Aleo FireSide Newspaper #14 (English)

The publication was prepared by: Gena | GG, rykovka, RoyHansen, AnnaB, Rufat and Sula

Design: Tarantino and Dinaaaaa666

Dear readers of the Aleo Fireside Newspaper, welcome to the fourteenth edition of our weekly newspaper! We are pleased to inform you that this time we have gathered even more interesting and updated information about the Aleo project. You can expect notes from the Aleo team members, news compiliation, a brief overview of the Community Call, and much more. We are confident that you will enjoy our new edition, and you will find what interests you most.

So, without further ado, let’s begin reading!

On May 30th, the Aleo team announced the launch of the Bug Bounty program, aimed at incentivizing hackers and security developers who help identify and report vulnerabilities in the main Aleo protocol that could significantly impact the Aleo network.

The initial reward fund for the program is $500,000, and the Aleo team aims to focus on bugs related to its core protocol, particularly the snarkOS and snarkVM repositories on Github.

The Bug Bounty program will have various severity levels of bugs and a range of rewards from $500 to $25,000 and more. The Aleo team reserves the right to grant additional bonuses for exceptional reports regardless of the severity of the bug.

Bug reports will be reviewed by HackerOne and Aleo developers, and participants will need to pass KYC (Know Your Customer) verification to receive rewards. Regardless of whether your application is accepted or not, you will receive feedback.

Additional information about the program can be found on the official Aleo company blog through this link.

This is an important step for Aleo in ensuring the security of its protocol and planning for the future.

On May 31st an ecosystem update was released:

- SnarkOS, SnarkVM, and the Leo programming language have been updated.

- Aleo team invites you to fill out a form for those who are willing to organize monthly IRL community meetups

- Ambassador Program:

-Application form for participation in the 5th round of the Ambassador Program is closed.

-We have contacted our KYC provider to resolve the issue of the verification process for selected ambassadors.

-Aleo Deploy Incentive Program has been launched

If you have any questions, please ask them in the 🔬┃testnet3-support channel or fill out the form. Details can be found in the blog.

-Aleo Tooling & Infrastructure Grants Program has been launched. Read more details in the blog.

-Nominate Alex Pruden to speak at #Mainnet2023 on the topic of AI and accountability. Vote via link.

-The “Privacy Playlist” Music Contest has been launched. Contest details can be found here.

On Wednesday, May 31st, the weekly Aleo community call took place. There was a special quest — Anthony DiPrinzio, Aleo Director of Development, invited to this call. He shared some details about the Bug Bounty program and informed the community that a vulnerability was discovered over the weekend, which is actually good stuff because it was identified and fixed before the Mainnet release. Bug bounty is a reward program for hackers and developers who find bugs and vulnerabilities in the project. Currently, you can submit bug reports through the HackerOne platform. The Bug Bounty program will have various severity levels of bugs, and the rewards for bug hunting will range from $500 to $25,000 and higher. To determine the severity of a bug, please follow the provided link. When submitting reports, please follow the instructions so that the team can

efficiently review them. If a bug is submitted multiple times, only the first person who submits it will receive the reward. You can find the full announcement about the program on the official blog.

Regarding the community, during the meeting, the Head of Community (Vivien Ford) mentioned that none of the ambassadors have been able to pass the KYC process at the moment. Therefore, please don’t worry and wait for official announcements.

We are thrilled to introduce our guest today — Saimon#5115.

Saimon is one of the top ambassadors and community members of Aleo. He has made significant

contributions to the development of the community through the English Speaking Club (ESC) meetings, which he organizes in collaboration with his team of active ambassadors.

Saimon, thank you for taking the time. We are delighted to have such a guest.

I find you to be an active and determined person who is not afraid of challenges but simply takes action. It would be really interesting to hear the story of your journey in Aleo and where it all began?

- Hi Roy! Thank you for inviting me to this interview! You have an awesome team and newspaper, and you make our community even brighter and more unique through your work!

- I learned about Aleo through one of the blogger’s review in February 2022, and I immediately joined the Aleo community. I didn’t make it through the first selection of ambassadors, and I realized that I needed to give my all here, and that’s exactly what I did. Before the second selection, I was automatically promoted to Apprentice, which сaused me a storm of emotions. Overall, I didn’t slow down, and in the end, I managed to get promoted to Maestro. Thanks to Aleo, I acquired many new skills and knowledge about the crypto world, and I also met many wonderful people here.

English Speaking Club, or ESC. I’m sure now everyone in the community knows what it is and happily attends the meetings. But what was it like in the beginning? How did you manage to organize it, and what difficulties did you face in the process?

- In the beginning, my English was terrible, and I had the desire to improve it. I happened to catch myself thinking that it would be great to organize an ESC in Aleo and help myself and other people improve their English. Afterward, together with Pulya, I organized the first ESC meeting. The difficulties were that it was my first experience like this, and I was very nervous for a thousand different reasons, but everything went relatively well. Many people attended, and everyone had a very positive experience. It was a motivation to move forward!

During your meetings interesting things always happen. You conduct various quizzes, discuss

relevant and useful topics, and even Viv drops by to join the fun!

Please tell us how the script for the ESC meetings is developed and who comes up with it? How is your team structured?

- Yes, thanks to the new members of the ESC team, we were able to add new ideas and contests to our club. I am very happy to be surrounded by such wonderful people as Sula, Totoro, and Vi; they are really cool! We brainstorm together to come up with the theme for the next meeting. Totoro prepares quizzes and games, and I, along with the other team members, handle the rest of the work (banners, promotion, material preparation for the meeting, etc.).

- And yes, Viv visited our ESC once; it was incredible!

Since we’re talking about the team, I want to emphasize that you are professionals in your field and you are simply amazing for not giving up on your initiative and continuing to gather and hold meetings. It’s not as easy as it may seem at first glance. So, how do you stay motivated and keep working, especially when you are working together with a team?

- It seems that the people in our community benefited from our meetings and we always have a lot of fun! The positive energy we receive from each meeting motivates us to continue doing what we do!

A little personal question, if you don’t mind, regarding pronunciation. For example, mine. I simply speak English TERRIBLY. Because of that, I was very hesitant to communicate by voice on ESC. But at the same time, you, even with not the most perfect pronunciation, behave much more confidently and don’t hesitate about it, unlike me. How do you achieve that? Do you just do it or is there something else?

- You’re right, my friend, my pronunciation is far from perfect, but that’s why ESC was created, to become better together! I believe the most important thing is to take the first step and start speaking, then it becomes much easier. We’ve noticed that when ESC starts, everyone is a bit tense, but as we start communicating and joking, everyone gradually relaxes and joins in.

29.05
PENGUIN#9089
Hello everybody, I work with the guide from testnet pride and I have problem on 6th step

budovskiy#4624
This is not an official guide. Use official resources.

It’s because snarkVM got updated to 0.11.3 while snarkOS is still tied to 0.11.2 (i.e. a dependency mismatch)

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27.05
hgedia#8841
where is this program deployed to? and where are the records/state saved ? is this local or is there an in-mem node?

budovskiy#4624
It depends on where you’ve deployed the program — locally or on the Testnet 3 network. Record contains information that specifies the record owner, its stored value, and its application state.

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25.05
voloshka#2957
Is there some api to execute programs’ functions? Or the only way for now is snarkos?

budovskiy#4624
No, there is no such possibility.

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25.05
pptsword#5140
when is the season 2?

fronk#2724
we’re working on our roadmap right now, but stay tuned, we’ll be making announcments thanks for your interest but also, we don’t necessarily have to wait for the seasons either, we’re more than happy to continue building conversations here

27.05

nodg#4210

For each application (for the Ambassador program) there is a specific reason(s) why it was chosen or not, it’s simply not possible to give feedback to 1000+ people and we don’t want to give it to just a few.

The team is committed to developing a strong, healthy community.