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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 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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1:00:53

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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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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1:11:38

Episode 163: Kicking off 2021 with Anna, Tarun, James...

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2021/01/13

This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) chats with guests Tarun Chitra (https://twitter.com/tarunchitra) (Gauntlet & Robot Ventures), James Prestwich (https://twitter.com/_prestwich) (cLabs) and Josh Cincinnati (https://twitter.com/acityinohio) (previously Zcash Foundation). Throughout this conversation, they touch on topics like the state of zero knowledge applications, blockchain technology, privacy and DeFi. They also explore what we can expect in the near future. Here are a few of the

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Episode 162: Year end and end of an era with Anna &...

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2020/12/30

This week, Anna and Fredrik do a look back at 2020 and chat about some of their favourite ZKPodcast episodes and themes from this past year. This is also a notable episode, as it will be Fredrik's last as a regular co-host. And so they also take this time to reminisce and look back over 3 years of the Zero Knowledge Podcast and share some thoughts on how the space has developed. Some of the 2020 episodes discussed: * ZK & Games: Dark Forest with Brian Gu (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/141) *

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Episode 161: Loopring with Matt & Brecht

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2020/12/23

This week, Anna chats with Matthew Finestone (https://twitter.com/finestonematt) and Brecht Devos (https://twitter.com/brechtpd) from Loopring (https://twitter.com/loopringorg) about their zkrollup protocol, DEX and wallet. We explored the evolution of Loopring, how their zkrollup works, how they are bringing AMMs to L2 and what’s next for the project. We mention Brecht’s previous episode (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/133) as well the talk by Barry Whitehat

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1:00:40

Episode 160: DAppNode & the ETH2 kick off with...

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2020/12/16

This week, Anna chats with Eduardo Antuñia Díez (https://github.com/eduadiez) - co-founder / project lead of DAppNode (https://dappnode.io/) - about the importance of running your own node, the roll out of ETH2 and the role DAppNode aims to play in the future. Here are some useful links: STABLE Act (https://decrypt.co/50222/crypto-industry-votes-no-to-stablecoin-bill-in-congress) Jordi episode (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/145) DAppNode Discord (https://discord.dappnode.io) DAppNode Gaurdians of

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Episode 159: MACI with Koh Wei Jie

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2020/12/09

This week, Anna chats with Koh Wei Jie (https://twitter.com/weijie_eth) from the Ethereum Foundation about the MACI or Minimum Anti-Collusion Infrastructure. They chat about the challenges in voting digitally and in decentralised networks, how MACI uses zkps to solve this, and how it could be used in the context of quadratic voting. They also do a step by step walkthrough of how a vote is cast and counted in MACI Here are some helpful links:

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Episode 158: Threshold Cryptography with Omer...

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2020/12/02

In this week’s episode, we chat with Omer Shlomovits (https://www.omershlomovits.com/) from ZenGo Wallet (https://zengo.com/) about MPC, threshold cryptography and how the research around this topic can be used in a blockchain context. We reference the Zero Knowledge Podcast Episode 90 with Nigel Smart (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/90). Here are some additional links to check out: * ZenGo X (https://zengo.com/research/) * Flaws Could Have Exposed Cryptocurrency Exchanges to Hackers

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Episode 157: Illia Polosukhin on the development and...

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2020/11/25

This week, Anna catches up with Illia Polosukhin (https://twitter.com/ilblackdragon), CTO and co-founder of NEAR (https://near.ai/), to talk about what's new in the network since last year. They go deeper on some of the topics they discussed last time - such as sharded vs non-sharded blockchains and data availability as well as discuss the long and rocky road to launching a new PoS network, building a validator community and where we might see privacy and zkp tech in Near. Some episodes we

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1:05:41

Episode 156: Stateless Validation with Alin Tomescu

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2020/11/18

In this week’s episode, Anna and Fredrik chat with Alin Tomescu (https://twitter.com/alinush407), a post-doc researcher at VMWare Research Group (https://research.vmware.com/reserchers/alin-tomescu), about the concept of stateless systems. Specifically, they explore his work on stateless validation, why this would be desirable and what is the state of the research around this topic. Have a look at Alin’s previous zkStudy Club episodes: zkStudyClub: Alin Tomescu on authenticated dictionaries and

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Episode 155: Testing PoW Consensus Algorithm Security...

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2020/11/11

In this week’s episode, we revisit the topic of consensus algorithms with Ren Zhang (https://twitter.com/nirenzang), a researchers at Nervos and previously at imec-COSIC (KU Leuven). We chat about an earlier work he did on evaluating PoW consensus protocols security and explore his more recent work on NC-Max - a consensus protocol that breaks the throughput limit and enables the full utilization of the nodes’ bandwidth in confirming transactions Here are a few of the links we mention in the

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Episode 154: ZK for authentication with Nolan and...

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2020/11/04

In this week’s episode, Anna spoke with Nolan Smith (https://www.linkedin.com/in/notalwaysgray) and Locke Brown (https://twitter.com/lockebrown), co-founders at NuID (https://nuid.io) - a zero knowledge authentication solution. They explore the use-case of zk-powered password management and how this relates to Identity. Here are a few of the articles mentioned in the episode: -Universally Composable Direct Anonymous Attestation (https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/1246.pdf) by Jan Camenisch , Manu

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Episode 153: Monsters in the Mempool with Dan...

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2020/10/28

In this week’s episode, we chat with Dan Robinson, a Research Partner at Paradigm (https://www.paradigm.xyz/). We talk about the world of crypto VC and revisit of the topic of the Ethereum mempool. We then hear Dan's story about how he and some colleagues tried to save a transaction from the monsters that lurk in the mempool as told in his blog post entitled “Ethereum is a Dark Forest”. For some background, here are some links: Ep 44: Blockchain 101: Transaction lifecycle & the mempool

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