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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 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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Episode 84: Zcash community & more with Amber Baldet

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2019/07/03

In this episode, we sit down at the Zcon1 Conference (https://www.zfnd.org/zcon/) in Croatia with Amber Baldet, CEO and co-founder of Clovyr, former JPMorgan Blockchain Program Lead, and board member of the Zcash Foundation (https://www.zfnd.org/). We chat about about her road to the blockchain space, the problems she aims to solve with her work on Clovyr, some updates about the Zcash community & foundation, the state of zero knowledge research and the potential and challenges around the

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Episode 83: From Warp Sync to SPREE with Polkadot's...

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2019/06/26

In this episode, Anna chats with Robert Habermeier (https://twitter.com/rphmeier), one of the co-founders of Polkadot and an engineer at Parity Technology, about his early experience with Rust and cryptography, as well as the work he did at Parity on Warp Sync and Lightclients. We then discuss how this helped inspire some of the concepts and design of the Polkadot protocol. We also chat about some of the exciting concepts that he is discovering along the way - such as new architectures to promote

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Episode 82: TEEs, SGX and the Graphene project

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2019/06/19

In this week's episode we chat with two of the people behind the Graphene project (https://grapheneproject.io/), Chia-Che Tsai of Texas A&M University and Golem developer Lukasz Glen, about TEEs, Intel® Software Guard Extensions (Intel® SGX), and the way the Graphene project aims to make it easier for devs to interact with these hardware enclaves. Graphene (https://grapheneproject.io/) started as a research project at Stony Brook University, led by Chia-Che Tsai and Don Porter, about emerging

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Episode 81: P2P Messaging & Scuttlebutt with Dominic...

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2019/06/12

In this week’s episode, we meet with Dominic Tarr (https://dominictarr.com/), a protocol designer and security auditor at Least Authority (https://leastauthority.com/) who works on Scuttlebutt (https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/) - a decentralized secure gossip platform. We discuss P2P messaging and the challenges of sending messages within a p2p network in a truly decentralised manner. Here are some links we mention:

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Episode 80: On the Frontiers of Validation with Bison...

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2019/06/05

In this week's episode, Anna sits down with Joe Lallouz (https://twitter.com/JoeLallouz) and Aaron Henshaw (https://twitter.com/aaronhenshaw) from Bison Trails (https://bisontrails.co/) - a validator infrastructure company based in NYC. Recorded during the NYC blockchain week, we chatted about the latest PoS systems to launch, what it means to be a validator, how the incentive structures can impact the ecosystem development and potential futures for this uncharted validator landscape. Thank you to

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Episode 79: Privacy & P4 with Liz and Chris from...

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2019/05/29

In this week's episode, we sit down with Liz Steininger (https://twitter.com/liz315) and Chris Wood from Least Authority (https://leastauthority.com/) to discuss the state of privacy today, the case for private crypto subscription payments and their P4 proposal. The Private Periodic Payment Protocol, P4, uses the shielded account feature of Zcash to provide a fully decentralised method for recurring end-to-end private cryptocurrency payments. Links mentioned: * Article about Tim Berners Lee wanting

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Episode 78: Diving into Cosmos with Sunny

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2019/05/22

In this week's episode, Anna sits down with Sunny Aggarwal (https://twitter.com/sunnya97) to talk about his journey into blockchain, the beginnings of Blockchain at Berkeley, how he discovered Cosmos, his role as a validator and as a podcast co-host. We discuss: * Coursera course that Sunny mentions https://www.coursera.org/learn/money-banking * Blockchain at Berkeley https://blockchain.berkeley.edu/ * Cosmos https://cosmos.network/ * Sikka https://www.sikka.tech/ * Epicenter Podcast

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Episode 77: Funding Blockchain Development with Kevin...

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2019/05/15

In this week, we sit down with Kevin Owocki, co-founder of gitcoin, to have a look at how open source blockchain development is funded. We cover the different methods for funding open source work, what has worked in the past, what hasn’t, how funding blockchain projects can be quite different and what people are experimenting with today. We discuss: EIP1337 (https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/1337) Roads and Bridges: The Unseen Labor Behind Our Digital Infrastructure

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Episode 76: Sean Bowe on SNARKs, Trusted Setups &...

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2019/05/08

In this week’s episode, we welcome special guest Sean Bowe. Sean is an engineer at the Electric Coin Company (https://twitter.com/zcashco) and the author of the Sprout and Sapling Zcash trusted set ups and much of the underlying cryptography of the protocol. We had a chance to chat about his history, what got him into the topic, some of the joys & challenges to working with SNARKs, and what ideas are inspiring him. We also covered the story of Zcash and the Powers of Tau trusted set up, MPCs, the

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Episode 75: Exploring Aztec with Zac Williamson

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2019/05/01

In this week’s episode, we sit down with Zac Williamson (https://twitter.com/Zac_Aztec) of the Aztec Protocol (https://www.aztecprotocol.com/) to discuss zero knowledge tools, range proofs, the Aztec Protocol, the different approaches to bringing privacy to ethereum, and how standards in the space are emerging. Check out Zac's talk at the ZK Summit for more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIg2aJQqNNc&feature=youtu.be Here was our episode with Benedikt Bunz talking about Bulletproofs

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Episode 74: Blockchain 101: Randomness and Random...

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2019/04/24

In this week's episode, we sit down with Justin Drake (https://twitter.com/drakefjustin), researcher at the Ethereum Foundation, to discuss randomness in blockchain, how it can be created and what adversarial models exist. We also discuss the random beacon and how that concept has evolved in the development of ETH2.0 Our initial definition of randomness in cryptography comes largely from this article by cloudflare: https://blog.cloudflare.com/randomness-101-lavarand-in-production/ Check out Justin

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