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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 183: CowSwap & DAO Tech with Gnosis’s Martin...

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2021/06/02

This week Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) and Tarun (https://twitter.com/tarunchitra) chat with Martin Köppelmann (https://twitter.com/koeppelmann), CEO of Gnosis. The company was known for championing prediction markets, but Gnosis has now shifted to making key infrastructure products. Martin chats about this transition and explains Gnosis’s current products, which include a unique DEX called CowSwap and a number of products for managing DAO treasuries and governance. Here are some links for

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Episode 182: The dive into ZK with Iron Fish’s Elena...

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2021/05/26

This week Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) and James (https://twitter.com/_prestwich) chat with Elena Nadolinski (https://twitter.com/leanthebean), founder of Iron Fish, about the new privacy network and what led her to this point. Elena recounts her journey into crypto, starting from AirBnB and falling into the rabbit hole of Ethereum hackathons, Solidity, and NFTs, eventually leading her to exploration of zero knowledge proofs for honest computation. This deep dive into SNARKs and Sapling led

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1:04:23

Episode 181: Aping into DeFi and NFTs with Andy...

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2021/05/19

This week Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) and Tarun (https://twitter.com/tarunchitra) chat with Andy Chorlian (https://twitter.com/andy8052). Andy recounts the many interesting moments through his crypto journey, including being at Maker during Black Thursday, living through DeFi Summer, and then jumping into NFTs with Top Shot and PleasrDAO. Taking a break from his degen career, Andy is now developing Fractional, a protocol for fractionalizing NFTs. He explains how it works under the hood

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Episode 180: dYdX’s Antonio Juliano on using STARKs...

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2021/05/12

This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) and James (https://twitter.com/_prestwich) chat with Antonio Juliano (https://twitter.com/AntonioMJuliano), founder of dYdX, a derivatives exchange on Ethereum that recently transitioned to a StarkEx-powered L2 infrastructure. Antonio brings a product-centric perspective to using scalability tech. He explains the choice of going for StarkWare’s products and how it compares to other layer ones or rollups. The conversation delves into questions like

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1:00:45

Episode 179: Diving into Arbitrum’s Optimistic Rollup

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2021/05/05

This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) and James (https://twitter.com/_prestwich) host Ed Felten (https://twitter.com/EdFelten) and Steven Goldfeder (https://twitter.com/sgoldfed), co-founders of Arbitrum, an Optimistic Rollup project born before the term "Optimistic Rollup" was even coined. Ed and Steven tell Arbitrum’s story, from its beginnings as a chain-agnostic university project in 2014 to become an Ethereum-based Optimistic L2 Rollup solution based on fraud proofs. They cover

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Episode 178: Exploring SNARKs for Sidechains with...

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2021/04/28

This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) chats with Alberto Garoffolo (https://twitter.com/agaroffolo) from Horizen Labs for their upcoming Zendoo protocol and Latus sidechain proposal. The episode centers around the world of sidechains for UTXO-based blockchains such as Horizen or Zcash. The Horizen team has developed Latus and Zendoo, a SNARK-powered mechanism for designing trustless sidechains. Alberto explains how Horizen’s Zendoo system works under the hood to connect a mainchain with a

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1:09:34

Episode 177: Unwrapping Optimism with Ben and Mark

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2021/04/21

This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) and James (https://twitter.com/_prestwich) chat with Ben Jones (https://twitter.com/ben_chain) and Mark Tyneway (https://twitter.com/tyneslol) from Optimism, the builders of Optimistic Ethereum. The interview continues the series of L2-focused episodes we have been airing on the Zero Knowledge Podcast and comes just as Optimism gears up for launch. Anna, James, Ben and Mark discuss the inner workings of their Optimistic Rollup, diving deep into

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Episode 176: Zk-zk-rollup & zk.money with Zac and Joe...

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2021/04/14

In this week’s episode, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) chats with Zac Williamson (https://twitter.com/zac_aztec) and Joe Andrews (https://twitter.com/jaosef), respectively CTO and Head of Product at Aztec. The episode is centered on Aztec’s latest release, zk.money, the “zk-zk-rollup” that targets privacy and scalability at the same time. zk.money allows users to shield their Ethereum-based assets while achieving a higher transaction count, a result that took months of research and development

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Episode 175: zkEVM & zkPorter with Matter Labs

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2021/04/07

In today’s episode, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) chats with Alex Gluchowski (https://twitter.com/gluk64), CEO at Matter Labs and co-creator of zkSync, to catch up on Matter Labs’s latest developments in extending Ethereum’s capabilities with zk proofs. Alex explains the recent progress in porting Solidity to a zkRollup and how that interacts with the Zinc language and zk proof circuits. They then move on to discussing Ethereum scalability with a deep dive on rollup architecture and the

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1:24:18

Episode 174: Through the Cosmos Stargate Upgrade

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2021/03/31

In today’s episode, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) and James (https://twitter.com/_prestwich) chat with three representatives of the Cosmos ecosystem — Zaki Manian, Tess Rinearson and Shahan Khatchadourian — to learn all about its recent milestone upgrade, Stargate. First up is Zaki Manian (https://twitter.com/zmanian), co-founder of Iqlusion and Sommelier Finance, who sets the stage for what Stargate achieved and why the upgrade was the most comprehensive and complex yet for Cosmos. Next is

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Episode 173: Building Private AMMs with Guillermo...

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2021/03/24

This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) & Tarun (https://twitter.com/tarunchitra) take an in-depth look into AMMs with Guillermo Angeris (https://twitter.com/GuilleAngeris), a PhD student in Stanford who co-authored a number of papers on fundamental AMM properties. They chat about how his work on Optimization Theory and Inverse Design can be applied to a DeFi context, as well as his most recent paper deals with privacy in AMMs, effectively demonstrating how superficial attempts at making a

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Episode 172: ZK languages with Alex Ozdemir

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2021/03/17

In this week’s episode, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) has a one-on-one chat with Alex Ozdemir, a PhD student at Stanford researching formal methods, cryptography and distributed systems. Alex’s work is closely tied to the world of generalized computations within zero knowledge systems. He is one of the main developers of CirC, an infrastructure framework for building zero knowledge languages. In their conversation, Alex and Anna take a bird’s eye view of the current landscape of zk languages

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Episode 171: Mapping the Polkadot Ecosystem

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2021/03/10

In this week’s episode, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) goes on a grand tour of the Polkadot ecosystem ahead of the launch of Parachains. In this multi-interview episode, she explores the Polkadot ecosystem, how teams are interacting with the existing tech stacks, what they are looking forward to, and how these networks may evolve in the future once Parachains go live. The first speaker is Fabian Gompf (https://twitter.com/FabianGompf), VP at Parity, who explains what’s going on with parachain

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Episode 170: Hardware for ZKPs & VDFs with Supranational

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2021/03/03

In this week’s episode, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) and Tarun (https://twitter.com/tarunchitra) talk with Simon Peffers and Kelly Olson (https://twitter.com/kellymolson) from Supranational (https://twitter.com/_Supranational), a startup focused on building specialised software and hardware for advanced cryptographic computation. Simon and Kelly talk about their recent work helping out the Ethereum Foundation with VDFs, as well as building a better SNARK algorithm for Protocol Labs’

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Episode 169: Arkworks SNARK libraries with Pratyush...

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2021/02/24

In this week’s episode, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) and Robert Habermeier (https://twitter.com/rphmeier) chat with Pratyush Mishra (https://twitter.com/zkproofs), co-author of the Arkworks toolkit. Arkworks is a collection of Rust libraries designed to simplify development with SNARKs, both for developing high-level application circuits and building custom SNARK implementations. Pratyush lays out what possibilities and trade-offs Arkworks offers, diving into the details of the Rust

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1:08:14

Episode 168: Flashbots with Phil Daian and Stephane...

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2021/02/17

In this week’s episode, Anna (https://twitter.com/annarrose) and James Prestwich (https://twitter.com/_Prestwich) chat with Phil Daian (https://twitter.com/phildaian) and Stephane Gosselin (https://twitter.com/thegostep) from the Flashbots (https://github.com/flashbots/) project. Flashbots is a research and development organization formed to mitigate the negative externalities and existential risks posed by miner-extractable value (MEV) to smart-contract blockchains They talk about the Flashbots

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Episode 167: Where Media & Music meet NFTs & Blockchain

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2021/02/10

In this week’s episode, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) & Tarun (https://twitter.com/tarunchitra) take a step further into the NFT/Art space and chat with 2 content creators/entrepreneurs Andre Anjos (RAC) (https://twitter.com/RAC) and Trevor McFedries (Brud) (https://www.instagram.com/brud.fyi/) who are both making work that intersects with NFTs, crypto & other novel blockchain concepts. They discuss their respective works, and explore the new ways in which creators & influencers can engage

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1:19:52

Episode 166: Coin Center’s Peter Van Valkenburgh on...

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2021/02/03

In this week’s episode, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) & Josh Cincinnati (https://twitter.com/acityinohio) chat with Peter Van Valkenburgh (https://twitter.com/valkenburgh), Director of Research at Coin Center (https://www.coincenter.org/). Coin Center is a non-profit research and advocacy group focused on the public policy issues facing cryptocurrency and decentralized computing technologies. In this conversation, they cover the various branches in the US system, how these interact with the

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Episode 165: Aave with Stani Kulechov

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2021/01/26

This week, Anna and Tarun chat with Stani Kulechov (https://twitter.com/StaniKulechov), co-founder of Aave (https://twitter.com/AaveAave), about the origin and evolution of the project, the changing DeFi landscape, collateralized debt in crypto, Flash Loans, Flash Minting, Credit Delegation and the future of DeFi. Quick recap: A Flashloan is an uncollatoralised loan which must be issued and repaid in the same transaction before the blockchain updates the user’s account balances. If it isn’t repaid

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Episode 164: The road to Skynet & beyond with David...

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2021/01/20

This week, Anna and guest co-host James Prestwich (https://twitter.com/_prestwich) chat with David Vorick (https://twitter.com/DavidVorick) from Skynet Labs (https://siasky.net/) about the scope and goals of the Skynet project. They discuss the journey from earlier work on Sia & distributed data to Skynet, SkyDB, and their idea for Recursive Content Monetization - a new model to pay online creators and content owners. They also chat about the SkyFeed (https://github.com/redsolver/skyfeed) project -

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