Podcasts about zksnark

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Thomas Voegtlin to discuss Newsletter #256. News Proposal to extend BOLT11 invoices to request two payments (1:00) Waiting for confirmation #6: Policy Consistency (19:25) Changes to services and client software Greenlight libraries open sourced (32:01) Tapscript debugger Tapsim (33:25) Bitcoin Keeper 1.0.4 announced (35:09) Lightning wallet EttaWallet announced (35:47) zkSNARK-based block header sync PoC announced (37:09) lnprototest v0.0.4 released (39:45) Releases and release candidates Eclair v0.9.0 (41:24) Notable code and documentation changes LDK #2294 (44:33) LDK #2156 (46:57)

Panther is an end-to-end privacy protocol for DeFi. Panther provides DeFi users with fully collateralized privacy-enhancing digital assets, leveraging crypto-economic incentives and zkSNARK technology.Anish Mohammed is a Co-founder and CTO at Panther Protocol. He recently joined the Bitcoin.com News Podcast to talk about the technology.Anish has over 20 years in security and cryptography, was an early advisor to Ripple, reviewed the Ethereum orange paper, worked on several projects including Ocean and Boson and is the co-founder of the UK Digital Currency Association.Panther provides DeFi users with fully collateralized privacy-enhancing digital assets, leveraging crypto-economic incentives and zkSNARKs technology. Users can mint zero-knowledge zAssets by depositing digital assets from any blockchain into Panther vaults. zAssets flow across blockchains via a privacy-first interchain DEX and a private metastrate. Panther envisions that zAssets will become an ever-expanding asset class for users who want their transactions and strategies the way they should always have been: private. Follow the Panther team on Telegram, Twitter and Discord.

Takさん（@TakDefi, @RealtyPnw）と一緒に暗号通貨や期待する技術、金融と決済の未来について話しました。 ホワイトペーパーどこ読む? 暗号通貨やNFT詐欺の手法 暗号通貨TITANで何が起きていたか ゼロ知識証明で何ができるか https://zksync.io/ zkSnarkを説明した論文 http://petkus.info/papers/WhyAndHowZkSnarkWorks.pdf 金融と決済の未来 Your co-hosts: Tomoaki Imai, https://twitter.com/tomoaki_imai Yusuke Kawanabe, Software Engineer https://twitter.com/ykawanabe

This week Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) chats with Adrian Brink (https://twitter.com/adrian_brink), co-founder of the Anoma Network and long-time crypto builder. Adrian explains all there is to know about the new privacy-centric network, diving into concepts like fractal scaling, the validity predicate-based account model, the solution against front-running in Ferveo & much more. Here are some links for the episode: CowSwap & DAO Tech with Gnosis's Martin Köppelmann, Zero Knowledge episode 183 (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/183) Through the Cosmos Stargate Upgrade, Zero Knowledge episode 174 (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/174) Cosmos, IBC and ZKPs with Chris Goes, Zero Knowledge episode 115 (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/115) Trusted Setup Ceremonies Explored, Zero Knowledge episode 133 (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/133) Threshold Decryption for mempool privacy with Dev Ojha, ZKV Cosmos Privacy & ZKP showcase (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7q_uvvKmqrY&list=PLj80z0cJm8QGNPbPJ2adQhN5W890O7YMr) The Wyvern protocol (https://wyvernprotocol.com) mentioned by Adrian. The Plumo trusted setup ceremony (https://celo.org/plumo) (phase 2 happening soon) mentioned by Anna Anoma's Whitepaper (https://anoma.network/papers/whitepaper.pdf) and blog posts (https://anoma.network/blog). The next zkSessions is scheduled for June 23 and will focus on DAOs and NFTs, in the context of privacy and zkps. This will also be a special event where the community will discuss the potential of a ZK DAO! Sign up for the zkSessions here: https://hopin.com/events/zksessions-daos-nfts Today's episode is sponsored by EY Blockchain. EY is committed to building a better working world on the public Ethereum blockchain with robust privacy technologies, like zero-knowledge proofs. EY believes blockchain technology will be the glue that knits together a productive global business ecosystem. To learn more about EYs products and services, visit them at https://blockchain.ey.com or check out their open source contributions at https://github.com/eyblockchain. If you like what we do: Follow us on Twitter - @zeroknowledgefm (https://twitter.com/zeroknowledgefm) Join us on Telegram (https://t.me/joinchat/TORo7aknkYNLHmCM) 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

This week Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) and James (https://twitter.com/_prestwich) chat with Elena Nadolinski (https://twitter.com/leanthebean), founder of Iron Fish, about the new privacy network and what led her to this point. Elena recounts her journey into crypto, starting from AirBnB and falling into the rabbit hole of Ethereum hackathons, Solidity, and NFTs, eventually leading her to exploration of zero knowledge proofs for honest computation. This deep dive into SNARKs and Sapling led to the creation of Beanstalk, later Iron Fish, which aims to be the shielded pool for all other blockchain assets. Note: James is an investor in Iron Fish Here are some links: Elena’s slides (https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1qsOtMLiBVhVMbeB_R0heTSMRsKnhuOKfhACFiXKM-J0/edit#slide=id.p) about Sapling from Zcon Iron Fish whitepaper (https://ironfish.network/docs/whitepaper/1_introduction) Halo with Sean Bowe and Daira Hopwood, Zero Knowledge Episode 123 (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/123) Zexe: Zero Knowledge Computation with Pratyush Mishra, Zero Knowledge Episode 85 (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/85) Ariel Gabizon on his work with zkSNARKs, Zero Knowledge Episode 86 (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/86) Don’t forget to subscribe to the ZkMesh newsletter (https://zkmesh.substack.com), aggregating all of the latest developments in ZK each month. The next release is due this week! We also launched a newsletter for announcements (https://zeroknowledge.substack.com/) related to what we do at ZK podcast. Subscribe to make sure you never miss a zkSessions or studyClub event! If you like what we do: Follow us on Twitter - @zeroknowledgefm (https://twitter.com/zeroknowledgefm) Join us on Telegram (https://t.me/joinchat/TORo7aknkYNLHmCM) 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

In this week’s episode, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) chats with Zac Williamson (https://twitter.com/zac_aztec) and Joe Andrews (https://twitter.com/jaosef), respectively CTO and Head of Product at Aztec. The episode is centered on Aztec’s latest release, zk.money, the “zk-zk-rollup” that targets privacy and scalability at the same time. zk.money allows users to shield their Ethereum-based assets while achieving a higher transaction count, a result that took months of research and development of the TurboPLONK. Zac and Joe explain how it works down to the nitty-gritty of elliptic curve arithmetic, logic gates, hashes and circuits. The conversation then shifts to topics like WebAssembly (and its limitations), Ethereum, UltraPLONK, Noir & more. Here are some links for this episode: - Exploring Aztec with Zac Williamson, Zero Knowledge episode 75 (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/75) - Dive into Plonk!, Zero Knowledge episode 112 (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/112) - Building Private AMMs with Guillermo Angeris, Zero Knowledge episode 173 (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/173) - Into the deep end: making sense of PLONK - Zac Williamson (CTO, Aztec Protocol), zkSummit from October 2019 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty-LZf0YCK0) - Plookup: Speeding up the PLONK prover - Zac Williamson & Ariel Gabizon, zkSummit from March 2020 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vdlc1CmRYRY) Are you a passionate crypto and zk enthusiast? Think you’ve got the skills to contribute in the blockchain space? Then make sure to check out the ZK Jobs Fair (https://medium.com/zeroknowledge/see-you-at-the-zk-jobs-fair-23b9e538269f) on April 22. This will be the first virtual job fair hosted by us, where leading builders in the zk community will join to connect with talented individuals who are looking to contribute to the cutting edge work on zero knowledge applications. Check out the ZK Jobs Fair application form (https://forms.gle/o4GYoGDV23GvBnrTA), if you are interested in partecipating to the event. Thanks to this episode’s sponsor, Aave (https://aave.com) Aave is an open source, decentralised non-custodial liquidity protocol on Ethereum. With Aave, users can participate as depositors meaning they provide liquidity to earn a passive income. or they can also act as borrowers to borrow in an overcollateralized way or undercollateralized way (think: one-block liquidity Flash Loan). Aave recently deployed a new market on Polygon’s sidechain to let users pay much lower gas fees. Assets can be transferred from Ethereum with the Polygon Bridge and put to use on Aave’s Polygon markets. Learn more about it here (https://medium.com/aave/exploring-new-frontiers-with-aave-59563ddd2405). So thanks again, Aave! *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

In this week's episode, Anna explores the state of trusted setups with 4 of the people who have recently coordinated and run trusted setups for different SNARK systems. She interviews Koh Wei Jie (https://kohweijie.com/) from the Ethereum Foundation (https://twitter.com/ethereum), Thomas Walton-Pocock (https://twitter.com/trpocock) from Aztec Protocol (https://twitter.com/aztecprotocol), Brecht Devos (https://twitter.com/Brechtpd) from Loopring (https://twitter.com/loopringorg) and Kobi Gurkan (https://kobi.one/) from the EF and cLabs (https://celo.org/). This episode covers the new generation of trusted setups and how the teams working on these are learning from each other and at times, even sharing parts of the trusted set up itself. As a primer, Trusted Setups are those events or ceremonies that one needs to perform to generate the parameters that can kick off SNARK based systems. It is an MPC - or multiparty computation - that involves a number of participants sequentially downloading software, running a computation that includes some randomness that they generate and re-uploading their result to be folded into the next participants computation. At the end of this process, there is a hidden parameter that is used to create the keys that are used to create proofs for private transactions, and to verify those proofs. These keys prove that a transaction is correct. Here are some helpful links about all the various trusted setups we mention: Zcash's Trusted Setups https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/50 - Zooko speaks about the trusted set up at timecode 17:45 https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/ceremony https://z.cash/technology/paramgen/ EF's Perpetual Powers of Tau https://github.com/weijiekoh/perpetualpowersoftau Semaphore Semaphore blog post (https://medium.com/@weijiek/release-announcement-semaphore-a-zero-knowledge-gadget-for-ethereum-5b671cd360d4) Semaphore Phase 2 Multi-Party Trusted Setup Participant Guide (https://hackmd.io/oja21FipQ5KhQcXeyuQWFQ) MACI (upcoming) https://github.com/appliedzkp/maci Aztec Protocol https://www.aztecprotocol.com/ignition/ https://ignition.aztecprotocol.com/ Loopring https://loopring.org/#/post/loopring-starts-trusted-setup-multi-party-computation-ceremony Tornado Cash https://medium.com/@tornado.cash/the-biggest-trusted-setup-ceremony-in-the-world-3c6ab9c8fffa https://ceremony.tornado.cash/ cLabs (upcoming) https://github.com/celo-org/snark-setup Check out the Zero Knowledge Youtube Channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYWsYz5cKw4wZ9Mpe4kuM_g?view_as=subscriber) and be sure to subscribe to get the latest videos from the Podcast, zkSummit and zkStudyClub! Signup for zkMesh Newsletter (https://zkmesh.substack.com/) - a monthly newsletter focused on sharing resources about decentralised privacy-preserving technologies, privacy protocol development and zero knowledge systems research. Signup to get this delivered directly into your inbox -->> https://zkmesh.substack.com/ 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) 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) Or directly here: ETH: 0xC0FFEE1B5083230a5154F55f253B6b6ae8F29B1a BTC: 1cafekGa3podM4fBxPSQc6RCEXQNTK8Zz ZEC: t1R2bujRF3Hzte9ALHpMJvY8t5kb9ut9SpQ

Update from Horizen team hosted by: Co-founder and Team Lead - Rob Viglione (@finpunk), Rolf Versluis (@blockops), Rosario Pabst (@zench1ck) April 9, 2020, Weekly team updates from the following divisions: * Engineering * Node network * Product/UX * Customer service/Helpdesk * Legal * Business development * Marketing * CEO closing thoughts * 5 mins Q&A Ginger-lib is gaining interest. It is a general-purpose zkSNARK library, available at GitHub: https://github.com/ZencashOfficial/ginger-lib ZEN listed at MetalPay: https://www.metalpay.com/ Virtual Meetup planned for April 17: https://bit.ly/HorizenMeetupApril Horizen is an exciting cryptocurrency with a solid technological foundation, unique capabilities, an active and capable team, ongoing funding for improvements, and a large, positive, encouraging community. ZEN is available and trading now on Bittrex, Binance, Changelly, and more, has wallets available that implement advanced private transaction and messaging capability and has a strong roadmap. The goal of Horizen is to create a usable private cryptocurrency operating on a resilient system for people and businesses worldwide, enabling the daily use of private transactions, messaging, and publishing everywhere, all the time. Store: https://store.horizen.global Merchant Directory: https://horizen.global/merchants Horizen Nodes: https://horizen.global/zennodes Horizen Academy: https://academy.horizen.global/ Roadmap: https://goo.gl/eiyDx8 Reference: Horizen Website – https://www.horizen.global Horizen Blog – https://blog.zencash.com Horizen Discord - https://discord.gg/SuaMBTb Horizen Github – https://github.com/ZencashOfficial Horizen Forum – https://forum.horizen.global/ Horizen Twitter – https://twitter.com/horizenglobal Horizen Telegram – https://t.me/zencash Horizen on Bitcointalk – https://goo.gl/5vicqP Horizen YouTube Channel – https://www.youtube.com/c/Horizen/ Horizen Facebook Page – https://www.facebook.com/horizenglobal/ Horizen Blog on Medium – https://medium.com/zencash Buy or Sell Horizen Horizen on CoinMarketCap – https://goo.gl/4bKmRz

Update from Horizen team hosted by: Co-founder and Team Lead - Rob Viglione (@finpunk), Rolf Versluis (@blockops), Rosario Pabst (@zench1ck) April 2, 2020, Weekly team updates from the following divisions: * Engineering * Node network * Product/UX * Customer service/Helpdesk * Legal * Business development * Marketing * CEO closing thoughts * 5 mins Q&A Dev team published three libraries, one of them - Ginger-lib, a general-purpose zkSNARK library, available at GitHub: https://github.com/ZencashOfficial/ginger-lib Sidechain Beta release planned by the end of April ZEN:RUB and ZEN:USDT pairs added at Bitexbook.com exchange New merch available at Horizen Store: https://store.horizen.global/ Horizen is an exciting cryptocurrency with a solid technological foundation, unique capabilities, an active and capable team, ongoing funding for improvements, and a large, positive, encouraging community. ZEN is available and trading now on Bittrex, Binance, Changelly, and more, has wallets available that implement advanced private transaction and messaging capability and has a strong roadmap. The goal of Horizen is to create a usable private cryptocurrency operating on a resilient system for people and businesses worldwide, enabling the daily use of private transactions, messaging, and publishing everywhere, all the time. Store: https://store.horizen.global Merchant Directory: https://horizen.global/merchants Horizen Nodes: https://horizen.global/zennodes Horizen Academy: https://academy.horizen.global/ Roadmap: https://goo.gl/eiyDx8 Reference: Horizen Website – https://www.horizen.global Horizen Blog – https://blog.zencash.com Horizen Discord - https://discord.gg/SuaMBTb Horizen Github – https://github.com/ZencashOfficial Horizen Forum – https://forum.horizen.global/ Horizen Twitter – https://twitter.com/horizenglobal Horizen Telegram – https://t.me/zencash Horizen on Bitcointalk – https://goo.gl/5vicqP Horizen YouTube Channel – https://www.youtube.com/c/Horizen/ Horizen Facebook Page – https://www.facebook.com/horizenglobal/ Horizen Blog on Medium – https://medium.com/zencash Buy or Sell Horizen Horizen on CoinMarketCap – https://goo.gl/4bKmRz

Update from Horizen team hosted by: Co-founder and Team Lead - Rob Viglione (@finpunk), Rolf Versluis (@blockops), Rosario Pabst (@zench1ck) March 26, 2020, Weekly team updates from the following divisions: * Engineering * Node network * Product/UX * Customer service/Helpdesk * Legal * Business development * Marketing * CEO closing thoughts * 5 mins Q&A Dev team publishing 3 libraries by the end of March, one of them - ginger-lib, a general-purpose zkSNARK library; Sidechain Beta release planned by the end of April. Horizen is an exciting cryptocurrency with a solid technological foundation, unique capabilities, an active and capable team, ongoing funding for improvements, and a large, positive, encouraging community. ZEN is available and trading now on Bittrex, Binance, Changelly, and more, has wallets available that implement advanced private transaction and messaging capability and has a strong roadmap. The goal of Horizen is to create a usable private cryptocurrency operating on a resilient system for people and businesses worldwide, enabling the daily use of private transactions, messaging, and publishing everywhere, all the time. Store: https://store.horizen.global Merchant Directory: https://horizen.global/merchants Horizen Nodes: https://horizen.global/zennodes Horizen Academy: https://academy.horizen.global/ Roadmap: https://goo.gl/eiyDx8 Reference: Horizen Website – https://www.horizen.global Horizen Blog – https://blog.zencash.com Horizen Discord - https://discord.gg/SuaMBTb Horizen Github – https://github.com/ZencashOfficial Horizen Forum – https://forum.horizen.global/ Horizen Twitter – https://twitter.com/horizenglobal Horizen Telegram – https://t.me/zencash Horizen on Bitcointalk – https://goo.gl/5vicqP Horizen YouTube Channel – https://www.youtube.com/c/Horizen/ Horizen Facebook Page – https://www.facebook.com/horizenglobal/ Horizen Blog on Medium – https://medium.com/zencash Buy or Sell Horizen Horizen on CoinMarketCap – https://goo.gl/4bKmRz

In this week's episode of the podcast, we catch up with Alex Glukowski (https://twitter.com/gluk64) of Matter Labs (https://twitter.com/the_matter_labs) to hear about zkSync (https://zksync.io/#overview), the latest iteration of their zkRollup implementation built to be a scaling and privacy engine for Ethereum. We also touch on the Redshift protocol, a new transparent zkSNARK system that emerged as a result of work on this system. Here are a few links that we mention: Previous episode on Matter Labs (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/72) ZkSync and Redshift (https://medium.com/matter-labs/introducing-zk-sync-the-missing-link-to-mass-adoption-of-ethereum-14c9cea83f58) REDSHIFT: Transparent SNARKs from List Polynomial Commitment IOPs (https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/1400.pdf) Hotstuff paper (https://www.cs.unc.edu/~reiter/papers/2019/PODC.pdf) Give the Zero Knowledge Podcast some feedback. Whether you are a long-time listener or new to the show, we would love to hear from you! Please share your feedback with us here: https://forms.gle/LtQQyKJV6r7LrSND7 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 up with us on Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYWsYz5cKw4wZ9Mpe4kuM_g) Support our Gitcoin Grant (https://gitcoin.co/grants/329/zero-knowledge-podcast-2) Support us on the ZKP Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/zeroknowledge) Or directly here: ETH: 0xC0FFEE1B5083230a5154F55f253B6b6ae8F29B1a BTC: 1cafekGa3podM4fBxPSQc6RCEXQNTK8Zz ZEC: t1R2bujRF3Hzte9ALHpMJvY8t5kb9ut9SpQ

In this week’s episode, we catchup with Alan Szepieniec, a researchers at Nervos and co-author of the Supersonics (https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/1229.pdf) paper & the Marvellous family of Hash Functions (https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/426.pdf) (which specify the Vision/Rescue cyphers). We chat about his past work in cryptography, how the Supersonics paper came to be, and dive into the new generation of hash functions emerging, including the Marvelous universe. For more info, please have a look at these resources and past episodes! - Design of Symmetric-Key Primitives for Advanced Cryptographic Protocols (the Marvellous (Vision/Rescue) paper) (https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/426.pdf) - Transparent SNARKs from DARK Compilers (Supersonic paper) (https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/1229.pdf) - On a Generalization of Substitution-Permutation Networks: The HADES Design Strategy (https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/1107.pdf) - Competing designs for arithmetization-friendly hash functions - Starkad and Poseidon: New Hash Functions for Zero Knowledge Proof Systems (https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/458.pdf) - MiMC https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/492.pdf and attack https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/951.pdf - Jarvis and Friday, the first members of the Marvellous universe (may they rest in peace) https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/1098.pdf - ... and the Groebner basis attack that killed them: https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/419.pdf And here are some of the previous ZKP episodes that we mention: - Ben Fisch Episode (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/88) - Benedikt Bunz Episode (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/40) - Joseph Bonneau Episode (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/103) - Eli Ben-Sasson Episode (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/96) 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) Support our Gitcoin Grant (https://gitcoin.co/grants/38/zero-knowledge-podcast) Support us on the ZKPatreon (https://www.patreon.com/zeroknowledge) Or directly here: ETH: 0xC0FFEE1B5083230a5154F55f253B6b6ae8F29B1a BTC: 1cafekGa3podM4fBxPSQc6RCEXQNTK8Zz ZEC: t1R2bujRF3Hzte9ALHpMJvY8t5kb9ut9SpQ

In this week’s episode, we welcome Ariel Gabizon, previously a Electric Coin Company (Zcash) engineer and now a cryptographer working on zero knowledge constructions for Filecoin (https://filecoin.io/). Ariel has worked closely with some of the most exciting projects and researchers pushing the boundaries on zero knowledge research. He is also the person who discovered the Zcash bug (along with Sean Bowe and Zooko). In this episode, we explore his journey into the space, what inspires him, and what exciting new paradigms he is exploring today! Here are some of the articles and topics he mentions: * Algebraic Methods for Interactive Proof Systems (https://users.cs.fiu.edu/~giri/teach/5420/f01/LundIPS.pdf) * ECC (Zcash) Vulnerability Blog post (https://electriccoin.co/blog/zcash-counterfeiting-vulnerability-successfully-remediated/) * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BernhardRiemann * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemannzetafunction * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraicfunctionfield * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HelmutHasse * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasseprinciple * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AndréWeil Thank you to our sponsor this week StarkWare (https://starkware.co) StarkWare will be presenting the StarkWare Sessions (https://starkware.co/starkware-sessions/) - on Sept 16th in Tel Aviv. The event will bring together some of the brightest minds in zero knowledge research from both the academic and application spheres. Topics that will be discussed are self-custodial trading, STARKs for Layer 1, STARK-friendly hash functions and other cool things you can do with STARK proofs. Use the code Zkpodcast for 20% off the tickets - > https://starkware.co/starkware-sessions/ 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 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 ZEC: t1R2bujRF3Hzte9ALHpMJvY8t5kb9ut9SpQ

In this week's episode, we sit down with Izaak Meckler & Evan Shapiro from O(1) Labs to discuss Coda, a blockchain using recursive composition of zkSNARKs to eliminate history. We discuss recursive zkSNARKs generally, what a recursive zkSNARK construction blockchain would look like, and the challenges in implementing this sophisticated scaling solution. To find out more about the project and some of the resources mentioned in the episode, please have a look at the links below: Coda on Twitter: https://twitter.com/codaprotocol?lang=en Coda on Github: https://github.com/o1-labs Scalable Zero Knowledge via Cycles of Elliptic Curves https://eprint.iacr.org/2014/595 Incrementally Verifiable Computation or Knowledge Implies Time/Space Efficiency https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/4074/97eeb99a9341714e9db05b57f500270139d7.pdf Thank you to our sponsor POA Network (https://poa.network/) - for more information about their ERC20 to ERC20 TokenBridge, check out the POA Network repo: github.com/poanetwork/token-bridge Follow Zero Knowledge on Twitter - @zeroknowledgefm (https://twitter.com/zeroknowledgefm) Support us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/zeroknowledge Or directly here: ETH: 0xC0FFEE1B5083230a5154F55f253B6b6ae8F29B1a BTC: 1cafekGa3podM4fBxPSQc6RCEXQNTK8Zz

One of the key scalability challenges with public cryptocurrency blockchains is that their size grows linearly with the number of transactions. Mature blockchains such as Bitcoin and Ethereum contain >170GB and >1 TB of historical data respectively. New nodes joining these chains need to download this data and verify it in order to become a “full node”. The number of full nodes is a key measure of decentralization, and difficulty becoming a full node translates into future centralization. In this episode, we are joined by the duo of Evan Shapiro and Izaak Meckler, CEO and CTO at O(1) Labs respectively. O(1) Labs is a pioneering company that uses zkSNARK technology in order to construct a cryptocurrency blockchain, called Coda, that solves the blockchain size scalability bottleneck. New nodes joining the Coda network will be able to trustlessly boot up in under a minute by verifying cryptographic proofs that attest to the validity of the current chain. This technology has great potential to enable decentralization, and for one blockchain to be a light client of another blockchain. Topics covered in this episode: Scalability challenges of current cryptocurrencies Background on O(1) Labs and their mission statement How Coda uses succinct computational integrity technology (zkSNARKs) to enable further decentralization of blockchains Snarky – a domain specific language for zkSNARK computations Current state of Coda and roadmap Episode links: Coda protocol website Coda Whitepaper Presentation on Snarkly by Izzak Meckler zkSNARKs in a nutshell by Christian Reitweissner zkSNARKs in a nutshell by Vitalik Buterin Coda presentation at hack.summit("blockchain") 2018 This episode is hosted by Meher Roy and Sunny Aggarwal. Show notes and listening options: epicenter.tv/243