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Zero Knowledge

Zero Knowledge Podcast

Zero Knowledge is a podcast which goes deep into the tech that will power the emerging decentralised web and the community building this. Covering the latest in zero knowledge research and applications, the open web as well as future technologies and paradigms that promise to change the way we interact — and transact — with one another online. Zero Knowledge is hosted by Anna Rose Follow the show at @ZeroKnowledgefm (https://twitter.com/zeroknowledgefm) or @AnnaRRose (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose)

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1:06:37

Episode 297: Quantum Cryptography Part 2 with Or Sattath

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2023/11/01

In this week’s episode, Anna (https://twitter.com/annarrose) and Nico (https://twitter.com/nico_mnbl) interview Or Sattath (https://twitter.com/or_sattath), Assistant Professor at the Ben-Gurion (https://cris.bgu.ac.il/en/persons/or-sattath) University in the Computer Science department. This is the 2nd episode with Or on this show, continuing the conversation around Quantum Cryptography. This time, he describes how we can transition from a pre-quantum to a post-quantum environment, looking at

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1:02:13

Episode 296: Zeth, Bonsai and RISC Zero with Brian...

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2023/10/25

In this week’s episode, Anna (https://twitter.com/annarrose) and Nico (https://twitter.com/nico_mnbl) catch up with Brian Retford (https://twitter.com/BrianRetford) and Jeremy Bruestle (https://twitter.com/BruestleJeremy) from RISC Zero (https://www.risczero.com/). They delve into the current status of the project, breaking down the components of the stack, from the RISC Zero zkVM leveraging the RISC-V instruction set architecture to the Bonsai proving service and their new zkEVM, Zeth. They also

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1:17:27

Episode 295: Return to MPC with Nigel Smart

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2023/10/18

In this week’s episode, Anna Rose (https://twitter.com/annarrose) is joined by Nigel Smart (https://twitter.com/SmartCryptology), Professor at KU Leuven (https://www.kuleuven.be/english/kuleuven) and Chief Academic Officer at Zama (https://www.zama.ai/) to discuss the advancements in MPC over recent years. Nigel unpacks core components of MPC systems, including garbled circuits, secret sharing, and FHE. They discuss both systems-level applications like DKGs and Threshold Signature Schemes and actual

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1:06:45

Episode 294: Succinct Proofs and Linear Algebra with...

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2023/10/11

In this week’s episode, host Anna Rose (https://twitter.com/annarrose) and co-host Kobi Gurkan (https://twitter.com/kobigurk) chat with Alex Evans (https://twitter.com/alexhevans) and Guillermo Angeris (https://twitter.com/GuilleAngeris) about their new research paper on Succinct Proofs in Linear Algebra (https://angeris.github.io/papers/zk-linalg.pdf). The paper introduces a framework that simplifies the construction of succinct proofs and offers a toolkit of useful techniques. Their conversation

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Episode 293: Exploring Security of ZK Systems with...

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2023/10/04

On this week’s episode, Anna Rose (https://twitter.com/annarrose) interviews Michał Zając (https://twitter.com/mpfzajac) and Albert Garreta (https://twitter.com/0xAlbertG) from the Nethermind (https://nethermind.io/) team. They discuss the origin story of Nethermind and its role in the ecosystem today. They also delve into the cryptography research being done at Nethermind, including their work on proving the security of FRI-based protocols, identifying security issues with Fiat-Shamir, exploring

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1:12:01

Episode 292: State of ZK - Live at zkSummit10!

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2023/09/27

In this special live episode, recorded at zkSummit10, host Anna Rose (https://twitter.com/annarrose) chats with regular co-hosts Tarun Chitra (https://twitter.com/tarunchitra), Guillermo Angeris (https://twitter.com/GuilleAngeris) and Nico Mohnblatt (https://twitter.com/nico_mnbl) about the state of ZK today. They cover how the term ‘ZK’ has evolved, market trends that are relevant to the ZK community today and ZK ‘crossovers’ like ZKML or ZKFHE and their current status in the industry. They also

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Bonus: zkSummit10 is a wrap + ZK Hack Istanbul

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2023/09/22

ZK Summit happened on Sept 20th check out the video -> https://www.youtube.com/@zeroknowledgefm Check the ZK Jobs Board -> https://jobsboard.zeroknowledge.fm/ ZK Hack Istanbul -> https://www.zkistanbul.com/

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1:04:12

Episode 291: MEV, Mechanism Design & the Censorship...

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2023/09/06

On this week’s episode, Anna Rose (https://twitter.com/annarrose) and Tarun Chitra (https://twitter.com/tarunchitra) chat with Mallesh Pai (https://twitter.com/malleshpai), Associate Professor of Economics at Rice University (https://profiles.rice.edu/faculty/mallesh-pai). They explore mechanism design in an economic context and Mallesh’s work around MEV topics - specifically on censorship in an MEV context and within his Special Mechanism Group

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1:07:45

Episode 290: Exploring, Teaching and Auditing ZK with...

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2023/08/30

This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/annarrose) and Guillermo (https://twitter.com/GuilleAngeris) chat with David Wong (https://twitter.com/cryptodavidw), author of the Real-World Cryptography book (https://www.manning.com/books/real-world-cryptography?a_aid=Realworldcrypto&a_bid=ad500e09), and a cofounder [zksecurity.xyz]((https://www.zksecurity.xyz/) - an auditing firm focused on Zero Knowledge technology. They chat about what first got him interested in cryptography, his early work as a security

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1:05:48

Episode 289: Penumbra Catch Up with Finch, Erwan and Jen

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2023/08/23

This week, host Anna Rose (https://twitter.com/annarrose) chats with Finch (https://twitter.com/plaidfinch), Erwan (https://twitter.com/erwanor) and Jen (https://twitter.com/redshiftzero) from the Penumbra (https://twitter.com/penumbrazone) team. They share an update about Penumbra and discuss how this zk-powered project works under the hood. Specifically, how Penumbra harnesses ZK to offer new paradigms for staking, voting and trading. Here’s some additional links for this episode: Episode 247:

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1:03:03

Episode 288: Quantum Cryptography with Or Sattath

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2023/08/16

In this week’s episode, Anna Rose (https://twitter.com/annarrose) and Kobi Gurkan (https://twitter.com/kobigurk) chat with Or Sattath (https://twitter.com/or_sattath), Assistant Professor at the Ben-Gurion (https://cris.bgu.ac.il/en/persons/or-sattath) University in the Computer Science department. They deep dive into Or’s work on Quantum Cryptography. They begin with definitions of Quantum Computing and Quantum Cryptography, covering what these will mean for existing cryptography. They also explore

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Bonus: Apply to zk10!

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2023/08/09

We are taking a pause on the show this week, but do be sure to get your application in for the upcoming Zero Knowledge Summit - zk10. Happening in London on Sept 20 - spots are limited! Apply here -> https://www.zksummit.com/

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1:11:49

Episode 287: Gnosis catch-up with Stefan George

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2023/08/02

This week, Anna Rose (https://twitter.com/annarrose) chats with Stefan George (https://twitter.com/stefandgeorge) from Gnosis (https://twitter.com/GnosisDAO). They start with an update on the projects that have spun out of Gnosis - Safe, Zodiac, CoW Swap - as well as older experiments that the team had incubated. They then cover the evolution of Gnosis Chain from its origin as xDai, discuss the new aggregate bridge architecture Hashi and explore Gnosis Pay - an on-chain p2p payments product that

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1:05:35

Episode 286: Paris 2023 Recap with Uma, Zaki and Tarun

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2023/07/26

This week, host Anna Rose (https://twitter.com/annarrose) and guests Uma Roy (https://twitter.com/pumatheuma), Zaki Manian (https://twitter.com/zmanian) and Tarun Chitra (https://twitter.com/tarunchitra) recap all things EthCC Paris (https://www.ethcc.io/). This impromptu chat takes a look back at the topics, talks, parties and goings-on of the Paris week and what really caught their attention. Expect some spicy takes, offtopic rambles, inside scoops and more. Here’s some additional links for this

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1:14:43

Episode 285: Intents with Chris Goes from Anoma

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2023/07/19

This week, host Anna Rose (https://twitter.com/annarrose) and co-host Tarun Chitra (https://twitter.com/tarunchitra) catch up with Chris Goes (https://twitter.com/cwgoes) from Heliax (https://heliax.dev/team), the team behind Anoma (https://anoma.net/) and Namada (https://namada.net/). They start with a quick retrospective about IBC, a project he formerly worked on, and how the protocol has evolved since it launched. They dive into the concept of 'intents', exploring their origin, evolution, and

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1:19:31

Episode 284: Using Formal Verification on ZK Systems...

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2023/07/12

This week Anna Rose (https://twitter.com/annarrose) chats with Jon Stephens (https://twitter.com/FormallyJon), Computer Science Ph.D. student in the UToPiA group (https://utopia.cs.utexas.edu/) at UT Austin and co-founder of Veridise (https://veridise.com/). Veridise is a blockchain auditing firm that audits smart contracts and ZK systems. They discuss what led Jon to work on system security, what tools are available to test the security of ZK systems and the process of performing formal

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Episode 283: BabyAGI, Agents and Cutting-edge AI with...

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2023/07/05

This week, host Anna Rose (https://twitter.com/annarrose) and co-host Kobi Gurkan (https://twitter.com/kobigurk) chat with Yohei Nakajima (https://twitter.com/yoheinakajima), General Partner at Untapped Capital (https://www.untapped.vc/) and creator of BabyAGI (https://babyagi.org/). They cover a wide variety of topics from the world of AGIs and agents to building no-code software in public. They kick-off with a chat about how Yohei’s interest in NFTs led him down the AI ‘rabbit hole’ and how he

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1:06:43

Episode 282: Error Correcting Codes & Information...

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2023/06/28

This week, host Anna Rose (https://twitter.com/annarrose) and Nico Mohnblatt (https://twitter.com/nico_mnbl) chat with Ron Rothblum (https://csaws.cs.technion.ac.il/~rothblum/), Professor of Computer Science at Technion. They explore information theory and ZK, diving into the weeds on multiple topics including error correcting codes, FRI, FFTs, Reed-Solomon encoding, Fiat-Shamir and more. Here’s some additional links for this episode: Fiat-Shamir via List-Recoverable Codes (or: Parallel Repetition

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1:04:15

Episode 281: Exploring Lurk: a New Language for...

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2023/06/21

In this week’s episode, host Anna Rose (https://twitter.com/annarrose) chats with Chhi'mèd Künzang (https://research.protocol.ai/authors/chhimed-kunzang/) and François Garillot (https://www.garillot.net/) from Lurk Labs (https://lurk-lab.com/) about all things Lurk, Lisp and zk languages. They discuss the history of the Lurk project, from its beginnings with Protocol Labs (the team that built Filecoin), to its emergence as a Turing-complete programming language for recursive zkSNARKs. They discuss

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1:09:28

Episode 280: ProtoStar with Benedikt Bünz and Binyi...

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2023/06/14

In this week’s episode, Anna Rose (https://twitter.com/annarrose) dives back into accumulation schemes with Benedikt Bünz (https://twitter.com/benediktbuenz) and Binyi Chen (https://twitter.com/Charles_Chen533) from Espresso Systems (https://espressosys.com/). They discuss ProtoStar and how it compares to works such as Nova and HyperNova, as well as explore some definitions for commonly used terms in the accumulation literature. Here’s some additional links for this episode: Espresso Systems CAPE

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