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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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1:01:59

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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1:01:02

Episode 199: Snapps on Mina with Emre and Izaak

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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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1:11:43

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

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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...

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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

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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

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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 &...

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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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Episode 192: The Evolution of Yearn with...

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2021/08/04

This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) and Tarun (https://twitter.com/tarunchitra) host Tracheopteryx (https://twitter.com/tracheopteryx) and Facu (https://twitter.com/fameal), two core devs at Yearn.finance, to take an introductory dive into the past and present of Yearn. Starting from Yearn’s spontaneous assembly in the Summer of DeFi (2020), Trach & Facu tell their personal stories of how they joined the project and where it got to since. The conversation then moves into the yDAO and

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1:08:57

Episode 191: ZKPs & the Dichotomy of Privacy vs...

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2021/07/28

This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) and Josh (https://twitter.com/acityinohio) chat with Jill Gunter (https://twitter.com/jillrgunter) (nèe Carlson), a well-known investor and crypto advocate, to dive deep into the eternal dilemma of privacy vs. transparency and how ZKPs can finally give us the tools to be more nuanced about our society’s approach to privacy. Starting from Jill’s background as a bond trader on Wall Street, the conversation quickly shifts into how the need for

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1:11:50

Episode 190: The Why & How of Privacy for DAOs

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2021/07/21

This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) chats with John Light (https://twitter.com/lightcoin) and Samuel JJ Gosling (https://twitter.com/xGozzy), two passionate privacy advocates and DAO thinkers. This topic was brought up in a recent zkSessions focused on Privacy in NFTs and DAOs spurring a deeper dive into the subject. John brings his past experience at Aragon, and now Sovryn, to discuss what is a DAO and what are its needs in privacy and collusion protection. Samuel brings the on the

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1:11:29

Episode 189: Digging into Mining with Kristy-Leigh...

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2021/07/14

This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) chats with Kristy-Leigh Minehan (https://twitter.com/OhGodAGirl), a crypto and mining veteran primarily known for developing the ProgPow hashing algorithm. She offers a unique and in-depth perspective into the world of Proof of Work mining, starting from the early days of Bitcoin and moving into the first Bitcoin ASICs, the Ethereum GPU mining era, all the way to the present day of staking dominance. Some of these stories come from Kristy’s direct

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1:17:26

Episode 188: Analyzing Osmosis & Preventing MEV with...

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2021/07/07

This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) and Tarun (https://twitter.com/tarunchitra) chat with Sunny Aggarwal (https://twitter.com/sunnya97) and Dev Ojha (https://twitter.com/valardragon) about their new project Osmosis, an AMM built into the Cosmos ecosystem using the IBC interoperability protocol. Osmosis brings some interesting innovations to the AMM table, starting from the seamless IBC integration to customizable bonding curves and per-pool governance to promote experimentation. Sunny

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1:03:26

Episode 187: The Evolution of ETH 2.0 with Teku’s Ben...

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2021/06/30

This week James (https://twitter.com/_prestwich) and Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) chat with Ben Edgington (https://twitter.com/benjaminion_xyz), Lead Product Manager for Teku, an Eth2 client developed by ConsenSys. Ben recounts his story of the involvement with Ethereum 2.0 from the very early months of Serenity and Shasper, and how those were completely replaced by the Beacon Chain concept that resulted in Ethereum 2.0 as we know it. Ben then highlights what changed after Phase 0 launch:

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Episode 186: ZKPs for Spam Protection & Decentralized...

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2021/06/23

This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) chats with Oskar Thoren (https://twitter.com/oskarth) and Sanaz Taheri-Boshrooyeh (https://twitter.com/sanaz2016) from Status to learn about their work on Waku, a decentralized messaging protocol incorporating zk-SNARKs for spam protection. Waku is the successor of Whisper, a messaging protocol that turned out to be too resource-heavy and vulnerable to spamming. Oskar and Sanaz explain how Waku V2 changes things, from ZKP-based spam protection to how

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1:07:30

Episode 185: Exploring Uniswap V3 and a Multi-L2...

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2021/06/16

This week Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) and Tarun (https://twitter.com/tarunchitra) host Noah Zinsmeister (https://twitter.com/NoahZinsmeister) and Moody Salem (https://twitter.com/sendmoodz) to learn all about Uniswap and the recent Uniswap V3 deployment. Noah and Moody go through the history of Uniswap from its EF grant days to Unisocks, Uniswap V2 and now Uniswap V3 and its ranged liquidity model. They explain all the benefits as well as the potential drawbacks, and how the project plans

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Episode 184: Anoma’s Adrian Brink on Validity...

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2021/06/09

This week Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) chats with Adrian Brink (https://twitter.com/adrian_brink), co-founder of the Anoma Network and long-time crypto builder. Adrian explains all there is to know about the new privacy-centric network, diving into concepts like fractal scaling, the validity predicate-based account model, the solution against front-running in Ferveo & much more. Here are some links for the episode: CowSwap & DAO Tech with Gnosis’s Martin Köppelmann, Zero Knowledge episode

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