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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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1:11:38

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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1:05:29

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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53:35

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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1:02:17

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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55:37

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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52:31

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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1:03:40

Episode 152: Blockchain analytics with Alex Svanevik...

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2020/10/21

In this week’s episode, guest host Tarun Chitra (https://twitter.com/tarunchitra) and Anna chat with Alex Svanevik (https://twitter.com/asvanevik?lang=en), CEO & cofounder of Nansen (https://nansen.ai). They cover crypto analytics, DeFi analytics as well as discuss the push and pull between a need for privacy and the need for blockchain transparency and data. Topics include: can DeFi and Privacy co-exist, how being aware of blockchain analytics could help people improve their opsec, the role of

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1:10:42

Episode 151: John Adler on Optimistic vs ZK Rollup...

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2020/10/14

In this episode, we chat with John Adler - co-founder of Lazy Ledger (now Celestia) and Fuel Labs. We compare Optimistic Rollups and ZK Rollups as well as discuss how Ethereum, specifically Eth1, could look over the next few years. We also talk about the data availability challenge in blockchains and how Lazy Ledger aims to solve this. Relevant links can be found here: James Prestwich's thread on Scalability vs Throughput myths (https://twitter.com/_prestwich/status/1284174486674083840) The

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Episode 150: NFTs & Rarible with Alex Salnikov

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2020/10/07

This week, Anna continues to dig into the topic of NFTs - That is Non-Fungible-Tokens or unique digital items - with Alex Salnikov (https://twitter.com/insider0x), co-founder & chief product officer at Rarible (https://rarible.com). They talk about the project, the link between NFTs and DeFi concepts, how the NFT space is developing, novel use cases and more. Here are some of the topics we mention: The path to an ERC standard (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/62) CryptoKitties, Dapper Labs and Flow

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Episode 149: CryptoKitties, Dapper Labs and Flow with...

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2020/09/30

In this week's episode, we chat with Dieter Shirley (https://twitter.com/dete73), CTO Dapper Labs (https://www.dapperlabs.com/), Chief Architect of Flow Blockchain (https://www.onflow.org/), and co-creator of CryptoKitties (https://www.cryptokitties.co/). We go back to look at the history of CryptoKitties, the NFT standard, what pushed Dapper Labs to build their own blockchain, how Flow works and what’s next. Here are a few useful links: The Path to an ERC standard

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9:17

Sushiswap Bonus Chat

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2020/09/24

This is a short bonus chat to Episode 148 "Tale of the Sushi(swap)". Tarun (https://twitter.com/sushiswap?lang=en), Hasu (https://twitter.com/hasufl) and Anna (https://twitter.com/annarrose) reconvene to wrap up the story of Governance Tokens, Sushiswap and the Uniswap token distribution. Be sure to first listen to "Tale of the Sushi(swap) - Part 1" (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/148) "Tale of the Sushi(swap) - Part 2"

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Episode 148: A Tale of Sushi(Swap) with Tarun, Hasu...

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2020/09/24

In this special podcast crossover episode, Tarun (https://twitter.com/sushiswap?lang=en), Hasu (https://twitter.com/hasufl) and Anna (https://twitter.com/annarrose) cover the emergence of governance tokens in the DeFi space and then dive deep into the Sushiswap (https://twitter.com/sushiswap) story - what protocols came before and how it performed a vampire attack on (what was at the time) a tokenless Uniswap. This story acts as a fascinating case study as well as a cautionary tale for moat-less

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Episode 147: Oasis Labs & Privacy with Vishwanath Raman

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2020/09/16

In this episode, we catch up with Vishwanath Raman (https://twitter.com/ramanvishwa?lang=en), Privacy Architect at Oasis Labs (https://www.oasislabs.com) where he works on privacy and confidentiality technologies for Direct to Consumer and Business to Business use cases. His interest and experience span formal methods, applied machine learning, security, and privacy. Vishwa got his PhD in Computer Science at UC Santa Cruz followed by postdoctoral work at Carnegie Mellon. The Oasis Network is a

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1:06:09

Episode 146: Catch up with Anna & Fredrik

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2020/09/09

In this week’s special episode, we flip the script and invite our friend Alexandra Heller to ask ZKPodcast co-hosts Anna & Fredrik some questions from the audience.. It’s a bit of a different format, so hope you will enjoy! Here are a few of the episodes we mention: -Chatting about consensus algorithms with Robert Habermeier (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/15) -Zooko talks Zcash on our 50th episode (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/50) -Sean Bowe on SNARKs, Trusted Setups & Elliptic Curve Cryptography

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1:07:39

Episode 145: Circom & Hermez with Jordi Baylina

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2020/09/02

In this week's episode, Anna and Fredrik catch up with Jordi Baylina (https://twitter.com/jbaylina?lang=en), co-founder of Iden3 (https://iden3.io), the creator of Circom & SnarkJS. They chat about his work in the ecosystem, building zk circuits and the recently announced Hermez, a new zkrollup with a novel proof-of-donation mechanism that will redistribute 40% of earnings to Ethereum-based community projects. Jordi has an amazing story, which we got to explore in this episode, so thanks again

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