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StarkWare founder Eli Ben-Sasson explains Starknet settling on both Ethereum and Bitcoin, the need for Bitcoin scaling through OP_CAT, quantum computing threats, and preventing Bitcoin from becoming an exclusive asset only for the wealthy.You're listening to Bitcoin Season 2. Subscribe to the newsletter, trusted by over 7,000 Bitcoiners: https://newsletter.blockspacemedia.comEli Ben-Sasson, co-founder and CEO of StarkWare, joins us to discuss how StarkNet plans to settle on both Ethereum and Bitcoin. We dive into the technical details of zero-knowledge proofs, the importance of OP_CAT for Bitcoin's future, and the fascinating Collider Script approach to covenants. Eli shares his concerns about Bitcoin ossification, explaining why without scaling solutions, Bitcoin risks becoming a "Rolex" - an asset only accessible to the wealthy. We also explore quantum computing threats and potential solutions for securing Bitcoin's future.Subscribe to the newsletter! https://newsletter.blockspacemedia.comNotes:- StarkWare has over 200 team members- OP_CAT is the "greenest" covenant proposal- Quantum threats require ZK-based solutions- Collider Script enables covenants at high cost- Bitcoin fees prevent mass adoption- Bitcoin needs soft forks to avoid ossification00:00 Start01:09 Starkware background04:38 Bringing ZK tech to Bitcoin07:53 What is a "unified" layer 2?09:21 Why use Starknet?11:33 Posting proofs on-chain13:26 OP_CAT16:55 Collider script19:35 Arch20:09 SHA1 collisions?22:43 Brute forcing covenants into Bitcoin24:53 fear of soft fork27:59 Quantum32:16 Possible quantum futures34:26 Why ZK_Starks for Satoshi's coins??38:16 Confiscation vs network protection43:18 Self custody future-

Eli Ben-Sasson, CEO of Starkware, joins The Gwart Show to discuss Ethereum L2s and Bitcoin scaling solutions. We go through rollup controversies, Starkware's airdrop drama, and how we might actually scale protocols through ZK proofs and STARKs. Lastly, we touch on OP_CAT, which the Starkware team has been pushing behind the scenes. Follow our guest on Twitter: @EliBenSasson 00:00 Start 00:44 Guest introduction 01:25 What is Starkware working on? 03:15 Working on BTC vs ETH 06:27 Why did Bitcoin dev stagnate? 08:44 Chain agnostic 11:52 Why will Validity Rollups win? 14:59 What Starkware is doing differently 18:17 Hardware 20:38 ETH's Rollup roadmap 22:13 Optimistic rollups 25:37 ETH Starknet adoption 31:27 Airdrop fumble 39:48 Would you do the airdrop differently? 42:33 Stark token for gas 45:13 Selling Bitcoiners on Stark token? 47:26 Based Rollups won't work 50:01 Base capturing marketshare 54:51 Is OP_CAT required? 57:00 What if no OP_CAT? 58:57 Why should Bitcoiners care?

Starknet is coming to Bitcoin with one of the biggest breakthroughs in Bitcoin scaling: STARK verifiers natively on Bitcoin. In a recent conversation with Eli Ben-Sasson from StarkWare, we got a closer look at how they're working to bring STARK verifiers to Bitcoin, something that hasn't been possible until now. Our discussion was centered around giving the Bitcoin network new capabilities, thanks to the potential reintroduction of OP__CAT, a simple but powerful opcode that will enable advanced computational functions on Bitcoin. Eli talked us through their exploration of integrating Bitcoin with Ethereum, envisioning a future where Starknet can settle transactions across both chains simultaneously. This could open up a new world of possibilities, allowing users to leverage the strengths of both ecosystems while choosing their preferred data availability layer on a transaction basis. Eli also touched on some of the broader implications of these developments. From the shifting political landscape around Bitcoin, with discussions about OP__CAT gaining traction, to the challenges of maintaining security and decentralization as the network grows more complex. We asked Eli about his broader vision of immutability at the base layer of Bitcoin and Ethereum vs. improving better technology. He talked deeply about the challenges ahead, from governance issues to the risk of centralization, as well as his and the entire Starknet community's commitment to building a more open and decentralized future. Eli emphasized that this is a journey that will take years, if not decades, to fully realize. This has been one of, if not the biggest breakthroughs in the ongoing Bitcoin scaling space race. We really enjoyed this conversation as it started off quite technical and ended up philosophical. The Rollup Website: https://therollup.co/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1P6ZeYd.. Podcast: https://therollup.co/category/podcast Follow us on X: https://www.x.com/therollupco Follow Rob on X: https://www.x.com/robbie_rollup Follow Andy on X: https://www.x.com/ayyyeandy Join our TG group: https://t.me/+8ARkR_YZixE5YjBh The Rollup Disclosures: https://therollup.co/the-rollup-discl

Back in 2014, Eli Ben-Sasson co-authored the Zerocash paper, which proposed a ZK SNARK system that creates anonymous Bitcoin payments. Around the same time, he also spoke about the compression benefits of zero-knowledge proofs – a full Bitcoin node can be synced within seconds just by verifying against a valid proof. More recently, he became interested in STARKs and built a company around this cryptographic breakthrough. If SNARKs require a trusted setup, then STARKs are a major leap towards trust minimization. If Bitcoin activates the OP_CAT soft fork, then this ZK rollup scheme also becomes possible to enable great privacy and low-sized transactions.

The Stark token is here! After waiting for almost 6 years we're thrilled to share that one of the earliest and most promising layer 2's has just released official details on their token, STRK. They are provisioning it to users of Starknet, to stakers in the Ethereum ecosystem, open source developers and so many more. A total of 1.3 Million wallets are eligible to receive the $STRK token, are you one of them? Joining us today is Starkware founder and CEO Eli Ben-Sasson, and Starknet CEO Diego Oliva who are here to walk us through all you need to know about the big launch. ✅ Check Eligibility Here: https://provisions.starknet.io/  ------

Eli Ben-Sasson, co-founder and President of StarkWare, discusses his journey into Web3, building blockchain solutions for scalability, and how StarkWare is working on onboarding the next billion users onto the blockchain. StarkWare develops zero-knowledge proof technology that compresses information to address the blockchain's scalability problem. Before founding StarkWare, Eli was in core academia, earning his Ph.D. under Abel Prize winner Avi Wigderson and completing his postdoc from MIT and Harvard. His research focused on probabilistically checkable proofs (PCPs), and during the 2013 Bitcoin conference, he saw how his technology could address many of blockchain's issues. Today, StarkWare boasts three major technologies that significantly advance blockchain technology into the future. But Eli believes one of the biggest challenges will be to ensure that blockchain remains decentralized: “Whenever you have a system of great value, some parties will benefit from it, and they will want to increase their hold on it. The whole point of blockchain and Web3 is about resisting that or finding ways to distribute and broaden the influence of various corners of society on it. I don't know of a good solution today, but it's the biggest long-term challenge." We hope you enjoy Eli's conversation with hosts Kenzi wang, Sachi Kamiya, and Diksha Dutta where he talks in depth about the Stakware story, scaling blockchain with zero knowledge, and his founder journey in Web3.

Eli Ben-Sasson, Co-founder and President of StarkWare, joins this podcast episode to discuss scaling blockchains like Ethereum with ZK proofs and validity rollups. He provides an in-depth look at how StarkWare is using its Cairo language and ZK-VM to enable scalability, privacy, and computational integrity on Ethereum. Topics covered include: The role of Ethereum and validity rollups in the future ZK landscape Surprises and innovations in ZK proof research Pros and cons of ZK-EVMs vs ZK-VMs for blockchain scaling StarkWare's technology for asserting computational integrity On-chain gaming and other applications uniquely enabled by ZK proofs Decentralizing the sequencer and Starknet's roadmap Elliptic curve risks and the need for quantum-resistant proof systems This episode offers key insights on blockchain scaling and the impact ZK proofs will have on Ethereum and Web3 development. It's essential listening for anyone interested in the technical side of Ethereum and ZK proof adoption. Show Notes StarkWare Socials Eli's Twitter Avi's Twitter Tommy's Twitter Follow Delphi Digital Website: ⁠⁠https://members.delphidigital.io/home⁠⁠ Twitter: ⁠⁠https://twitter.com/Delphi_Digital⁠⁠ Youtube: ⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@Delphi_Digital⁠ Disclosures Disclosures: This podcast is strictly informational and educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any tokens or securities or to make any financial decisions. Do not trade or invest in any project, tokens, or securities based upon this podcast episode. The host and members at Delphi Ventures may personally own tokens or art that are mentioned on the podcast. Our current show features paid sponsorships which may be featured at the start, middle, and/or the end of the episode. These sponsorships are for informational purposes only and are not a solicitation to use any product, service or token. Delphi's transparency page can be viewed ⁠⁠here⁠⁠. Keywords Ethereum, ZK Proofs, ZK-STARKs, Zero Knowledge Proofs, Validity Rollups, Starkware, Scalability, Privacy, Cairo, Blockchain Scaling, Ethereum Scaling, ZK-EVMs, ZK-VMs, Computational Integrity, Cryptography, Proof Systems, Ethereum Future, Web3 Scaling, Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Blockchain, Crypto exchange, Digital assets, Decentralization, Crypto regulation, Crypto investing, Web3, Metaverse, NFTs, DeFi, Cryptocurrency adoption, Future of money, Financial freedom

Episode five of Zero Barriers considers the potential use cases and impact of zero-knowledge proofs within Ethereum and the wider cryptocurrency ecosystem. StarkWare business development head Liron Hayman unpacks how their layer-2 technology provides the capacity to scale and bridge the blockchain ecosystem, while Herodotus co-founder Kacper Koziol unpacks how their on-chain accumulator uses storage-proof cryptography to verify data from any point of Ethereum's blockchain without needing a third party. The solution makes use of StarkWare's STARK proofs, the ZK-proof technology co-invented by mathematician Eli Ben-Sasson. The episode is hosted by Gareth Jenkinson from Cointelegraph and Nathan Jeffay from StarkWare.Guest's Twitter: @kacperkozi @HaymanLiron @gazza_jenksCointelegraph's Twitter: @CointelegraphCointelegraph's website: cointelegraph.comThe views, thoughts and opinions expressed in this podcast are its participants' alone and do not necessarily reflect or represent the views and opinions of Cointelegraph. This podcast (and any related content) is for entertainment purposes only and does not constitute financial advice, nor should it be taken as such. Everyone must do their own research and make their own decisions. The podcast's participants may or may not own any of the assets mentioned.[Collaboration]

Episode four of Zero Barriers looks over the history of zero-knowledge proofs with Eli Ben-Sasson, who has been at the forefront of the technology since validity proofs were an abstract theoretical concept to StarkNet's superfast Quantum Leap upgrade. Giza co-founder Cem Dagdelen also explains how StarkWare's Cairo programming language enables AI to be integrated with smart contracts. This episode is hosted by Andrew Fenton from Cointelegraph Magazine and Nathan Jeffay from StarkWare.Guest's Twitter: @EliBenSasson @CemFDagdelenCointelegraph's Twitter: @Cointelegraph Cointelegraph's website: cointelegraph.com The views, thoughts and opinions expressed in this podcast are its participants' alone and do not necessarily reflect or represent the views and opinions of Cointelegraph. This podcast (and any related content) is for entertainment purposes only and does not constitute financial advice, nor should it be taken as such. Everyone must do their own research and make their own decisions. The podcast's participants may or may not own any of the assets mentioned.[Collaboration]

Welcome to Zero Barriers, a special series from the Decentralize with Cointelegraph podcast in collaboration with StarkWare. In the first episode, Uri Kolodny and Eli Ben-Sasson explore the future of Ethereum and zero-knowledge rollups, and explain why they believe in the success of blockchain technology. The episode is co-hosted by Nathan Jeffay of StarkWare.Guest's Twitter: @StarkWareLtd @ukolodny @EliBenSassonCointelegraph's Twitter: @Cointelegraph Cointelegraph's website: cointelegraph.com The views, thoughts and opinions expressed in this podcast are its participants' alone and do not necessarily reflect or represent the views and opinions of Cointelegraph. This podcast (and any related content) is for entertainment purposes only and does not constitute financial advice, nor should it be taken as such. Everyone must do their own research and make their own decisions. The podcast's participants may or may not own any of the assets mentioned.[Collaboration]

Layer 2 zero knowledge roll-ups have initially been used for achieving private transactions on blockchains. However, past simple transfers, interacting with a public smart contract posed a serious challenge. As research and technology evolved, proof construction became much more efficient, enabling zk-powered scalability. There is a variety of pros and cons for each type of proof system, but given the impending rise of qunatum computers, we have witnessed a recent migration from SNARKs to STARKs. While the former relies on trusted setups, zk-STARKs are quantum-resistant.We were joined by Eli Ben-Sasson, co-founder of Starkware, to discuss Starknet's layer 2 architecture, as well as the upcoming update to Cairo 1.0 and how it will impact scalability performances for STARKs.Topics covered in this episode:Shifting from privacy to scalabilityZK roll-up taxonomy and main differences between SNARKs and STARKsWhy scalability is easier to implement than privacy solutionsConstructing proofs efficiently in CairoStarknet's layer 2 architectureBuilt-in account abstractionVolition, data availability and trust assumptionsSequencer decentralisation and crypto regulationsStorage proofsCairo upgrades & TPSCouncil-based vs. DAO governanceFuture developmentsEpisode links:Eli Ben-Sasson on TwitterStarknet on TwitterThis episode is hosted by Friederike Ernst. Show notes and listening options: epicenter.tv/502

Today's episode is sponsored by Origin Dollar: With U.S. inflation still at 5% and multiple CeFi lending platforms bankrupt, DeFi protocols that earn interest on stablecoins are again back on crypto investors' minds. See here for more details: http://realvision.com/origindollar StarkWare is on a space mission to scale Ethereum and boost blockchain gaming in the process. Eli Ben-Sasson, co-founder and president of StarkWare, and Chris Lexmond, founder and CEO of Unstoppable Games, join Ash Bennington to talk about Unstoppable's new Web3 sci-fi game Influence and how it utilizes StarkWare's layer-2 Starknet to fly past Ethereum's limitations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Sometimes, the frontier is at a crypto conference. We're returning from our adventures in Tel Aviv with nine exclusive interviews with some of the key players in the StarkNet space.  Wish you could make it to all the crypto conferences, but don't have the time? Don't worry, Bankless brings the frontier to you. In this episode, we're talking to Uri Kolodny and Eli Ben-Sasson, the co-founders of StarkWare and the fathers of the StarkNet ecosystem. We take a high-level overview of the emerging network state, and what we can expect from this community looking forward. ------

A gathering in Tel Aviv is exploring the way to scale Ethereum through Layer 2 blockchains. Ash Bennington and Marco Olivera are joined live by StarkWare co-founder and president Eli Ben-Sasson and Argent CEO and co-founder Itamar Lesuisse to discuss an announcement that StarkWare will make its STARK Prover software open source. In other news: FTX wants the money Sam Bankman-Fried donated to politicians back, Binance launched a crypto tax tool in France and Canada, South Korea is moving ahead with regulating security tokens, and a mysterious image is popping up on the Twitter accounts of multiple DeFi platforms. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Visa has signaled its long-term bullishness on the potential of the Ethereum blockchain with a paper that explores how to make auto-payments possible for self-custody wallets with StarkNet, a Layer 2 blockchain built on top of Ethereum. Jeremy Varlow and Ash Bennington speak with StarkWare president and co-founder Eli Ben-Sasson about the solution. Plus, Jeremy and Ash discuss Binance.US buying Voyager Digital assets, Reuters looking into Binance's finances, BlockFi hoping to resume some customer withdrawals, and why a Genesis bankruptcy would bring an immediate cost to its parent company Digital Currency Group. We'll also hear from WendyO, host of The O Show, on the power of self-sovereignty and why NFTs can revolutionize music. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

"FTX has been hacked. FTX apps are malware. Delete them. Chat is open. Don't go on FTX site as it might download Trojans." That message from an FTX administrator was pinned on its official Telegram channel by FTX General Counsel Ryne Miller on Friday, mere hours after the crypto exchange filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. CoinDesk initially reported “mysterious outflows exceeding $600 million.” CNN says it was just $473 million, the New York Times $515 million. Early on Monday, Binance founder and CEO Chanpgeng Zhao announced his company "is forming an industry recovery fund, to help projects who are otherwise strong, but in a liquidity crisis." Paul Guerra and co-host Santiago Velez, a co-founder and the R&D division lead at Block Digital, welcome CoinFund president Christopher Perkins – who was at Lehman Brothers when it collapsed in 2008 – and StarkWare co-founder and president Eli Ben-Sasson to assess the still-accumulating fallout from the FTX debacle and to chart potential paths forward.

In this episode of Empire, Jason and Santi are joined by Eli Ben-Sasson and Uri Kolodny to discuss Starkware and the ZK-rollup future. This episode is an absolute masterclass on scaling Ethereum using zero-knowledge proofs and a fractal architecture. We discuss the limits of L1 scaling, ZK vs Optimistic rollups, native L2 programming languages, Layer 3 applications and much more! - - Timestamps: (00:00) Intro (00:32) The Limits of L1 Scaling (05:30) Optimistic vs ZK Rollups (14:40) Why ZK Rollups Lag Optimistic Rollups in TVL (19:10) Advantages of the Cairo Programming Language (26:57) L1 Apps Building for an L2 World (30:01) Circle Ad (31:43) dYdX's Move From Starkware to Cosmos (37:15) MEV, Bitcoin and Cairo 1.0 Adoption (46:23) Layer 3 Scaling (57:38) What Comes Next - - Follow Eli: https://twitter.com/EliBenSasson Follow Uri: https://twitter.com/ukolodny Follow Jason: https://twitter.com/JasonYanowitz Follow Santi: https://twitter.com/santiagoroel Follow Empire: https://twitter.com/theempirepod Subscribe on YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/4fdhhb2j Subscribe on Apple: https://tinyurl.com/mv4frfv7 Subscribe on Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/wbaypprw - - Resources Vitalik's post on fractal scaling https://vitalik.ca/general/2022/09/17/layer_3.html Starkware https://starkware.co/ -- Circle's USDC has quickly become one of the most trusted and widely used stablecoins because of its composability, stability and reserve transparency. As a seamless, trusted digital currency, USDC is a zero-to-one opportunity for the global financial system. Check out their Transparency Hub at circle.com/transparency that outlines everything from links to USDC weekly reserve reports, monthly attestations, and blog posts written by their executive team highlighting how and why USDC was built the way it is. - - Get top market insights and the latest in crypto news. Subscribe to Blockworks Daily Newsletter: https://blockworks.co/newsletter/ - - Disclaimer: Nothing said on Empire is a recommendation to buy or sell securities or tokens. This podcast is for informational purposes only, and any views expressed by anyone on the show are solely our opinions, not financial advice. Santiago, Jason, and our guests may hold positions in the companies, funds, or projects discussed.

This week on The Defiant Podcast we speak with Uri Kolodny and Eli Ben-Sasson, the co-founders of Starkware, one of the leading Layer 2 scaling solutions for Ethereum. Post Merge, Ethereum continues to rely on scaling solutions like Starkware and will continue to do so, according to the network's long-term roadmap. Visa processes 1700 transactions per second, and that number is often quoted as the Holy Grail for a blockchain to become a viable settlement layer for finance. They explain how that can be achieved with the help of Starkware. In the early stages of building Starkware, Uri and Eli had decided not to launch a token. After two years of running Starkware and StarkNet being in alpha, is a STARK token on the horizon? Currently, Starkware is solely used for scaling Ethereum. We talk about Uri and Eli's plans to expand Starkware's services to other Layer 1s. Finally, we discuss the future of scaling solutions, decentralized applications, DeFi, NFTs, and more.

A discussion on the future of layer 2 blockchains in a post-Merge era.Ethereum's long-awaited Merge, the transition from a proof-of-work to a proof-of-stake consensus mechanism, successfully occurred last week.“Opinionated” hosts Ben Schiller and Danny Nelson look to the future on this week's episode with a discussion about the Merge's impact on decentralization, Ethereum adoption, energy consumption and planned network updates with StarkWare co-founders Eli Ben-Sasson and Uri Kolodny. The guests provide insights from their perspective as longtime developers in the Ethereum ecosystem.I.D.E.A.S. 2022 by CoinDesk is the place to see your idea for the next big thing through – meet with leading investors, vet service providers and meet fellow visionaries. Learn more and apply to become a presenter today: coindesk.com/ideasThis show is produced and edited by Eleanor Pahl with additional production support and announcements by Michele Musso. Our theme song is by Elision.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

A discussion on the future of layer 2 blockchains in a post-Merge era.Ethereum's long-awaited Merge, the transition from a proof-of-work to a proof-of-stake consensus mechanism, successfully occurred last week.“Opinionated” hosts Ben Schiller and Danny Nelson look to the future on this week's episode with a discussion about the Merge's impact on decentralization, Ethereum adoption, energy consumption and planned network updates with StarkWare co-founders Eli Ben-Sasson and Uri Kolodny. The guests provide insights from their perspective as longtime developers in the Ethereum ecosystem.I.D.E.A.S. 2022 by CoinDesk is the place to see your idea for the next big thing through – meet with leading investors, vet service providers and meet fellow visionaries. Learn more and apply to become a presenter today: coindesk.com/ideasThis show is produced and edited by Eleanor Pahl with additional production support and announcements by Michele Musso. Our theme song is by Elision.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this episode, host Ria sits down with the co-founders of Starkware, Eli Ben-Sasson and Uri Kolodny to discuss how the team is leveraging STARKs, or validity proofs, to unlock a magnitude increase in scalability. We discuss: The differences between Starkex and Starknet and how the two will converge Enabling functions and applications that cannot be built on monolithic layer 1s Why data availability is important to zk rollups and the trade offs of different approaches Simultaneously solving for computational integrity and inclusive accountability To learn more about Starkware, visit their website.   Intro and outro used with permission: Collage #346 by Daniel Allan

Fresh off the heels of a $50M Series C round last November, StarkWare Industries closed a $100M Series D round on Wednesday, giving the Israeli-based startup a valuation of $8 billion. The fundraise was led by Greenoaks Capital and Coatue, and included Tiger Global amongst others. StarkWare aims to bring efficient, affordable blockchain transactions to the masses through its ZK-rollup technology, which addresses blockchain congestion by compressing multiple transactions into ‘STARK proofs' that are then passed on to the underlying blockchain. In this episode of The Scoop, StarkWare co-founders Eli Ben-Sasson and Uri Kolodny sit down with host Frank Chaparro to discuss what their firm has been building, and how their technology will allow blockchains to scale. According to Kolodny, the trustless computational integrity enabled by StarkWare technology will be very useful to society: “It delivers something that is dearly missing and dearly needed in modern societies and the way they're doing their computation. That is something very simple: it is integrity — the ability to know that something was done the right way, even when you weren't watching.” Despite bearish sentiment across markets, StarkWare's recent fundraise shows VCs are excited about the opportunities unlocked through StarkWare's scaling technology, and are willing to continue providing the developer with capital. StarkWare's two products, StarkEx and StarkNet, both serve as Ethereum scaling solutions, with the former being "scaling as a service," while the latter is permissionless. StarkNet completed its launch earlier this year, allowing any developer to integrate the platform into their application. ... For more visit theblockcrypto.com/podcasts Episode 46 of Season 4 of The Scoop was recorded remotely with The Block's Frank Chaparro and StarkWare Co-Founders Uri Kolodny and Eli Ben-Sasson. Listen below, and subscribe to The Scoop on Apple, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher or wherever you listen to podcasts. Email feedback and revision requests to podcast@theblockcrypto.com. This episode is brought to you by our sponsors Fireblocks, Coinbase Prime & Cross River Fireblocks is an enterprise-grade platform delivering a secure infrastructure for moving, storing, and issuing digital assets. Fireblocks enables exchanges, lending desks, custodians, banks, trading desks, and hedge funds to securely scale digital asset operations through the Fireblocks Network and MPC-based Wallet Infrastructure. Fireblocks serves over 725 financial institutions, has secured the transfer of over $1.5 trillion in digital assets, and has a unique insurance policy that covers assets in storage & transit. For more information, please visit www.fireblocks.com. About Coinbase Prime Coinbase Prime is an integrated solution that provides institutional investors with an advanced trading platform, secure custody, and prime services to manage all their crypto assets in one place. Coinbase Prime fully integrates crypto trading and custody on a single platform, and gives clients the best all-in pricing in their network using their proprietary Smart Order Router and algorithmic execution. For more information, visit www.coinbase.com/prime. About Cross River Cross River is powering today's most innovative crypto companies, with banking and payments solutions you can rely on, including fiat on/off ramp solutions. Whether you are a crypto exchange, NFT marketplace, or wallet, Cross River's API-based, all-in-one platform enables banking as a service, ACH & wire transfers, push-to-card disbursements, real-time payments, and virtual accounts and subledgers. Request your fiat on/off ramp solution now at crossriver.com/crypto.

Heya cryptozens Tonight's Stories: Pudgy Penguin NFT collection sold ECB, Fed, BoE Collaborate on a CBDC Trader Loses Big to April Fool's Joke It's 10 PM Pacific time and the date is April 2nd, 2022. And welcome back to the Crypto Overnighter. I am your host, Nick. The cover model for this podcast is Tex and together we take a nightly look at the crypto, nft and metaverse space and the industry that surrounds it. We bring you new stories on familiar topics. And keep in mind, nothing in this show should ever be considered financial advice.  Greater than 50% of Americans think crypto will be the future of finance. That's according to a poll conducted by StarkWare. 53%, actually. Not surprising that it's more the younger folks that think so. 68% of people between 25 and 34 believe in this concept. This was a poll of 2000 American adults. For adults 34 to 44, 61% feel like crypto is the future. Also, 17% of participants admit they have invested in crypto. 82% of those said they have at least one crypto tracker on their phone. Half say they fiddle or amend their positions daily. Only 14% of the responding investors let their portfolio sit a week at a time without making changes to it. Eli Ben Sasson is Cofounder and President of StarkWare He said quote This poll shows how widespread crypto has become while indicating just how huge it will soon become. We see that young Americans, those who will soon shape the economy, are especially turned into crypto. It's an important insight that they are investing in large numbers, and overwhelmingly convinced crypto will be “the future.”  Email: crypto.overnighter@gmail.com Salem Friends of Felines: https://sfof.org/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/CryptoCorvus1 Torum: https://www.torum.com/u/corvusforge

Most people agree Ethereum is too expensive. Many different tokens and companies have formed around the hype of being the next “Ethereum killer”. However, scaling solutions and the accompanied trade-offs differ from project to project. Solana utilizes the more traditional blockchain model while StarkWare exploits the process of “Zero-Knowledge Proofs” to boost efficiency. Kyle Davies, co-founder of Three Arrows Capital, and Real Vision's Ash Bennington moderate a healthy discussion between Anatoly Yakovenko, CEO and co-founder of Solana, and his competitors, Eli Ben-Sasson, co-founder and president of StarkWare, and Avihu Levy, head of product at StarkWare, to discuss varying solutions to scalability issues fundamental to DeFi. Join them for a technical discussion into the world of DeFi from some of the top experts in the space. Recorded on November 29, 2021.

Today on the Ether we have the Udiverse learns Starknet space hosted by Udiverse Black with Eli Ben-Sasson, Avihu Levy of StarkWare, and more! Recorded on March 7th 2022. Make sure to check out our sponsors, Orbital Command, Luart, Talis, WeFund, and Glow Yield! We appreciate their support.

In this episode, I had the opportunity to sit down with Eli Ben-Sasson of Starkware. If you listened to my last episode with Su where we talked about the scaling approaches of different L1s blockchains compared to Ethereum, I argued that L1 blockchains do not scale and that the only way to create true scalability is to perform all of the computation off-chain and only post the results of that computation on-chain. STARKs are a technology that allows huge amounts of computation to be compressed into succinct proofs that anyone can easily verify. Our goal for this episode was to create the most approachable and comprehensive audio resource on how STARKs work and how they will scale blockchains in the future. We start by explaining inclusive accountability and the true meaning of scalability. Then we dive into STARKs, how proof systems work in general, and where they fit into the context of unbundling blockchains. Next, we use DYDX as a comprehensive case study to learn about the StarkEx system, before diving into StarkNet and its tradeoffs to StarkEx. Finally, we talk about StarkWare's programming language Cairo and how the different costs of proving, verifying, and storage are going to scale into the future. If you're a developer, you should also gain a very good idea of the tradeoffs between building on a regular L1 blockchain, the general-purpose StarkNet blockchain, and a StarkEx application-specific chain. Enjoy! Listen to conversations between Su Zhu, the CEO and CIO of Three Arrows Capital, and Hasu, an experienced crypto researcher and writer. Together with occasional guests, we explore the transformative nature of trust-minimized currency and financial services. SUBSCRIBE to the Podcast Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/uncommon-core/id1517659188?uo=4 Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/3vuV292Him90EjQ5YL4XIw Youtube https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy8yNTc4ZDVhMC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw== Other https://anchor.fm/uncommoncore FOLLOW your hosts Su Zhu https://twitter.com/zhusu Hasu https://twitter.com/hasufl Our homepage and mailing list https://uncommoncore.co/podcast/ Transcripts, if available https://uncommoncore.co/blog/ FOLLOW the guest Eli Ben-Sasson https://twitter.com/EliBenSasson Learn about StarkNet: https://starknet.io/ Learn about Cairo programming language: https://www.cairo-lang.org/ Learn about ZK-STARK math: https://starkware.co/stark/ StarkNet Discord https://discord.gg/uJ9HZTUk2Y

Ethereum is scaling. With a recent $50 million raise at a valuation of $2 billion, StarkWare is pioneering zkRollups across the Ethereum ecosystem. As it powers dYdX, arguably the most liquid market in the world, StarkWare is continuing to move into new territory, with StarkNet imminently deploying on Ethereum Mainnet. The goal of StarkWare is simple: 'bring massive scalability to Ethereum while preserving L1 security, permissionless interactions, and decentralization.' The ecosystem is growing at an astounding rate, so tune in as core members Uri Kolodny and Eli Ben-Sasson walk us through how StarkWare is bringing Super Scaling to Ethereum. ------

The Delphi Podcast Host and GP of Delphi Ventures Tom Shaughnessy and Delphi's Head of Research, Medio Demarco, are joined by Eli Ben-Sasson, and Uri Kolodny, Co-Founders of StarkWare, a suite of validity-based blockchain scaling and privacy solutions. Topics discussed include how StarkWare stacks up against other scaling solutions, achieving low transaction costs, developing a vibrant StarkNet dApp ecosystem, and much more. Show Notes:  (00:00:00) – Introduction. (00:02:44) – Guests' backgrounds. (00:03:39) – Overview of StarkWare. (00:07:03) – Coding with Cairo on StarkWare.  (00:10:14) – Deploying game logic on top of Starknet. (00:11:48) – The low cost of transactions.  (00:16:34) – Implementation speed for integrating dApps.  (00:19:44) – How StarkWare compares to optimistic rollups.  (00:24:42) – Platforms building on top of StarkWare. (00:27:39) – What success for StarkWare looks like.  (00:28:52) – Data availability, sharding, and Validium. (00:33:08) – Transaction costs on Validium vs. ZK.  (00:36:19) – Addressing critiques of StarkWare.  (00:43:30) – Being ahead of schedule. (00:45:28) – Building a community without a token.  (00:46:34) – Game-changing applications on Starknet.  (00:50:07) – Attracting traditional gaming franchises.  (00:53:06) – Best advice from Eli and Uri. (00:57:44) – How to get involved with StarkWare. Social links:  Eli's Twitter Eli's Linkedin Uri's Twitter Uri's Linkedin StarkWare Twitter StarkNet Discord Resources:  StarkWare Website StarkWare Blog STARK @ Home StarkNet Website More Our Video interviews Can Be Viewed Here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9Yy99ZlQIX9-PdG_xHj43Q Access Delphi's Research Here: http://members.delphidigital.io/ Disclosures: This podcast is strictly informational and educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any tokens or securities or to make any financial decisions. Do not trade or invest in any project, tokens, or securities based upon this podcast episode. The host and members at Delphi Digital may personally own tokens or art that are mentioned on the podcast. Our current show features paid sponsorships which may be featured at the start, middle, and/or the end of the episode. These sponsorships are for informational purposes only and are not a solicitation to use any product, service or token. Delphi's transparency page can be viewed here.

Establishing trust between people and institutions is extremely important. But there are pitfalls to the current methods we all use to establish trust. Many people lack trust in huge centralized systems given their size, subsequent power, and lack of transparency. On the other hand, decentralized systems with democratizing ideas intended to build trust are often difficult to execute at scale, especially at the pace required to keep up with technological acceleration. On this episode of Future of Tech, Eli Ben Sasson (@elibensasson), Co-Founder, President & Chairman of the Board at StarkWare (@starkwareltd), discusses his alternative approach, which involves using math in order to build trust. A math proof, he explains, can offer broad verification across a great amount of data between parties by checking the computation at specific points. In layman's terms, that means the issue of scalability is solved while also reducing cost. And these zero-knowledge proofs also provide the added benefit of privacy since there is no information shared about any of the parties involved beyond the computation. Most importantly, since the math is objective, correct, and verifiable trust among all parties increases. So what does this all mean for the future of trust in business and tech? Find out on this episode!  Main Takeaways: Magical Math: Math proofs are magical because a computation checked only in certain places can verify that an overall relationship, potentially including many parties, is working as intended. This allows for a tremendous amount of transactions at great speed while also providing verifiable certainty that everything is functioning according to plan.   Zero-Knowledge is Good: Zero-Knowledge may sound bad to the layperson but it's really an under-valued solution to major problems. The zero-knowledge proof gives certainty in the computation by only analyzing particular points in a system. As an added benefit, It offers no additional information about any entity involved in the computation. This ensures certainty and privacy. Theoretical Beauty Meets Practicality: The theoretical world can be intellectually stimulating. Doing work that has tangible real-world results is also meaningful. In one's work, connecting the theoretical with practical applications can provide deep satisfaction. Making Meaning via Passion and Optimism: Passion is when someone does what is most meaningful to them. Optimism allows a person to stretch and try something new despite the potential for failure. In fact, optimism increases one's chances of finding a solution to a problem. Both passion and optimism play vital roles in creating new meaning for the individual and, potentially, for the world. --- Future of Tech is brought to you by Amdocs Tech. Amdocs Tech is Amdocs's R&D and technology center, paving the way to a better-connected future by creating open, innovative, best-in-class products and continuously evolving the way we work, learn and live. To learn more about Amdocs Tech, visit the Amdocs Technology page on LinkedIn.

Many crypto industry titans - including Vitalik Buterin - believe ZK Rollups are the key to Ethereum's scalability. With DeFi exchange dYdX generating over $2 BILLION in daily volume on Starkware, a ZK Rollup solution, I'm excited to chat with Starkware founders about:Why ZK-Rollups are the future vs. other Layer 2sStarkware vs. Optimism vs. Arbitrum: who wins?Can Fast Layer 1s like Solana compete with Starkware?Host: Jason Choi @mrjasonchoi . Not financial advice.------------ Sponsors -------------PARASWAP is the best place to trade your tokens and get the best price in DeFi today. Get started on paraswap.io/blockcrunchSOLANA: The Solana ecosystem is growing at a rapid pace and it's a great place to build your project or get involved with the community. Go to solana.com/blockcrunch to learn more!------------ Disclosures -------------Disclaimer: Jason Choi is a General Partner at Spartan Capital, a subsidiary of The Spartan Group. All opinions expressed by Jason and podcast guests are solely their own opinions and do not reflect the opinion of The Spartan Group and any of its subsidiaries

Many crypto industry titans - including Vitalik Buterin - believe ZK Rollups are the key to Ethereum's scalability. With DeFi exchange dYdX generating over $2 BILLION in daily volume on Starkware, a ZK Rollup solution, I'm excited to chat with Starkware founders about: Why ZK-Rollups are the future vs. other Layer 2s Starkware vs. Optimism vs. Arbitrum: who wins? Can Fast Layer 1s like Solana compete with Starkware? Host: Jason Choi @mrjasonchoi . Not financial advice. ------------ Sponsors ------------- PARASWAP is the best place to trade your tokens and get the best price in DeFi today. Get started on paraswap.io/blockcrunch SOLANA: The Solana ecosystem is growing at a rapid pace and it's a great place to build your project or get involved with the community. Go to solana.com/blockcrunch to learn more! ------------ Disclosures ------------- Disclaimer: Jason Choi is a General Partner at Spartan Capital, a subsidiary of The Spartan Group. All opinions expressed by Jason and podcast guests are solely their own opinions and do not reflect the opinion of The Spartan Group and any of its subsidiaries

In this week’s episode, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) has a one-on-one chat with Alex Ozdemir, a PhD student at Stanford researching formal methods, cryptography and distributed systems. Alex’s work is closely tied to the world of generalized computations within zero knowledge systems. He is one of the main developers of CirC, an infrastructure framework for building zero knowledge languages. In their conversation, Alex and Anna take a bird’s eye view of the current landscape of zk languages and libraries. Alex explains the history and current state-of-the-art of circuit-building tools, touching on libraries like Libsnark, Bellman and more comprehensive tools like Arkworks; hardware description languages like Circom; and the more dev-friendly family of RAM-register languages like ZoKrates, Pequin, Cairo, Leo and many more. Here, the race is still on as a number of academic and business-oriented teams grapple with limitations to memory access & performance given by zero knowledge proving systems. The latest Gitcoin Grants CLR matching program is live! Gitcoin is the easiest and most effective way to support Zero Knowledge and help us produce great content every week. With CLR matching, each contributor counts. Even $1 goes a long way thanks to the quadratic funding concept. To top it all off, Gitcoin supports zero knowledge-native payment solutions like ZkSync! Click here to reach our Gitcoin page. (https://gitcoin.co/grants/329/zero-knowledge-podcast) Here are all the links for this episode: An intro dive (https://medium.com/cornellblockchain/a-brief-dive-into-zk-snarks-and-the-zokrates-toolbox-on-the-ethereum-blockchain-cb7bd7f00fdc) into the world of zero knowledge languages and ZoKrates Circom and Hermez with Jordi Baylina, Zero Knowledge episode 145 (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/145) zk-SNARKs for Scale with Matter Labs, Zero Knowledge episode 72 (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/72) zkStudyClub about CirC (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzWHml9hRn4) zkStudyClub on Polynomial Commitments (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bz16BURH_u8) StarkWare’s Eli Ben-Sasson on STARKs and Cairo, Zero Knowledge episode 96 (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/96) Pratyush Mishra on all things Arkworks, Zero Knowledge episode 169 (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/169) Alex’s Stanford page (https://cs.stanford.edu/~aozdemir/) and paper on CirC (https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/1586). Thanks to this week’s sponsor, Mina Protocol (https://minaprotocol.com). Mina is the world’s lightest blockchain, creating a private gateway between the real world and crypto. The layer-one protocol replaces the traditional blockchain with a zero-knowledge proof, ensuring a super-light and constant sized chain that allows participants to quickly sync and verify the network. The entire chain is, and always will be, about 22kb — even as it scales. And SNARK-powered dApps, called Snapps, allow access to verified real world data from any website for on-chain use. The ecosystem is growing fast ahead of Mina's upcoming mainnet launch, with validators and community members in more than 120 countries. There are still opportunities to get involved at the ground level. Visit minaprotocol.com (https://minaprotocol.com) to find out more. Join the community at Mina’s free virtual Illuminate Summit on March 28th, visit illuminate.minaprotocol.com (https://www.illuminate.minaprotocol.com) to secure your spot. *If you like what we do: * Follow us on Twitter - @zeroknowledgefm (https://twitter.com/zeroknowledgefm) Join us on Telegram (https://t.me/joinchat/B_81tQ57-ThZg8yOSx5gjA) Catch us on Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYWsYz5cKw4wZ9Mpe4kuM_g) Read up on the r/ZKPodcast subreddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/zkpodcast) Give us feedback! -https://forms.gle/iKMSrVtcAn6BByH6A Support our Gitcoin Grant (https://gitcoin.co/grants/329/zero-knowledge-podcast-2) Support us on the ZKPatreon (https://www.patreon.com/zeroknowledge) Donate through coinbase.commerce (https://commerce.coinbase.com/checkout/f1e56274-c92b-4a99-802f-50727d651b38) *Or directly here: * ETH: 0xC0FFEE1B5083230a5154F55f253B6b6ae8F29B1a BTC: 1cafekGa3podM4fBxPSQc6RCEXQNTK8Zz ZEC: t1R2bujRF3Hzte9ALHpMJvY8t5kb9ut9SpQ DOT: 14zPzb7ihiBeaUn9jdPW9cHKGBd9qtTuJE75hhW2CvzLh6rT

Zero-Knowledge proofs have broadened the realm of use cases for applied cryptography over the past decade, from privacy-enhanced cryptocurrencies to applications in voting, finance, protecting medical data and more. In 2018, Dr. Eli Ben-Sasson and his team introduced ZK-STARKs, a new zero-knowledge construction that functions without trusted setup, thereby broadening what zero-knowledge systems are capable of. We’ll talk about ZK-STARKs and more with Eli in this episode of Cryptography FM. Links and papers discussed in the show: * Scalable, transparent, and post-quantum secure computational integrity (https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/046.pdf) * Cairo Language (https://www.cairo-lang.org) * Cairo Workshop, 14-15 March 2021! (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cairo-101-workshop-i-tickets-142918738795) Music composed by Toby Fox and performed by Sean Schafianski (https://seanschafianski.bandcamp.com/). Special Guest: Eli Ben-Sasson.

Antonio Juliano, founder of the decentralized exchange dYdX, and Eli Ben-Sasson, cofounder of StarkWare, discuss the recent launch of dYdX on Ethereum layer 2 using StarkWare’s scaling technology. In this episode, they cover: what cross-margin perpetual trading is and why dYdX chose StarkWare to be its scaling partner (1:13) ZK rollups and how they contrast with optimistic rollups (8:49) how many transactions per second StarkWare can handle through its layer 2 solution (16:57) lessons learned and critical takeaways from their six months spent working together (20:15) the similarities between Ethereum and StarkNet (26:07) why Antonio believes that scalability is more important than composability (27:30) the benefits of decentralized exchanges and how dYdX fits into the dex marketplace (31:54) why dYdX chose Chainlink as its oracle provider, and how it got oracle prices onto layer 2, which previously had none (38:11) why Cairo, StarkWare’s Turing-complete programming language and platform, can be the “one verifier to rule them all” (42:10) what it was like for StarkWare to compete in the Great Reddit Scaling Bake-Off (45:41) whether or not DeFi could handle a GameStop/Robinhood situation (48:56) fair launch tokens versus VC tokens (54:12) the likelihood of dYdX and StarkWare each creating a token (58:19) upcoming developments and projects for both companies (1:02:14)   Thank you to our sponsors!  Crypto.com: https://crypto.onelink.me/J9Lg/unchainedcardearnfeb2021  Download the Crypto.com app here: https://crypto.onelink.me/J9Lg/laurashinpodcasttesla   Square: https://square.com/go/unchained   Episode Links: Antonio Juliano Twitter: https://twitter.com/AntonioMJuliano  Eli Ben-Sasson Twitter: https://twitter.com/EliBenSasson  dYdX Twitter: https://twitter.com/dydxprotocol Website: https://dydx.exchange/  Exchange: https://alpha.dydx.exchange/trade/BTC-USD  Reading Material Recent funding: https://www.coindesk.com/big-guns-back-10m-investment-in-defis-dydx  2020 in review: https://dydx.exchange/2020.pdf  Decrypt profile: https://decrypt.co/resources/dydx-ethereum-margin-trading-platform-explained-learn  Medium post: https://medium.com/dydxderivatives/introducing-dydx-2d0f0f326fd StarkWare Twitter: https://twitter.com/StarkWareLtd  Website: https://starkware.co/  Reading Material: ZK roll-up explainer: https://medium.com/starkware/on-the-road-to-starknet-a-permissionless-stark-powered-l2-zk-rollup-83be53640880  Understanding Cairo: https://medium.com/starkware/hello-cairo-3cb43b13b209  Funding: https://www.coindesk.com/paradigm-leads-30-million-funding-for-crypto-privacy-startup-starkware dYdX and StarkWare Relationship Original Twitter announcement (2020):  https://twitter.com/dydxprotocol/status/1295791012552597507?s=20  The Block’s original coverage:  https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/75209/dex-dydx-starkware-layer-2  Layer 2 is live announcement:  https://twitter.com/dydxprotocol/status/1364591430447091719  Blog post on why dYdX is moving to Layer 2 (2021):  https://dydx.exchange/blog/alpha  CoinDesk’s coverage:  https://www.coindesk.com/defi-tech-cefi-speed-dydx-touts-new-starkware-integration    Other CoinDesk on Ethereum Layer 1 vs. Ethereum Layer 2: https://www.coindesk.com/value-layer-one-layer-two Roll-ups as throughput solutions: https://www.coindesk.com/ethereum-dapps-rollups-heres-why Vitalik on optimistic rollups vs. ZK-rollups:  https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/01/05/rollup.html Antonio showing how dYdX works: https://twitter.com/AntonioMJuliano/status/1364760651579551744 Optimistic Rollup Dilemma (written by StarkWare) https://medium.com/starkware/the-optimistic-rollup-dilemma-c8fc470ca10c ChainLink Tweet on dYdX + StarkWare relationship: https://twitter.com/chainlink/status/1364726829702148102  The Great Reddit Scaling Bake-Off https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/hbjx25/the_great_reddit_scaling_bakeoff/

Antonio Juliano, founder of the decentralized exchange dYdX, and Eli Ben-Sasson, cofounder of StarkWare, discuss the recent launch of dYdX on Ethereum layer 2 using StarkWare's scaling technology. In this episode, they cover: what cross-margin perpetual trading is and why dYdX chose StarkWare to be its scaling partner (1:13) ZK rollups and how they contrast with optimistic rollups (8:49) how many transactions per second StarkWare can handle through its layer 2 solution (16:57) lessons learned and critical takeaways from their six months spent working together (20:15) the similarities between Ethereum and StarkNet (26:07) why Antonio believes that scalability is more important than composability (27:30) the benefits of decentralized exchanges and how dYdX fits into the dex marketplace (31:54) why dYdX chose Chainlink as its oracle provider, and how it got oracle prices onto layer 2, which previously had none (38:11) why Cairo, StarkWare's Turing-complete programming language and platform, can be the “one verifier to rule them all” (42:10) what it was like for StarkWare to compete in the Great Reddit Scaling Bake-Off (45:41) whether or not DeFi could handle a GameStop/Robinhood situation (48:56) fair launch tokens versus VC tokens (54:12) the likelihood of dYdX and StarkWare each creating a token (58:19) upcoming developments and projects for both companies (1:02:14)   Thank you to our sponsors!  Crypto.com: https://crypto.onelink.me/J9Lg/unchainedcardearnfeb2021  Download the Crypto.com app here: https://crypto.onelink.me/J9Lg/laurashinpodcasttesla   Square: https://square.com/go/unchained   Episode Links: Antonio Juliano Twitter: https://twitter.com/AntonioMJuliano  Eli Ben-Sasson Twitter: https://twitter.com/EliBenSasson  dYdX Twitter: https://twitter.com/dydxprotocol Website: https://dydx.exchange/  Exchange: https://alpha.dydx.exchange/trade/BTC-USD  Reading Material Recent funding: https://www.coindesk.com/big-guns-back-10m-investment-in-defis-dydx  2020 in review: https://dydx.exchange/2020.pdf  Decrypt profile: https://decrypt.co/resources/dydx-ethereum-margin-trading-platform-explained-learn  Medium post: https://medium.com/dydxderivatives/introducing-dydx-2d0f0f326fd StarkWare Twitter: https://twitter.com/StarkWareLtd  Website: https://starkware.co/  Reading Material: ZK roll-up explainer: https://medium.com/starkware/on-the-road-to-starknet-a-permissionless-stark-powered-l2-zk-rollup-83be53640880  Understanding Cairo: https://medium.com/starkware/hello-cairo-3cb43b13b209  Funding: https://www.coindesk.com/paradigm-leads-30-million-funding-for-crypto-privacy-startup-starkware dYdX and StarkWare Relationship Original Twitter announcement (2020):  https://twitter.com/dydxprotocol/status/1295791012552597507?s=20  The Block's original coverage:  https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/75209/dex-dydx-starkware-layer-2  Layer 2 is live announcement:  https://twitter.com/dydxprotocol/status/1364591430447091719  Blog post on why dYdX is moving to Layer 2 (2021):  https://dydx.exchange/blog/alpha  CoinDesk's coverage:  https://www.coindesk.com/defi-tech-cefi-speed-dydx-touts-new-starkware-integration    Other CoinDesk on Ethereum Layer 1 vs. Ethereum Layer 2: https://www.coindesk.com/value-layer-one-layer-two Roll-ups as throughput solutions: https://www.coindesk.com/ethereum-dapps-rollups-heres-why Vitalik on optimistic rollups vs. ZK-rollups:  https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/01/05/rollup.html Antonio showing how dYdX works: https://twitter.com/AntonioMJuliano/status/1364760651579551744 Optimistic Rollup Dilemma (written by StarkWare) https://medium.com/starkware/the-optimistic-rollup-dilemma-c8fc470ca10c ChainLink Tweet on dYdX + StarkWare relationship: https://twitter.com/chainlink/status/1364726829702148102  The Great Reddit Scaling Bake-Off https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/hbjx25/the_great_reddit_scaling_bakeoff/

Host Tom Shaughnessy talks to Uri Kolodny and Eli Ben Sasson of StarkWare, and Will Harborne from DeversiFi. They discuss the pros and cons of centralized and decentralized exchanges, the development of Layer 2 technologies, scalability, and more. Episode Highlights: StarkWare is an Israeli startup that develops proof systems for scalability, security, and permissions for blockchain. DeversiFi is a decentralized exchange that allows people to connect to any Ethereum wallet and can reach up to 9,000 TPS. DeversiFi is now working to scale up beyond Ethereum to its own centralized exchange, and is using StarkWare technology to do that. The biggest benefit of having all the benefits of a decentralized exchange operating on a centralized exchange is a higher number of trades per second. Starks are a type of zero-knowledge proof system with extreme scalability and transparency that rely on a lot of complex mathematics behind the scenes. What this technology results in is essentially a receipt for your transaction, a guarantee that your trade was handled correctly and that there was computational integrity. There are differences between Snarks and Starks—Starks have no trusted setup and have post-quantum security. When you want to scale, you don’t want a trusted setup limiting you to generating new sets of keys but allows you to operate more universally. It’s a plausible security threat that eventually hackers will be able to breach coins and blockchains that are not post-quantum secured. Adding zero-knowledge to the settlement process doesn’t automatically give you privacy, so they’re working on boosting those privacy demands. Pure centralized exchange technology is rapidly becoming a commodity, including cloud-based services. They are starting to look at non-fungible tokens. Key Points: In terms of scalability, the next step is to have all the security benefits of a decentralized exchange with the speed of a centralized exchange. Centralized exchanges will always be needed for simple retail exchanges. This partnership is one of the first Layer 2 scaling technologies being used to power an existing business model. Tweetable Quotes “We all believe that this technology of zero-knowledge proofs is going to be used someday by even the most powerful of monopolies or governments to attest to the citizens that everything has been done with computational integrity.” –Eli Ben Sasson   “I think the fiat on-ramp is naturally the hardest thing to decentralize if it can be at all.” –Will  “Our scalability can basically be considered a means of saving the application gas cost on Ethereum and allowing it to scale essentially indefinitely. Think of us as a compression service.” –Uri Kolodny Support The Show ZenLedger is the official tax software of Chain Reaction for crypto investors and accountants. Get a 15% discount when you use code Chain15. https://bit.ly/3bundEl Visit Delta Exchange For A $10 Welcome Bonus! https://www.delta.exchange/Tom Resources Mentioned:  Chain Reaction Twitter: https://twitter.com/chainpodcast Tom Shaughnessy Twitter: https://twitter.com/Shaughnessy119 ZenLedger is the official tax software of Chain Reaction for crypto investors and accountants. Get a 15% discount when you use code Chain15. StarkWare Website: https://starkware.co/ StarkWare Twitter: https://twitter.com/StarkWareLtd Deversefy Website: https://deversifi.com/   Disclosures: This podcast is strictly informational and educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any tokens or securities or to make any financial decisions. Do not trade or invest in any project, tokens, or securities based upon this podcast episode. The host may personally own tokens that are mentioned on the podcast. Tom Shaughnessy owns tokens in ETH, BTC, XTZ, STX, SNX, RUNE, sUSD and HNT. Lets Talk Bitcoin is a distribution partner for the Chain Reaction Podcast, and our current show features paid sponsorships which may be featured at the start, middle and/or the end of the episode. These sponsorships are for informational purposes only and are not a solicitation to use any product or service.    Music Attribution: Cosmos by From The Dust | https://soundcloud.com/ftdmusic Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US   

A great episode with Eli and Uri from Starkware! This is a special project focusing on cryptographic proofs using zero-knowledge, succinct, transparent and post-quantum secure processes. We had a really interesting conversation about zk's -- furthering helping listeners understand their impact. We also discussed quantum -- in light of Google's recent announcement - the cause and effect of quantum on encryption in blockchains. Lastly we discussed StarkPay vs Lightning. Must listen! 

This past year, we have witnessed what some are calling a “Cambrian Explosion” in zero-knowledge proof systems. New proof systems based on a variety of cryptographic assumptions are popping up every week. And while zero-knowledge systems are known for their privacy-preserving characteristics, they have proven particularly useful for scaling blockchains through off-chain computations.We're joined by Eli Ben Sasson, Co-founder and Cheif Scientist in the East at Starkware. His company is developing a full proof-stack, which leverages STARKs. Pioneered by Eli, STARKs are zero-knowledge cryptographic proofs, which are succinct, transparent, and post-quantum secure. StarkWare has demonstrated how zkSTARKs may be leveraged to provide off-chain scalability by generating proofs of computational integrity which may be verified on-chain.Topics covered in this episode:Eli's trajectory and transition from academia to the startup worldThe origin story of Starkware and the founding teamThe current explosion of zero-knowledge proof researchAn overview of zero-knowledge proof systems and how they workWhat are STARKs and what are their propertiesHow STARKs are different from SNARKs and BulletproofsWhat are zk-Rollups and how they are used by StarkWare to achieve scalabilityThe StarkDEX experiment and scalability benefits it had demonstratedThe issue of data availability with layer-2 scaling solutionsStarkWare's business model and the solutions they are building for customersEpisode links: StarkWareStarkWare resourcesStarkWare blogStarkWare TwitterStarkWare Sessions conference videosEpicenter Podcast SFBW Week MeetupDeFi Hackathon sponsored by CosmosSF Blockchain Week 2019 (use the code EPICENTER for 20% off tickets)Macro.WTFSponsors: Vaultoro: Trade gold to Bitcoin instantly and securely starting at just 1mg - http://vaultoro.comB9Lab: Level up and become a Solidity smart contract auditor – 5% off the with the code EPICENTER - https://solidified.b9lab.com/epicenterThis episode is hosted by Sebastien Couture & Sunny Aggarwal. Show notes and listening options: epicenter.tv/310

In this week’s episode, Anna catches up with Eli Ben Sasson (https://twitter.com/EliBenSasson) to talk about the latest from StarkWare (https://twitter.com/StarkWareLtd), the explosion of new research within the zero knowledge space and the origin of new mathematical ideas. Recorded right after the StarkWare Sessions in tel aviv, and during a period of incredible development in new cryptographic zk techniques and protocol proposals. Here are some of the papers and ideas we cover: * STARK-friendly hash competition (https://starkware.co/hash-challenge/) * Succinct Arguments in the Quantum Random Oracle Model (https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/834.pdf) * More resources about StarkWare and STARK technology (https://starkware.co/resources/) * Henri Pointcaré - Science and Hypothesis (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmmgWcbAmjo) The chapter mentioned is "On the Nature of Mathematical Reasoning" As mentioned in the intro, the Zero Knowledge Summit (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/summit) is happening on Oct 26th in San Francisco If you are a dev, researcher or founder working on these topics and want to attend, please submit your application here: https://forms.gle/bZvaywbvCe2dnBkD7 Here (https://medium.com/zeroknowledge/zero-knowledge-summit-zk0x03-a9bb755a421c) are some impressions from the last one! If you like what we do: Follow us on Twitter - @zeroknowledgefm Join us on Telegram - https://t.me/joinchat/B_81tQ57-ThZg8yOSx5gjA Support our Gitcoin Grant - https://gitcoin.co/grants/38/zero-knowledge-podcast Support us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/zeroknowledge Or directly here: ETH: 0xC0FFEE1B5083230a5154F55f253B6b6ae8F29B1a BTC: 1cafekGa3podM4fBxPSQc6RCEXQNTK8Zz

US Ends Waiver Program for Iranian Oil the US may now be considering drafting a new deal with Iran after it pulled out of the JCPOA last year. #IRAN #OIL ____________________ US Offers $10-Mil for Info On Hezbollah's Finances The United States is also now for the first time ever offering up to 10 million dollars in rewards for any information that could lead to the interruption of Hezbollah's finances. #HEZBOLLAH #USA ____________________ Washington Ups Sanctions On Iran; Iranian Proxies Dr. Martin Sherman, The Founder & Executive Director of The IISS joins us in the studio to speak about the question looming over these latest actions of the United States' sanctions on Iran and the Iranian regime's proxies like terror group Hezbollah: Do these sanctions really even have a chance of being effective? #SANCTIONS #IRAN __________________ PM Allegedly Orchestrated Arab Voter Intimidation The saga of alleged elections tampering and voter fraud continues as a Channel 13 report Monday night revealed that the 1,200 hidden cameras found at Arab polling stations around the country, were personally orchestrated by PM Netanyahu. #VOTER #ARABS ____________________ 5. IDF Soldiers Shoot and Injure Palestinian Teen Terrible yet conflicting reports are now coming out over how a hospitalized Palestinian teen was allegedly shot in his thighs by the IDF, while attempting to run away in handcuffs and a blindfold. #IDF #PALESTINIAN ___________________ Passover Well-Wishes Cause Controversy Both Polish nationalists and the UK Labour Party are now under fire for adding a dose of Anti-Semitism to their holiday well-wishes.   #PASSOVER #ANTISEMITISM ___________________ Orthodox Rabbis Show Support For Trans Teen As proof that there's still compassion in the world, Orthodox Israeli rabbis have just sent a letter of support to a transgender Ashkelon teenager Osher Band. #OSHERBAND #RABBIS ___________________ Bar Rafaeli Ordered To Pay $4.5-Mil In Back-Taxes Being rich and beautiful apparently does not absolve you from the mundane act of dealing with the tax man. #BARRAFAELI #TAXES ___________________ Technion Sues Sr. Prof for 50% of His Company Haifa's Technion Israel Institute of Technology is now suing one of its very own professors - Eli Ben-Sasson. This, as the university alleges he tried to monetize his academic research when he founded his own private company, Starkware industries. #ELIBENSASSON #TECHNIONUNIVERSITY                 ___________________ Israeli Startups Report Massive Q1 Successes Israeli startups reported over 1.55 billion dollars in investments in the first quarter of 2019. #STARTUPS #INVESTMENTS ___________________ 11.First TLV Light Rail Car Unveiled The long awaited Tel Aviv light rail system is still years away from operation. But in China, railway vehicle manufacturer, CRRC, has now revealed the first train destined for the Tel Aviv tracks. #TELAVIV #LIGHTRAIL ___________________ 1100k People Gather For Priestly Blessings The Jewish Passover holiday is halfway through and in line with tradition over 100,000 people gathered at the Western Wall in Jerusalem Monday for the biannual reading of the Birkat Hacohanim or the priestly blessing prayer services. #WESTERNWALL #PRAYER ___________________ Today in History Today in History, on April 23, 1963… one of the founders of Zionism and modern Israel; the third President of the Jewish State, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, passed away. #TODAYINHISTORY #ILTVTODAYINHISTORY #YITZCHAKBENZVI            ___________________ The Weather Forecast Tonight should be partly cloudy and comfortable with a low of fifty-three, or twelve degrees Celsius. Then tomorrow you can expect clear to partly cloudy skies, and a rise in temperatures to a high of seventy-eight or twenty-six degrees Celsius.  #ISRAELWEATHER   #ISRAELFORECAST  ___________________ The United States increases its sanctions in the Middle East; specifically targeting Iran, and Iranian-terror proxy Hezbollah. New evidence is revealed in the case of Likud cameras hidden in Arab polling stations and over 100,000 people from all over the world arrive in Jerusalem, for the biannual priestly blessings, or the Birkat Hacohanim. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Computational integrity is a property that is required for financial transactions on the Internet. Computational integrity means that the output of a certain computation is correct. If I deposit money into my bank, my bank sends me a number that represents the new balance in my account. I assume that the number they have sent The post StarkWare: Transparent Computational Integrity with Eli Ben Sasson appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

In this week's episode, we catch up with Eli Ben-Sasson and Alessandro Chiesa from StarkWare Industries (https://www.starkware.co/). We talk about their longstanding academic work in theoretic & applied cryptography, how StarkWare came to be, the emergence of zkSNARKs and zkSTARKs, some of the differences between these different zero knowledge systems, dive into the specific features of STARKs (!) and what's coming next in the space. For some background on the topics we cover in this episode, please check out the other episodes in our ZK Series (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/zkseries) Here are a few papers we mentioned in the talk: Zero coin: http://zerocoin.org/media/pdf/ZerocoinOakland.pdf Zero cash: http://zerocash-project.org/paper Follow Eli on Twitter: https://twitter.com/elibensasson?lang=en To find out about our ZK Study Club, join the Zero Knowledge telegram group: https://t.me/joinchat/B_81tQ57-ThZg8yOSx5gjA Special thanks to POA Network (https://poa.network/) for being our sponsor on this episode. To learn more about threshold cryptography and how to use it, check out the latest POA Network Medium post : https://medium.com/poa-network/tagged/hbbft If you like what we do: Follow us on Twitter - @zeroknowledgefm (https://twitter.com/zeroknowledgefm) Support us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/zeroknowledge Or directly here: ETH: 0xC0FFEE1B5083230a5154F55f253B6b6ae8F29B1a BTC: 1cafekGa3podM4fBxPSQc6RCEXQNTK8Zz

In this episode Dirk Jaekel & Ksenya discuss zcash with Zooko. Zcash dev wiki https://github.com/zcash/zcash/wiki/specification, a repo https://github.com/zcash/zcash and a user guide https://github.com/zcash/zcash/wiki/1.0-User-Guide To get your head around zero knowledge proofs and zcash even better we also recommend two episodes recorded by our fellow podcasters Meher & Brian from a different podcast Epicenter: Ep116 with professor Eli Ben-Sasson and Ep122 with Zooko Here is the paper that we mention “How to explain Zero-Knowledge Protocols to your children” Towards the middle of the podcast we talk about a practical way of making a nice and useful zcash node, which we intend to make IRL and will shortly publish some basic specs for it. For the latest updates, you can check Oktahedron on Twitter and feel free to ping any questions to Dirk Jäckel & Ksenya.

Zero Knowledge Proofs are methods of providing cryptographic proofs to another party while keeping some information secret. The simple concept of ZKP offer tantalizing possibilities: Banks could prove solvency without revealing depositors. Governments could prove the fairness of an election without compromising privacy. Computer science professor Eli Ben-Sasson joined us to discuss where blockchains and cryptocurrencies intersect with Zero Knowledge Proofs and related technologies such as zkSNARKs. It offered a fascinating view into what will surely become a core part of blockchain tech in the future. Topics covered in this episode: What are proof systems? Zero Knowledge Proofs (ZKP) and other terminology such as SNARKs and zkSNARKs The mechanics of Zero Knowledge Proofs The role of performance in Zero Knowledge Proofs Applications of ZKPs The widespread potential impact of ZKP to verify processes Episode links: Eli Ben-Sasson's Website SNARKs for C talk by Madars Virza Stackexchange: What are SNARKs SNARKs for C paper [PDF] Zerocash Talk This episode is hosted by Brian Fabian Crain and Meher Roy. Show notes and listening options: epicenter.tv/116