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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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1:22:26

Episode 225: Dark Forest and 0xPARC with Gubsheep

Zero Knowledge ·

2022/04/13

This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/annarrose) catches up with Gubsheep (https://twitter.com/gubsheep) from 0xPARC. They chat about Dark Forest – a decentralized zk-based RTS game, built on Ethereum. They cover how it has evolved in the past 2 years and what’s upcoming in the Dark Forest’s community, governance and experiments. They recap the recent Gitcoin GR13 ZK Tech side round, review some moonshot ideas for ZK projects of the future and discuss potential avenues of funding in the ZK space

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1:27

Bonus: Jump into ZK

Zero Knowledge ·

2022/04/07

No full episode this week! ZKV presents Privacy in Cosmos - April 15 - is here: https://www.events.zkvalidator.com/ Zk Summit - April 21 - is here: https://www.zksummit.com/ _Note: Both are sold out, if you can't make it, let us know and keep an eye on our Youtube Channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYWsYz5cKw4wZ9Mpe4kuM_g), we will be streaming both events there! _ And do check out our linktree (https://linktr.ee/zeroknowledge) to see all the links many of our ZK Channels

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1:09:01

Episode 224: Foundry with Georgios Konstantopoulous

Zero Knowledge ·

2022/03/30

This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) & Tarun (https://twitter.com/tarunchitra) catch up with Georgios Konstantopoulos (https://twitter.com/gakonst) from Paradigm (https://twitter.com/paradigm) - a well-known OG crypto VC. They chat about his move to CTO at the firm, the team he has built and what they are working on. Then they dive into Foundry - a fast, portable, modular testing toolkit for Ethereum app dev written in Rust. They discuss the tooling landscape, why Foundry is making a bet

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58:16

Episode 223: Connecting Cosmos and Ethereum with...

Zero Knowledge ·

2022/03/23

This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) chats with Deborah Simpier (https://twitter.com/DeborahSimpier) and Justin Kilpatrick (https://twitter.com/ttk314), co-founders of Althea and the team working on Gravity Bridge. They start with the history of the Althea project and how they aim to build an open marketplace for independent entities to create their own ISPs, providing bandwidth to users in under-connected areas. They then dive into the larger topic of bridges and the work being done on

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1:10:41

Episode 222: Something Brewing with Jill Gunter and...

Zero Knowledge ·

2022/03/16

This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) and Tarun (https://twitter.com/tarunchitra) chat with Jill Gunter (https://twitter.com/jillrgunter) and Ben Fisch (https://twitter.com/benafisch) from Espresso Systems (https://www.espressosys.com/). Espresso recently went public with their Proof-of-Stake Layer 1 blockchain, developed with flexible private applications and ZK rollups in mind. In this conversation, they explore the founding and development of the project, the Espresso chain and CAPE - a

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1:10:02

Episode 221: Funding the Next Wave of Zero Knowledge...

Zero Knowledge ·

2022/03/09

This week Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) dives into the topic of funding in the ZK space. She chats with a number of different groups who are all funding zero knowledge technology from different angles. She kicks off the conversation with her colleague from ZKValidator Susannah Evans (https://twitter.com/susevans) and Gubsheep (https://twitter.com/gubsheep) from 0xPARC about the Gitcoin side round they are leading which is focused on funding the next wave of ZK tech projects. She then chats

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59:26

Episode 220: The Road to Plonky2 with Brendan and...

Zero Knowledge ·

2022/03/02

This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) chats with Brendan Farmer (https://twitter.com/_bfarmer) and Daniel Lubarov (https://twitter.com/dlubarov) from Polygon Zero, formerly known as Mir, about their early experiments with different proving systems, their work combining PLONK and Halo called Plonky - as well as the more recent combination of PLONK plus FRI (a technique that is borrowed from STARKs) which makes up Plonky2. They discuss why these innovations matter, what the new paradigms

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1:22:47

Episode 219: Scaling Ethereum with Polygon's Mihailo...

Zero Knowledge ·

2022/02/23

This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) chats with Mihailo Bjelic (https://twitter.com/MihailoBjelic) one of the co-founders of Polygon. Mihailo takes us through the evolution of Polygon and how the promise of web3 has led them to betting big on ZK-focused technologies. We learn about their approach to the two main challenges within their mission to scaling Ethereum – security and data availability; and how their suite of products aims to tackle these. Lastly, we hear about what’s next on

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1:13:30

Episode 218: Hardened JS and the Architecture of...

Zero Knowledge ·

2022/02/16

This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) chats with Dean Tribble (https://twitter.com/DeanTribble), co-founder and CEO of Agoric. Dean walks us through the landscape of programming languages and Agoric’s philosophy behind building a blockchain that has Hardened JS as its smart contract language. We hear about the two big challenges in using JavaScript in blockchain development, malleability and non-deterministic, and how Agoric addresses these. Dean explains the security implications of many

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1:34:41

Episode 217: Information Theory & Blockchain with...

Zero Knowledge ·

2022/02/09

This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) and Tarun Chitra (https://twitter.com/tarunchitra) chat with Sreeram Kannan (https://twitter.com/sreeramkannan), Associate Professor at University of Washington where he runs the UW Blockchain Lab. In this episode, they look at how information theory and blockchain intersect and map the progression of Bitcoin security. They discuss Sreeram’s early work on P2P mobile networks and how this evolved to work on consensus and fair sequencing. Sreeram takes

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1:01:00

Episode 216: A Dip into the Mempool & MEV with...

Zero Knowledge ·

2022/02/02

This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) chats with Dean Eigenmann (https://twitter.com/DeanEigenmann) and Edgar Aroutiounian (https://twitter.com/edgararout) from Project Blanc (https://projectblanc.ch/), a team building bots and developing MEV strategies. They revisit the topic of MEV, what it is and how teams like Project Blanc work to capture it. They also dive into the concept of re-orgs, accelerationism as a philosophy and get a look at what goes on in the Dark Forest. Here are some

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1:17:53

Episode 215: Charting Zodiac & DAOs with Nathan...

Zero Knowledge ·

2022/01/26

This week Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) chats with Nathan Ginnever (https://twitter.com/NathanGinnever), an applied cryptographer and contributor to Zodiac, and Auryn Macmillan (https://twitter.com/auryn_macmillan), a product manager and Solidity dev at Gnosis Guild, about the modules and components that make up Zodiac’s suite of composable DAO tooling. In the conversation, they explore the DAO landscape and the lessons they’ve gathered from earlier tools like the Gnosis Safe and SafeSnap. As

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1:16:23

Episode 214: Emin Gün Sirer on Avalanche and its...

Zero Knowledge ·

2022/01/19

This week Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) chats with Emin Gün Sirer (https://twitter.com/el33th4xor) - CEO Ava Labs and Founder of Avalanche. They chat about the experiences that led him to become interested in distributed systems research and his work as a professor at Cornell that led to the development of Avalanche. They then dig into their novel consensus mechanism which uses the sub-sampling technique, the architecture of the network with the 3 distinct components: X-Chain, C-Chain and

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53:16

Episode 213: zk-SNARKs meets Optimistic Rollup with...

Zero Knowledge ·

2022/01/12

This week Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) chats with Wanseob Lim (https://twitter.com/wanseoblim) an Applied ZKP Developer in the Privacy & Scaling Exploration Team at the Ethereum Foundation and one of the authors of the Zkopru protocol (https://zkopru.network/). They explore how Zkopru uses optimistic rollups and zero knowledge proofs to create a privacy-focused Layer 2. Wanseob walks us through the transaction process and how the protocol is built to circumvent high gas fees. We also hear a

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1:32:42

Episode 212: 2021 < 2022 with Co-hosts & Friends

Zero Knowledge ·

2022/01/05

This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) checks in with co-hosts & friends, Tarun Chitra (https://twitter.com/tarunchitra), James Prestwich (https://twitter.com/_prestwich), Josh Cincinnati (https://twitter.com/acityinohio) and Guillermo Angeris (https://twitter.com/GuilleAngeris), for a retrospective look at 2021 and a look forward to 2022! Enjoy this conversation full of blasphemous hot takes, bad 2022 predictions and dad jokes. Listen to last year's recap: Episode 163: Kicking off 2021

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26:30

Bonus ZK Hack Wrap with Kobi!

Zero Knowledge ·

2021/12/31

While we decided not to release a full episode this week, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) did get a chance to catch up with Kobi Gurkan (https://twitter.com/kobigurk), one of the co-organizers of ZK Hack and someone who was very missed in the last episode about the event! Enjoy this special bonus New Years eve ep, one last look back at ZK Hack 2021 and a look forward as well for the project! We also mention a few links for ZK related channels to check out: - ZK Jobs Board

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1:14:06

Episode 211: It's a wrap! ZK Hack Takeaways & What's...

Zero Knowledge ·

2021/12/22

This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) hosts a special 5-part interview with a roundup of perspectives from ZK Hack. First, she chats with puzzle hackers who share what it was like to solve these real-world cryptography bugs and learn complex concepts in real time. They discuss how they got started learning in this space and the resources and tools that helped them. Next, Anna speaks with the puzzle builders on the challenges of designing and building these novel zk puzzles. They discuss

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53:47

Episode 210: The Road to STARKs and Miden with Bobbin...

Zero Knowledge ·

2021/12/15

This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) chats with Bobbin Threadbare (https://twitter.com/bobbinth) about his project Miden, a STARK-based roll-up which was recently purchased by Polygon. We recap the differences between STARKs and SNARKs and the increasingly blurred line between these two proving systems. We then map Bobbin’s journey to Miden VM (https://github.com/maticnetwork/miden) (now Polygon Miden), how it originated from his earlier project Distaff VM and now incorporates the

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1:04:48

Episode 209: Liquid Staking with Lido and Chorus One

Zero Knowledge ·

2021/12/08

This week Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) and Tarun (https://twitter.com/tarunchitra) chat with Vasiliy Shapovalov (https://twitter.com/_vshapovalov) from Lido ([Lido](https://lido.fi/)) and Felix Lutsch (https://twitter.com/FelixLts) of Chorus One (https://www.chorus.one/) about liquid staking on the ETH2 Proof of Stake consensus chain. Vasiliy explains Ethereum’s unique PoS validator setup and how liquid staking behaves on this network. They also talk about how liquid staking behaves on other

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57:18

Episode 208: Digging into Data Availability with...

Zero Knowledge ·

2021/12/01

This week Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) chats with Ismail Khoffi (https://twitter.com/KreuzUQuer) from Celestia about how and why they’re focusing on building a data availability-first L1 blockchain. Ismail takes us through how data availability can be a problem, primarily with light clients and breaks down the components necessary to understanding the data availability problem such as state changes, the separation of consensus from execution and how Celestia aims to be a pluggable consensus

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