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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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1:12:34

Episode 257: Proof of Solvency with Kostas Chalkias

Zero Knowledge ·

2022/12/07

This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/annarrose) explores the topic of proof of solvency with Kostas Chalkias (https://twitter.com/kostascrypto), co-founder and chief of Cryptography at MystenLabs (https://github.com/MystenLabs). They cover Kostas’ background in Cryptography and explore his work on Proof of Reserves, otherwise known as Proof of Solvency. They review past Proof of Solvency models using ZKPs and look at the protocols that major centralized exchanges are currently using. Then they dive

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1:11:06

Episode 256: New ZK Use Cases with Dan Boneh

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2022/11/30

On this week’s episode, Anna (https://twitter.com/annarrose) and Kobi Gurkan (https://twitter.com/kobigurk) chat with Dan Boneh (https://twitter.com/danboneh), Professor of Computer Science at Stanford (https://cs.stanford.edu/) and Director of the Stanford Center for Blockchain Research. They cover an expanse of topics: from how strides have been made within the development of zkEVMs to how trusted set ups could be integrated into the blockchain itself. This episode covers open problems in ZK

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1:06:12

Episode 255: Verifying Consensus On-Chain with Succinct

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2022/11/23

In this week’s episode, Anna (https://twitter.com/annarrose) and Tarun (https://twitter.com/tarunchitra) speak with Succinct Labs (https://www.succinct.xyz/). Guests Uma Roy (https://twitter.com/pumatheuma) and John Guibas (https://mobile.twitter.com/jtguibas) discuss their interest in ZK, their work with 0xparc and the goals of Succinct Labs - that is to provide proof of consensus through SNARK-based light clients. Acting similar to IBC, but in the Ethereum context, we discuss the challenge of

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1:08:10

Episode 254: Matt Green on bringing ZK into the wild...

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2022/11/16

In this week’s episode, Anna (https://twitter.com/annarrose) and Josh Cincinnati (https://twitter.com/acityinohio) chat with Matt Green (https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green), a cryptographer and professor at Johns Hopkins University (https://isi.jhu.edu/). They explore Matt’s background in security, blockchain and privacy technologies. He shares his thoughts on early ZK blockchain research, the founding of Zcash, growth in the ZK space, how the industry is ready for tangible use-cases and navigating

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1:08:27

Episode 253: A look into Namada and Anoma with Awa...

Zero Knowledge ·

2022/11/09

In this week's episode, Anna (https://twitter.com/annarrose) speaks with Awa Sun Yin (https://awasunyin.com/), co-founder of Anoma (https://anoma.net/) & Namada (https://namada.net/). They discuss her background in crypto analytics, her shift to working on infrastructure and privacy tech, and how the Anoma project came to be. Awa introduces us to the soon to launch Namada network and then describes the various cryptographic pieces that the Anoma team has been developing. They discuss how these fit

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1:16:48

Episode 252: From Wireless to Blockchains with Pramod...

Zero Knowledge ·

2022/11/02

In this week’s episode, Anna (https://twitter.com/annarrose) and Tarun (https://twitter.com/tarunchitra) chat with Pramod Viswanath (https://ece.princeton.edu/people/pramod-viswanath), Professor of Engineering at Princeton (https://ece.princeton.edu/) and co-founder of Witness Chain (https://witnesschain.com/). They discuss Pramod’s early work on wireless networks and how this type of research was brought to market at the time. They also cover topics such as the introduction of adversarial thinking

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1:06:03

Episode 251: Exploring RISC Zero with Brian Retford...

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2022/10/26

In this week’s episode, Anna (https://twitter.com/annarrose) and Guillermo (https://twitter.com/GuilleAngeris) chat with Brian Retford (https://mobile.twitter.com/brianretford) and Jeremy Bruestle (https://github.com/jbruestle) from RISC Zero (https://www.risczero.com/). They discuss their previous work in cloud infrastructure and how ZK offered unique solutions to long standing scaling problems. They cover topics like RISC-V, building VMs, and how RISC Zero aims to build a system which could

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1:17:25

Episode 250: What's the Deal with Hash Functions?

Zero Knowledge ·

2022/10/19

In this week’s episode, Anna (https://twitter.com/annarrose) and Kobi Gurkan (https://twitter.com/kobigurk) speak with Dmitry Khovratovich (https://twitter.com/khovr), researcher at the Ethereum Foundation (http://ethereum.foundation/), Dusk Network (https://dusk.network), and ABDK Consulting (https://www.abdk.consulting) and JP Aumasson (https://twitter.com/veorq) CSO at Taurus (https://www.taurushq.com/). This episode compares symmetric and asymmetric cryptography as well as a deep dive into hash

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Episode 249: Impact of Tornado Cash: a Builders...

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2022/10/12

In this week’s episode, Anna (https://twitter.com/annarrose) and Martin Köppelmann (https://twitter.com/koeppelmann), Co-Founder of Gnosis (https://twitter.com/GnosisChain) discuss the OFAC sanctions against Tornado Cash and the impact this has had on builders in the community. They specifically focus on how the Tornado action helped reveal centralizing forces in Ethereum as well as the need for decentralization. Here are some additional links for this episode: * Gnosis Linktree

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Episode 248: Revisiting FHE with Rand Hindi from Zama

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2022/10/05

In this week’s episode, Anna (https://twitter.com/annarrose) revisits the topic of FHE with Rand Hindi (https://twitter.com/randhindi), CEO at Zama (https://www.zama.ai/). FHE stands for Fully Homomorphic Encryption, a cryptosystem that allows for computation to occur on encrypted inputs. They discuss the FHE landscape, what specific use cases it is ideal for, where the technology is at and how FHE differs from MPC and ZK. They also explore some of the nuances of the different types of approaches

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1:23:31

Episode 247: Exploring Penumbra with Henry de Valence

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2022/09/28

In this week’s episode, Anna (https://twitter.com/annarrose) and Guillermo (https://twitter.com/guilleangeris) catch up with Henry de Valence (https://twitter.com/hdevalence) from Penumbra (https://twitter.com/penumbrazone). They discuss his thoughts on requirements for adoption of privacy systems and how these led to him to develop Penumbra. They explore how Penumbra aims to use privacy features not as ‘nice to haves' within the system, but rather as essential components that offer a new paradigm

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1:06:44

Episode 246: Adversarial Machine Learning Research...

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2022/09/21

This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/annarrose) and Tarun (https://twitter.com/tarunchitra) chat with Florian Tramèr (https://twitter.com/florian_tramer), Assistant Professor at ETH Zurich (https://ethz.ch/en.html). They discuss his earlier work on side channel attacks on privacy blockchains, as well as his academic focus on Machine Learning (ML) and adversarial research. They define some key ML terms, tease out some of the nuances of ML training and models, chat zkML and other privacy environments

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1:24:00

Episode 245: Sanctions against Tornado Cash: a Legal...

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2022/09/14

In this episode, Anna (https://twitter.com/annarrose) explores the topic of the recent OFAC sanctions against Tornado Cash with 2 interviews: One is with TuongVy Le (https://twitter.com/TuongvyLe12), Head of Regulatory and Policy at Bain Capital Crypto (https://twitter.com/baincapcrypto), who previously worked at the SEC and the other is with Michael Mosier (https://twitter.com/M_Mosier_), General Council at Espresso Systems (https://twitter.com/EspressoSys), who used to work at the Treasury, within

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1:22:40

Episode 244: Journey to Blockchain with David Tse

Zero Knowledge ·

2022/09/07

In this episode, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) and Guillermo (https://twitter.com/guilleangeris) chat with David Tse (https://twitter.com/dntse) about his career and research spanning from early Networking, Mobile Networking, P2P, all the way up to his work on formalizing Blockchain systems. Along the way, they touch on topics like 'The Price of Anarchy', David’s Prism work, his work with the Ethereum Foundation and his new project Babylon. Here are some links for this episode: * Episode

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1:16:39

Episode 243: Dive Back into MEV with Alex Stokes and...

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2022/08/31

In this week's episode, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) and Tarun (https://twitter.com/tarunchitra) revisit the topic of MEV with Chris Hager (https://twitter.com/metachris) from Flashbots (https://docs.flashbots.net/) & Alex Stokes (https://twitter.com/ralexstokes) from the Ethereum Foundation. In this episode, they tease out more of the nuances around MEV and how the field around it has evolved in the last year or so. The team explores what the MEV space could look like after the Merge, the

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1:15:19

Episode 242: Halo 2 with Daira Hopwood and Str4d

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2022/08/24

In this week’s episode, Anna (https://twitter.com/annarrose) explores Halo 2 with Daira Hopwood (https://twitter.com/feministPLT) and Str4d (https://twitter.com/str4d), cryptographic engineers at Electric Coin Company. They explored what new ideas Halo introduced and how Halo 2 built on these ideas, adding optimisations such as adding Plonk-ish arithmetization to take what was a breakthrough to a production ready proving system. This episode was recorded at Zcon3 in Vegas. Here are some links for

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1:07:41

Episode 241: Deconstructing Bridges with Vaibhav...

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2022/08/17

In this week’s episode, Anna (https://twitter.com/annarrose) chats with Vaibhav Chellani (https://twitter.com/vaibhavchellani), a bridge builder and the co-founder of Socket (https://twitter.com/SocketDotTech). They explore what makes up the components of a bridge, the types of bridges, and then look at their framework for analysing the security trade-offs of different bridge architectures. This is an important topic, since at present, there are more and more bridges coming online to connect all the

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56:43

Episode 240: Composable Privacy with Manta Network

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2022/08/10

In this week’s episode, Anna (https://twitter.com/annarrose) and Kobi (https://twitter.com/kobigurk) chat with Shumo Chu (https://twitter.com/shumochu), co-founder of Manta Network (https://twitter.com/MantaNetwork). They discuss the origin story of the project and how they aim to bring privacy to web3. They explore the unique accessibility that Polkadot parachains enable, the work they do on building ZK tooling and libraries for the general ZK community. They then take a look at their plans for a

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1:03:25

Episode 239: IST and Designing Stablecoins in Cosmos

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2022/08/03

In this week’s episode, Anna (https://twitter.com/annarrose) catches up with Zaki Manian (https://twitter.com/zmanian) from Sommelier (https://twitter.com/sommfinance) and Dean Tribble (https://twitter.com/deantribble) from Agoric (https://twitter.com/agoric). They check-in with the latest project news, recap about the UST collapse, and look into IST - Inter Stable Token - a project by the Agoric team that aims to become the Cosmos native multi collateral stablecoin. Here are some links for this

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Bonus: Apply to zkSummit 8

Zero Knowledge ·

2022/07/29

No full episode this week. Just a quick message to let you know about the upcoming zkSummit 8 - happening in Berlin Sept 15 2022. Apply here: https://www.zksummit.com/ If you like what we do: * Find all our links here! @ZeroKnowledge | Linktree (https://linktr.ee/zeroknowledge) * Subscribe to our podcast newsletter (https://zeroknowledge.substack.com) * Follow us on Twitter @zeroknowledgefm (https://twitter.com/zeroknowledgefm) * Head to the ZK Community Forum

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