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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 104: Exploring Kusama, the Canary Chaos Network

Zero Knowledge ·

2019/11/20

In this week’s episode, Anna chats with Fredrik and Nicole Zhu (https://twitter.com/nczhu), Developer at Parity Technologies (https://www.parity.io/), about the experimental Polkadot Canary Network they call Kusama (https://kusama.network/). We cover how Kusama was developed, the goals of this format and what launching a Chaos Canary Network is all about. Here is a few more links: https://twitter.com/kusamanetwork https://kusama.network/ Zero Knowledge Podcast is also looking for some feedback

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Episode 103: Exploring VDFs with Joseph Bonneau

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2019/11/13

In this week’s episode, we sit down with Joseph Bonneau (http://jbonneau.com/), Assistant Professor at NYU and co-author on the Verifiable Delay Functions (VDFs) paper. We discuss VDFs, what they are, how they were developed and what they can be used for. Here are a few links that we reference: Blockchain 101: Randomness episode with Justin Drake (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/74) Verifiable Delay Functions by Dan Boneh, Joseph Bonneau, Benedikt Bünz, and Ben Fisch

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53:56

Episode 102: Mapping the Web3 stack with The Graph

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2019/11/06

In this week’s episode, we chat with Brandon Ramirez (https://twitter.com/RezBrandon), Research Lead and co-founder of The Graph (https://twitter.com/graphprotocol), about the problem the project is trying to solve, the fast evolving Layer1-Layer2 paradigm, the emerging group of Service Protocols, and how these projects interact with other elements of the Web3 stack. Introduction of GraphQL (https://medium.com/graphprotocol/graphql-will-power-the-decentralized-web-d7443a69c69a) The Graph protocol

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Episode 101: TEEs with Yan Michalevsky from Anjuna

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2019/10/30

In this week’s episode, we chat with Yan Michalevsky (https://twitter.com/ymcrcat), CTO & Co-founder, Anjuna Security (https://www.anjuna.io/) about their work with TEEs, a continuation of topic we covered in episode 82 of this podcast (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/82). In this episode, we go deeper and cover Intel SGX vs AMD memory, the risk profiles, tooling for TEEs, how zk techniques can be used alongside TEEs, applications of enclaves and how these techniques are being optimized for. Here are

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Episode 100: Dan Boneh on the past, present & future...

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2019/10/23

In this, our special 100th episode of the Zero Knowledge Podcast, we caught up with Dan Boneh (https://twitter.com/danboneh), professor and researcher in applied cryptography and computer security at Stanford. In this far-reaching conversation, we talk about Dan's background in the field of cryptography, how the field has evolved over the years, his work on cryptography & blockchain education, where zero knowledge research and SNARKs in particular fits into the field, some exciting new research

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59:13

Episode 99: Post-Devcon5 catch-up with Tarun, James &...

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2019/10/16

In this week's episode, Anna catches up with Tarun Chitra (https://twitter.com/tarunchitra) (Gauntlet Networks (https://gauntlet.network/)), James Prestwich (https://twitter.com/_prestwich) (Summa (https://www.summa.one/)) and Georgios Konstantopoulos (https://twitter.com/gakonst) on the last day of Devcon5 (https://devcon.org/) in Osaka. In this special 99th episode, we cover a broad range of topics from their Devcon take-aways, emerging ideas in the ecosystem, the latest in PoS systems, Roll-up

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Episode 98: MimbleWimble pt 2: Beam Protocol

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2019/10/09

In this week’s episode, Anna sits down with with Alexander Zaidelson (https://twitter.com/azaidelson) and Alex Romanov (https://www.linkedin.com/in/bigromanov) from BEAM (https://beam.mw/) - a Mimblewimble based privacy coin. We discuss how this implementation of the MimbleWimble protocol differs from Grin, how the two groups work together, funding protocol development, how the Beam business model works, and the future of the protocol. Here is our previous episode about Grin

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Episode 97: MimbleWimble pt 1: Grin with Daniel Lehnberg

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2019/10/02

In this week’s episode, we chat with Daniel Lehnberg (https://github.com/lehnberg) about Grin - an implementation of the MimbleWimble privacy protocol. We cover the story behind MimbleWimble, how Grin first came to be, and how this technology works. We also look back at how this protocol came to be as well as were Daniel sees it going. Here are a few links of topics we discuss: MimbleWimble Whitepaper (https://github.com/mimblewimble/docs/wiki/MimbleWimble-Origin) Grin Tech

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55:56

Episode 96: Eli Ben-Sasson on the latest from...

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2019/09/25

In this week’s episode, Anna catches up with Eli Ben Sasson (https://twitter.com/EliBenSasson) to talk about the latest from StarkWare (https://twitter.com/StarkWareLtd), the explosion of new research within the zero knowledge space and the origin of new mathematical ideas. Recorded right after the StarkWare Sessions in tel aviv, and during a period of incredible development in new cryptographic zk techniques and protocol proposals. Here are some of the papers and ideas we cover: * STARK-friendly

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Episode 95: zkVM with Oleg Andreev

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2019/09/18

In this episode, we chat with the Oleg Andreev, a protocol architect from Stellar, about zkVM, the zero-knowledge virtual machine. In this episode, we learn a little bit about the history of Stellar, Chain and the zkVM project. We touch on the general concepts of VMs as well as compare zkVM with some other zero knowledge protocols like ZCash and ZEXE. Some other episodes you may want to check out before listening to this episode: - ZEXE (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/85) - Zcash

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Episode 94: Gnosis & Full Node with Friederike Ernst

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2019/09/11

In this episode, Anna chats with Friederike Ernst (https://twitter.com/tw_tter) from Gnosis (https://twitter.com/gnosisPM) about their work on prediction markets, wallet security, exchanges, and the co-working space Full Node (https://www.fullnode.berlin/) in Berlin - a hub for the blockchain community that Friederike spearheaded. Some links that were mentioned: sight.pm (https://sight.pm/) Phil Daian's front-running article (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.05234.pdf) slow.trade

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Episode 93: Light clients & ZKPs with Celo

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2019/09/04

In this episode, we chat with the Marek Olszewski (https://twitter.com/marekolszewski) & Kobi Gurkan (https://twitter.com/kobigurk) from Celo (https://celo.org/) about their proof-of-stake protocol, their work on making a mobile-ready light client, how zero knowledge proofs can help to make a light client “lighter”, why this would be desirable and what potential such a construction could unlock. Some ideas and episodes: BLS signatures

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Episode 92: Jorge Izquierdo talks Aragon and DAOs

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2019/08/28

In this episode, Anna catches up with Jorge Izquierdo (https://twitter.com/izqui9) from Aragon One (https://aragon.one/) to talk about the beginning of the Aragon project, the history of DAOs, as well as the challenges and potential in these new organisational entities. Here are some links we mentioned: What is a DAO (https://www.coindesk.com/information/what-is-a-dao-ethereum) The ZK ep with Griff Green on The DAO (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/29) Vermont Legal DAO Framework on Open Law

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Episode 91: Near Protocol's focus on UX

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2019/08/21

In this episode, we sit down with Alexander Skidanov (https://twitter.com/AlexSkidanov) and Illia Polosukhin (https://twitter.com/ilblackdragon) from Near Protocol (https://nearprotocol.com/) to find out about their work. We discuss what brought them to develop Near Protocol, how they used their whiteboard sessions to learn from the best people in the space, the challenge of blockchain UX, and what has motivated them to become one of the fastest moving projects around. Links: Near for developers:

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Episode 90: MPC systems with Nigel Smart

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2019/08/14

In this week's episode, we chat with Nigel Smart (https://twitter.com/SmartCryptology), Professor of Cryptology at KU Leuven (https://www.kuleuven.be/english/) and the co-founder of Unbound Tech (https://www.unboundtech.com/), about his background in cryptology, the history of MPC systems, MPC systems in the real world, and how MPC stacks up versus other related cryptography and privacy techniques. He helps us better understand where MPC comes from, the power of this technology and shares some

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Episode 89: Eth2.0 update and a look at Libra with...

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2019/08/07

In this week’s episode, we invite Raul Jordan (https://medium.com/@rauljordan) from Prysmatic Labs back to our show. He shares an update about Prysmatic Labs and ETH2.0 development. We cover some of the latest innovations, some existing challenges, timelines, implementation challenges and more. We also touch on an article that Raul published about the Libra protocol, and talk about how it compares to the public blockchains we all know and love. You can find this here:

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Episode 88: Accumulators with Ben Fisch

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2019/07/31

In this week’s episode, we chat with Ben Fisch, Stanford PhD student working in Dan Boneh's applied cryptography group. In our conversation, we dig into accumulators, Merkle trees & vector commitments. We also learn a bit about the RSA Accumulator Paper - entitled Batching Techniques for Accumulators with Applications to IOPs and Stateless Blockchains (https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/1188.pdf) - that he co-authored with Benedikt Bünz and touch on some of the ways these RSA accumulators could

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Episode 87: The road to DEXs with Will Harborne

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2019/07/24

This week, we chat with Will Harborne (https://twitter.com/will_harborne), co-founder of Ethfinex (https://trustless.ethfinex.com/) and previously at Bitfinex, about the path from traditional exchanges, to centralised crypto exchanges and more recently DEXs. We explore what the role of the DEXs really is and what we could imagine seeing in the future of the space. Some links and articles mentioned: * Ethfinex (https://trustless.ethfinex.com/) * Phil Daian's Flash Boys 2.0: Frontrunning,

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Episode 86: Ariel Gabizon on his work with zkSNARKs...

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2019/07/17

In this week’s episode, we welcome Ariel Gabizon, previously a Electric Coin Company (Zcash) engineer and now a cryptographer working on zero knowledge constructions for Filecoin (https://filecoin.io/). Ariel has worked closely with some of the most exciting projects and researchers pushing the boundaries on zero knowledge research. He is also the person who discovered the Zcash bug (along with Sean Bowe and Zooko). In this episode, we explore his journey into the space, what inspires him, and what

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Episode 85: Zexe: Decentralized Private Computation...

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2019/07/10

In this episode, we sit down with Pratyush Mishra (https://twitter.com/zkproofs), CS PhD Student at UC Berkeley and one of the co-authors on the Zexe project, to discuss the Zexe protocol. We cover how this paper came to be, what it aims to solve, how it works, and how it could be used. Recorded at ZCon1 in Split For more on the protocol, check out: * Zexe: Enabling Decentralized Private Computation Paper https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/962.pdf * Zexe Library - https://github.com/scipr-lab/zexe * This

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