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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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1:03:40

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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57:02

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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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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58:48

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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54:17

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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Episode 144: Aleo with Howard Wu

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2020/08/26

In this episode, we invite Howard Wu (https://twitter.com/1howardwu) back to the show to share more about his new project Aleo (https://aleo.org/) - a privacy-focused blockchain that enables fully private applications. Howard's previous ZKPodcast episode, Introduction to zkSNARKs (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/38), remains one of our most popular episodes to date! We chat about why you need programming languages for SNARKs, what it is like to switch from VC/Academia to being a founder and the two

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1:19:19

Episode 143: Josh Cincinnati on Zcash, governance and...

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2020/08/19

In this episode we chat with Josh Cincinnati (https://twitter.com/acityinohio), the former executive director of Zcash Foundation (https://twitter.com/ZcashFoundation). We cover Josh's career before Zcash, his work at the foundation, the important role privacy plays in crypto and the challenges of decentralised governance. We also discuss his decision to leave the foundation, Zcash Foundation's philosophy of transparency, his hopes for the future of the Zcash community, his next steps and why he

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1:04:22

Episode 142: Hasu & Georgios on Bitcoin Security &...

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2020/08/12

In this episode, Anna and guest host Georgios (https://twitter.com/gakonst) chat with Hasu (https://twitter.com/hasufl), an independent crypto researcher focused on economics and security, about elastic block size proposals in both Bitcoin and Ethereum. They cover how Hasu found his way into research as well as the history of the block size BIPs that shaped the ecosystem as well as Ethereum’s EIP 1559 Here are some additional links: Research paper: A model for Bitcoin’s security and the declining

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1:02:39

Episode 141: ZK & Games: Dark Forest with Brian Gu

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2020/08/05

In this week's episode, we chat with Brian Gu (https://twitter.com/bgu33), a student at MIT and creator of the Dark Forest (https://twitter.com/darkforest_eth) game. We chat about education, blockchain based games and what inspired his work on the Dark Forest game. We then dig into how this game creates an incomplete information game space by using zkSNARKs to create a “cryptographic fog of war” and more! As described on their blog, Dark Forest (https://blog.zkga.me/announcing-darkforest) is an MMO

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1:14:26

Episode 140: Staking derivatives & DeFi with Alex...

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2020/07/29

** Be sure to visit our ZKPodcast subreddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/zkpodcast) and leave us some questions for the upcoming AMA!** In this week’s episode, Anna and guest-host / frequent guest Tarun Chitra (https://twitter.com/tarunchitra) catch up with Alex Evans (https://twitter.com/alexhevans), researcher at Placeholder Capital (https://www.placeholder.vc/). They dive into the latest in DeFi, a topic that we don't cover too often, but has become hard to ignore. Specifically they discuss the

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Episode 139: Findora with Benedikt Bunz and Ben Fisch

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2020/07/22

** Check out the ZKPodcast subreddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/ZKPodcast/comments/hvr8dv/ama_with_anna_and_fredrik_post_your_questions_here/) and share some comments/questions for our upcoming AMA ** This week, we catch up with Benedikt Bunz (https://twitter.com/benediktbuenz) and Ben Fisch (https://twitter.com/benafisch), PhD students at Stanford, once again. In this episode, we dive deeper into Findora (https://twitter.com/findoraorg), a project that was co-founded by Ben (who is also the CTO) and

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58:06

Episode 138: Validium with DeversiFi & Starkware

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2020/07/15

In this episode, we will be exploring StarkWare and DeversiFi’s collaboration - a Layer 2 STARK-powered exchange for Ethereum assets. Guests Tom Brand (https://twitter.com/bbrandtom), product manager at Starkware (https://twitter.com/StarkWareLtd), and Will Harborne (https://twitter.com/will_harborne), co-founder of DeversiFi (https://twitter.com/deversifi), discuss the project, how it works under the hood and give us a glimpse into what they have planned for the future. We also look at how

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Episode 137: Trusted Setup Bonus: Tornado Cash

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2020/07/08

In this week's episode, Anna follows up on the trusted setup survey she did in her previous episode on the topic with this bonus interview with Roman Semanov (https://twitter.com/semenov_roman_) & Roman Storm (https://twitter.com/rstormsf) from Tornado Cash. Tornado Cash's trusted setup, held in May 2020, was the largest to date with over 1000 participants. Be sure to listen to the full ZKPodcast Trusted Setup episode (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/133) first Find out more about Tornado Cash's

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57:13

Episode 136: Math competitions, crypto as alchemy &...

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2020/07/01

This week, Anna and guest host Tarun Chitra (https://twitter.com/tarunchitra) chat with Yan X Zhang (https://yanxzhang.com/), professor at SJSU, about math competitions, math education, how crypto is like alchemy and the Gasper paper - work Yan and his students collaborated on with the Ethereum Foundation. “Gasper” is a proof-of-stake-based consensus protocol, which is an idealized version of the proposed Ethereum 2.0 beacon chain. The protocol combines Casper FFG, a finality tool, with LMD GHOST,

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59:25

Episode 135: Look into Solana

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2020/06/24

This week, Anna and guest host Georgios Konstantopoulos (https://twitter.com/gakonst) chat with Anatoly Yakovenko (https://twitter.com/aeyakovenko) from Solana (https://twitter.com/solana) network. They learn about this system and discuss the innovations that allow them to achieve high performance without sharding. For more on Solana check out their website - https://solana.com/ We also mention this episode (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/103) on VDF's with Joseph Bonneau. Here

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Episode 134: tBTC with Matt Luongo

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2020/06/17

In this episode, we chat with Matt Luongo (https://twitter.com/mhluongo), CEO of Thesis (https://twitter.com/thesis_co), founder of Keep Network (https://twitter.com/keep_project), and project lead of tBTC. We cover the need for BTC to ETH bridges, what the challenges are in building bridges with BTC, tBTC and how it is setup, what went down with the initial tBTC release - an event the team now refers to as "release candidate 0", and where we might be seeing tBTC go next. Here are some useful

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