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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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1:14:06

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

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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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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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Episode 208: Digging into Data Availability with...

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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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1:04:47

Episode 207: Journey Through the Cosmos Ecosystem...

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2021/11/24

This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) chats with Billy Rennekamp (https://twitter.com/billyrennekamp) about the Cosmos Hub ecosystem, ICF and some of the latest innovations he is watching. They discuss his early experiments with NFTs that led to the Clovers Network and his move into the Cosmos ecosystem. Through this, they cover how the space has evolved and the game changing potential of the IBC paradigm. Billy explains how the Cosmos Hub aims to support innovative modular development and

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1:13:08

Episode 206: Distilling DeFi Primitives with...

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2021/11/17

This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) catches up with Guillermo Angeris (https://twitter.com/GuilleAngeris), Alex Evans (https://twitter.com/alexhevans) and Tarun (https://twitter.com/tarunchitra). The conversation charts their research on CFMMs, AMMs and related primitives and explores the goals and methodology of this work. They also revisit the topic of private AMMs and specifically their recent work on using differential privacy to achieve a more private system. Here are some links

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1:15:13

Episode 205: Curating JPEGs with JPG

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2021/11/10

This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) and Tarun (https://twitter.com/tarunchitra) chat with MP (https://twitter.com/mptherealmvp), Trent (https://twitter.com/_trente_) and Sam (https://twitter.com/_samspike_) from JPG about this on-chain NFT curation protocol. They walk through what the JPG team wanted out of this decentralized curation protocol and how to bring in voices that aren't always heard in the traditional art world. They also explore the idea of rethinking the mechanism of

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1:11:50

Episode 204: Keeping Up with the Kusama Network

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2021/11/03

This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/annarrose) catches up on what has been happening in the Kusama network ecosystem with Will Pankiewicz, Raul Romanutti (https://twitter.com/nachortti), and Bruno Skvorc (https://twitter.com/bitfalls). First up, Will, the Master of Validators at Parity, takes us through the fundamentals of Kusama, how it differs from Polkadot and some future predictions for the ecosystem and its parachains. Next, Raul, Community Manager and council member, breaks down how Kusama's

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1:00:17

Episode 203: MPC and DAGs with Aleph Zero's Adam...

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2021/10/27

This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/annarrose) speaks with Adam Gągol (https://twitter.com/GagolAdam) and Matthew Niemerg (https://twitter.com/matthewniemerg) about Aleph Zero - an L1 project mixing ZKPs and MPCs with a DAG consensus algorithm. The aim of their project is to enable private smart contracts. In the conversation, they explore the underlying DAG structure and their privacy solutions that leverage zero-knowledge proofs (zk-SNARKs) and Secure Multiparty Computation (sMPC). Here are

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1:01:59

Episode 202: Stateless Ethereum & Verkle Tries with...

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2021/10/20

This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/annarrose) speaks with Dankrad Feist (https://twitter.com/dankrad), a researcher at the Ethereum Foundation. They talk about the future of the ETH client infrastructure, the merge, the difference between merkle trees and verkle tries, and more. They also explore how concepts that originated in the ZK research space have made their way into the ETH client stack. Here are some links for this episode: * Episode 120: ZKPs in Ethereum with Vitalik Buterin & Justin

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Episode 201: DeFi's Multichain Future with Zaki...

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2021/10/13

This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) catches up with Zaki Manian (https://twitter.com/zmanian) and his new project Sommelier (https://sommelier.finance/). They explore how Sommelier aims to develop strategies to better serve the more complex emerging DeFi projects like Uniswap V3, and how this would allow the average user to benefit from these new powerful tools. They also discuss Zaki’s vision for multichain DeFi and how the space has evolved over the last few years. Here are a few links

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1:05:10

Episode 200: SNARK Research & Pedagogy with...

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2021/10/06

200th Episode of Zero Knowledge Podcast! This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) chats with Alessandro Chiesa (https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~alexch/), a professor working on cryptography, complexity and security and one of the co-founders Zcash and StarkWare. Anna and Ale dig into some of the recent SNARK research coming out of his lab and discuss how to navigate the challenges of teaching in a space that changes quickly. Here are some links for this episode: * Episode 59: STARKs &

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Episode 199: Snapps on Mina with Emre and Izaak

Zero Knowledge ·

2021/09/29

In this week’s episode, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) chats with Emre Tekişalp (https://twitter.com/etekis) and Izaak Meckler (twitter.com/izmeckler) about what’s new with Mina, O(1) Labs, the network launch and of course the anticipated release of Snapps to testnet later this year. We learn all about how Snapps, these SNARK-powered applications, bring data privacy and scalability to blockchain. Here are a few links for this episode: * Latest recursive SNARKitecture with Izaak Meckler from

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Episode 198: NFT Creation, Curation and Governance...

Zero Knowledge ·

2021/09/22

In this week’s episode, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) and Tarun (https://twitter.com/tarunchitra) dive back into the NFT space with their guest Luiz (https://twitter.com/dgntec) from FingerprintsDAO (https://www.fingerprintsdao.xyz/). FingerprintsDAO is a collector organization for artists, curators and producers. Luiz takes us through new paradigms of NFT creation, its governance and the wild world of on-chain art where it’s the smart contract that is the art and wherein the value lies. Here

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1:07:51

Episode 197: WalletConnect & the DApp/Wallet...

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2021/09/15

This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) chats with Pedro Gomes (https://twitter.com/pedrouid), Founder of WalletConnect, about how wallets and DApps traditionally interact and the journey to WalletConnect and WalletConnect 2.0. They explore how the tech incorporates the Waku protocol, as well as the role of CAIPs (Chain Agnostic Improvement Proposals) in determining how WalletConnect evolves. Pedro shares what prompted the new WalletConnect 2.0 development decisions and his thoughts on what

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1:17:49

Episode 196: Mixnets, Activism and Privacy with Nym’s...

Zero Knowledge ·

2021/09/08

This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) chats with Harry Halpin (https://twitter.com/harryhalpin), the CEO of the Nym project, about a variety of topics related to privacy, politics and the need to build censorship-resistant systems. Harry talks about his early involvement in cryptography and his changing perspectives on capitalism as a tool for good. He shares how Nym aims to protect blockchain transactions from network-based deanonymization attacks. Here are a few links mentioned in this

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1:00:15

Episode 195: Sushi Beyond the Fork with Joseph Delong

Zero Knowledge ·

2021/09/01

This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) and James (https://twitter.com/_prestwich) chat with Joseph Delong (https://twitter.com/josephdelong), CTO of Sushi, who talks about everything that’s happened since the initial SushiSwap genesis and the gradual transition into a large organization capable of shipping multiple products: MISO, Kashi, BentoBox and the upcoming Trident. Joseph then dives into a few of the recent events like the MISO vulnerability, the scrapped VC raise, the Optimism

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1:03:15

Episode 194: zkEVM with Jordi & David from Hermez

Zero Knowledge ·

2021/08/25

This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) chats with Jordi Baylina (https://twitter.com/jbaylina) and David Schwartz (https://twitter.com/davidsrz) from Hermez about their zkEVM design that was first revealed at EthCC. Jordi and David explain the design choices such as why they push for recreating the EVM, how it’s done at a technical level and how Hermez’s approach is different from other zk teams like Matter Labs and StarkWare. The original recording was done before the news of the merger

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Zero Knowledge Podcast (finally) has a real website!

Zero Knowledge ·

2021/08/18

No full episode this week, but we just wanted to let you know about the brand new zeroknowledge.fm (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/) website! Finally, we have a site that brings together all the different parts of the ZK Community: podcast episodes, upcoming and past events, blog, social channels and more. We also have a new updated ZK Jobs Board (https://jobsboard.zeroknowledge.fm/) featuring zk focused job opportunities, as well as a new ZK Community Forum (https://community.zeroknowledge.fm/)

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1:03:20

Episode 193: The Early Days of Cosmos, Chorus One &...

Zero Knowledge ·

2021/08/11

This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) chats with Brian Fabian Crain (https://twitter.com/crainbf), a fellow podcaster from Epicenter (https://epicenter.tv), founder of Chorus One (https://www.chorus.one/) and an early member of the Berlin crypto community. The conversation starts from Brian’s early involvement in Bitcoin in 2013 and his role in the local Berlin community, leading him to launch the Epicenter podcast. Brian then tells his story of founding Chorus One, a validator whose

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