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From: yuxizama <157474013+yuxizama@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2024 10:36:48 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] close season 6

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   <a href="https://discord.fhe.org"><img src="https://img.shields.io/discord/901152454077452399?color=7289da&style=flat-square&label=Discord&logo=discord&logoColor=white"></a>
   <a href="https://zama.ai/community"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/Community-Support-%23ffd208?style=flat-square"></a>
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+<b>Season 6 of the Zama Bounty Program is now over. <br/>We will announce the winners and new bounties for season 7 soon!</b>
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 ## 🎉 Welcome to the Zama Bounty Program 
 
 [Zama](https://github.com/zama-ai) is a cryptography company working on Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) and other tools that make protecting privacy easy. We started this <em>experimental</em> bounty program to encourage developers from the community to collaborate with us in advancing the FHE space!
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 > All our benchmarks are run on Amazon EC2 HPC7A instances.
   
 ### Important dates
-- **Season 6 starting date**: June, 5th 2024
-- **Submission deadline** : September, 8th 2024 (23:59, Anywhere On Earth)
+**Season 6 is now over**: We will announce the winners and their solutions in the coming days. Stay tuned for the upcoming Season 7!
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 ## 👉 Register