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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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Episode 248: Revisiting FHE with Rand Hindi from Zama

Zero Knowledge ·

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

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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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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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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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1:16:30

Episode 238: Aurora and Near with Alex and Illia

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2022/07/13

In this week’s episode, Anna (https://twitter.com/annarrose) talks with Illia (https://twitter.com/ilblackdragon) from Near (https://twitter.com/NEARProtocol) and Alex (https://twitter.com/alexauroradev) from Aurora (https://twitter.com/auroraisnear) about the work they did that lead them to the Near ecosystem and what the connection is between the Aurora project and Near. They also cover what’s new at Near since the last time Illia and Anna spoke, Aurora+, the Rainbow Bridge, and future plans with

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1:06:47

Episode 237: Exploring ZK Research with Jens Groth

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2022/07/06

In this week’s episode, Anna (https://twitter.com/annarrose) and Kobi (https://twitter.com/kobigurk) chat with guest Jens Groth (https://twitter.com/JensGroth3), Director of Research at DFINITY (https://twitter.com/dfinity) and previously a professor in the Department of Computer Science at UCL. Jens Groth is a leading ZK researcher and is behind a number of advances in the field of ZK in the last few years such as the popular proving system Groth16. The conversation covers his earlier career, the

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1:08:18

Episode 236: Aztec Connect and Private DeFi with...

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2022/06/29

In this week’s episode, Anna (https://twitter.com/annarrose) checks in with Aztec, a ZK-based privacy L2 project. She speaks with Joe Andrews (https://twitter.com/jaosef) and Lead Engineer, Charles Julian. They discuss some of the team’s most important ZK research and implementations such as Plonk and how bringing privacy to Ethereum could truly change the way we do DeFi. They also discuss Aztec Connect and how it relates to zk.money (https://zk.money/), the Aztec roadmap with future projects like

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1:23:36

Episode 235: Mathematical Journeys & Sake with...

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2022/06/22

In this week’s episode, we throwback to a sake-fueled conversation between Anna (https://twitter.com/annarrose) and returning guest Guillermo Angeris (https://twitter.com/GuilleAngeris), recorded in April during DevConnect in Amsterdam. They cover Guillermo’s personal journey into math, math history in general, how to bring more people into the space and the potential opportunities and downsides of bringing some kinds of math mainstream. It is a bit of different one, but hope you enjoy! Here are

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1:03:22

Episode 234: zkEVM with Scroll’s Ye Zhang and Haichen...

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2022/06/15

In this week’s episode, Anna (https://twitter.com/annarrose) and Tarun (https://twitter.com/tarunchitra) chat with Ye Zhang and Haichen Shen, the founders of Scroll - a native zkEVM Layer 2 Solution for Ethereum. They cover the founding of Scroll, the problems they aim to solve with their native zkEVM layer 2 solution, why scaling Ethereum is important, the philosophy of their zkEVM, and how this differs from other proposals as well as potential use cases or products that could benefit from the

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1:21:55

Episode 233: Through the Wormhole with Jump Crypto

Zero Knowledge ·

2022/06/08

In this week’s episode, Anna (https://twitter.com/annarrose) chats with Rahul Magani (https://twitter.com/rahulmaganti_), the Applied ZK Lead at Jump Crypto (https://twitter.com/jump_), and Hendrik Hofstadt (https://twitter.com/hendrikhofstadt), Project Lead at (Wormhole Crypto)[https://twitter.com/wormholecrypto]. They look at how Wormhole first came to be, the challenges of interoperability, the design decisions they made in balancing security, speed and functionality, the risks facing these types

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1:09:33

Episode 232: Cutting Edge ZK Research with Mary Maller

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2022/06/01

In this week’s episode, Anna (https://twitter.com/annarrose) and co-host Kobi Gurkan (https://twitter.com/kobigurk) chat with Mary Maller (https://marymaller.com), a ZK Researcher at the Ethereum Foundation. They cover Mary’s journey into cryptography, her work on trusted setups, universal SNARKs and Plookup tables. They also discuss the work she and Kobi did on aggregatable DKGs, what working on research at the EF is like and more. Here are some links for this episode: * Caulk: Lookup Arguments

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Episode 231: Argent’s Smart Contract Wallet Design...

Zero Knowledge ·

2022/05/25

In this week’s episode, Anna (https://twitter.com/annarrose) chats with Julien Niset (https://twitter.com/jniset), co-founder of Argent (https://twitter.com/argentHQ), about crypto wallets. They explore the history of wallet landscape, the interfaces we use for the decentralized web, the importance of account abstraction, smart contract wallets and Argent’s bet on ZK rollups. Here are some links for this episode: * Episode 24: Blockchain UX and the UXUnConf (https://zeroknowledge.fm/24-2/) * Argent

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1:21:13

Episode 230: Designing Optimistic Interoperability...

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2022/05/18

In this week’s episode, Anna (https://twitter.com/annarrose) catches up with Anna Caroll (https://twitter.com/annascarroll) and James Prestwich (https://twitter.com/_prestwich) from Nomad (https://twitter.com/nomadxyz_). Together they explore the Nomad optimistic interoperability solution, how it first was developed, what lessons it takes from previous attempts at interoperability and cross-chain bridging, how the system works and more. Here are some links for this episode: * Ep 118: Tarun and James

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