# Announcing the KZG Ceremony

DevFeed: [Announcing the KZG Ceremony](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/announcing-the-kzg-ceremony-17047.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2023/01/16/announcing-kzg-ceremony>)

Author: EF Protocol Support

Published: 2022-01-16T00:00:00Z

Content type: release

Language: en

Sources: [Ethereum Foundation Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/ethereum-foundation-blog.md>)

Topics: [Ethereum](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ethereum.md>), [Protocol (disambiguation)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/protocol.md>), [Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/development.md>), [Network](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/network.md>)

Tags: [collective](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/collective.md>), [community](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/community.md>), [contribution](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/contribution.md>), [cryptographic](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cryptographic.md>), [development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/development.md>), [ethereum](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ethereum.md>), [network](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/network.md>), [protocol](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/protocol.md>), [research-development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/research-development.md>), [scale](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scale.md>), [upgrade](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/upgrade.md>)

## AI overview

Ethereum announces the KZG Ceremony, a coordinated multi-party trusted setup intended to provide the cryptographic foundation for scaling efforts such as EIP-4844, also known as proto-danksharding. Participants contribute secrets to produce a structured reference string for KZG Commitments, with security depending on at least one participant keeping their secret concealed.

## Source excerpt

High fees have made life difficult for travelers through these Dark Forests. The Pools of Mem once clouded, now clarified by the filter of 1559, reveal that they are not deep enough to sustain. Legends tell of a society flourishing under the abundance brought about by DankShard, of giant...