like helping people learn more about zero knowledge proofs and think about the ways that we can use it to build very useful