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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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1:16:30

Episode 238: Aurora and Near with Alex and Illia

Zero Knowledge ·

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

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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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1:10:07

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

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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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1:10:12

Episode 229: Going Cross-Chain with Polkadot’s XCM

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2022/05/11

In this week’s episode, Anna (https://twitter.com/annarrose) dives back into the Polkadot world with friend and occasional co-host Rob Habermeier (https://twitter.com/rphmeier) from Parity. They cover XCM - the Cross-Consensus Messaging format - and how XCM allows parachains to speak to one another, passing messages through the validators on the relay chain via XCMP Cross-Chain Message Passing. Here are some links for this episode: * @paritytech | Github (https://github.com/paritytech) * @Polkadot

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1:17:49

Episode 228: Catch-up at DevConnect AMS with Tarun,...

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2022/05/04

In this week’s episode, Anna (https://twitter.com/annarrose) catches up with Tarun (https://twitter.com/tarunchitra), Guillermo (https://twitter.com/GuilleAngeris) and Brendan (https://twitter.com/_bfarmer) at DevConnect Amsterdam to cover a range of interesting and random topics like how blockchain and AI thinking differs, where it could intersect and how ZK tech could be implemented, how science could benefit from more adversarial testing, why peer review is broken, math theory, takeaways from

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57:40

Episode 227: Move & Sui with Sam Blackshear from...

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2022/04/27

In this week’s episode, Anna (https://twitter.com/annarrose) chats with Sam Blackshear (https://twitter.com/b1ackd0g), co-founder and CTO at Mysten Labs. Sam has a background in programming language research and is one of the authors of the Move language, a language that can be used to implement custom transactions and smart contracts. They chat about Mysten’s concept of programmable objects and what properties are necessary to make this functional for a blockchain context. They also cover Sui, a

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1:06:24

Episode 226: Interoperability with Sergey Gorbunov...

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2022/04/20

This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/annarrose) catches up with Sergey Gorbunov (https://twitter.com/sergey_nog) from Axelar (https://twitter.com/axelarcore) and revisits the topic of bridges. They chat about what led Sergey to work on interoperability, the problems these solutions try to solve, how it compares to existing solutions, and what's next for the project. They also chat about some of the challenges of a multi bridge landscape and the fragmentation of liquidity. Links for the episode: *

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1:22:26

Episode 225: Dark Forest and 0xPARC with Gubsheep

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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

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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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