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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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Episode 133: Trusted Setup Ceremonies Explored

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2020/06/10

In this week's episode, Anna explores the state of trusted setups with 4 of the people who have recently coordinated and run trusted setups for different SNARK systems. She interviews Koh Wei Jie (https://kohweijie.com/) from the Ethereum Foundation (https://twitter.com/ethereum), Thomas Walton-Pocock (https://twitter.com/trpocock) from Aztec Protocol (https://twitter.com/aztecprotocol), Brecht Devos (https://twitter.com/Brechtpd) from Loopring (https://twitter.com/loopringorg) and Kobi Gurkan

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Episode 132: Handshake Protocol with Mark Tyneway

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2020/06/03

In this episode, we chat with Mark Tyneway (https://github.com/Tynes) who is a contributor on the Handshake (https://handshake.org/) project - an experimental peer-to-peer root naming system. We learn about this decentralised, foundation-free project, the issues of DNS, how Handshake plans on fixing this, how it differs from ENS, their unique airdrop process, what an Urkel Trie is, and more. Here are a few useful links: * Handshake Whitepaper (https://handshake.org/files/handshake.txt) * An

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Episode 131: Proof of Necessary Work with Akis Kattis...

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2020/05/27

In this week's episode, Anna and guest host Tarun Chitra chat with Akis Kattis, a PhD student at NYU & the co-author of Proof of Necessary Work: Succinct State Verification with Fairness Guarantees - a paper he co-wrote with Joseph Bonneau. They discuss the challenge of Proof of Useful Work, the unique properties that SNARKs have, such as puzzle hardness, that allow for PoNW to overcome these challenges, PoS SNARK systems, elastic block construction, and more. Here are a few of the articles we

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Episode 130: Exploring Tezos & their recent Sapling...

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2020/05/20

In this week's episode, Anna interviews three people from the Tezos community: Jacob Arluck (https://twitter.com/JacobArluck) (co-founders TQ (https://twitter.com/TQTezos) ), Marc Beunardeau and Marco Stronati (both from Nomadic Labs (https://twitter.com/LabosNomades)). They chat about the Tezos (https://twitter.com/tezos) origin story, the development of the PoS system, the governance of Tezos, and how they are incorporating zk proofs - and specifically Sapling from Zcash - into their system. Here

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Episode 129: IPFS 0.5 with Molly Mackinlay from...

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2020/05/13

In this episode, we chat with Molly Mackinlay, Project Lead for the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) at Protocol Labs. We talk about her journey to Protocol Labs, as well as take a deeper view into IPFS, LibP2P, Bitswap, Testground, the use cases and projects working with these tools, and the specific upgrades they have made with the recent 0.5 IPFS release. We cover: - the importance of distributed testing infra to facilitate enterprise adoption - how UX and simple tooling plays into the

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Episode 128: DP-3T & Contact Tracing with Kenny...

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2020/05/06

In this week's episode, Anna catches up with Kenny Paterson (https://appliedcrypto.ethz.ch/people/kenny-paterson.html), Professor of Computer Science and Lead of Applied Cryptography Group at ETH Zurich (https://ethz.ch/en.html). The goal of the episode is to take a deeper look at DP-3T and privacy preserving contact tracing research in Europe generally. They cover his work at ETH Zurich, discuss how the DP-3T project came to be, look at risks facing contact tracing protocols generally, and discuss

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1:02:41

Episode 127: Consensus Algorithms & HotStuff with...

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2020/04/29

In this week's episode, we go deep into Consensus Algorithms and HotStuff (https://developers.libra.org/docs/crates/consensus) with Ittai Abraham (https://twitter.com/ittaia) from VMware Research (https://research.vmware.com/). We chat about the evolution of consensus algorithms, BFT, and how these early ideas have become the backbone of blockchain tech. We cover PBFT, Tendermint and Ittai's research into SBFT, HotStuff, and the improvements he has been working on since HotStuff's incorporation

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Episode 126: Crypto libraries, Zcash's Zebra and...

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2020/04/22

In this week's episode, we chat with Henry de Valence (https://twitter.com/hdevalence/) from the Zcash Foundation (https://www.zfnd.org/). We discuss what makes for a strong crypto library, some of the work he has been doing at the ZF and he shares an update about the Zebra Zcash client. We also learn about the TCN Coalition (https://github.com/TCNCoalition/TCN), a group he is working with that aims to build and evaluate privacy-preserving contact tracing protocols - an important tool in the fight

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1:04:41

Episode 125: Mixnets and privacy technology with...

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2020/04/15

In this episode, Anna catches up with Claudia Diaz, professor at KU Leuven (https://www.kuleuven.be/english/) and the Chief Science Officer at Nym Technology (https://nymtech.net/) to learn about mixnets, the history of privacy technology and how there may be some opportunities for new privacy tech to emerge in this post-pandemic world. Here is the contact tracing project that Claudia highlights in the episode: Pan-European Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing (https://www.pepp-pt.org/) Analysis

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