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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 73: J. Ayo Akinyele Talks Lightning Network &...

Zero Knowledge ·

2019/04/17

In this week's episode, we invite J. Ayo Akinyele (https://twitter.com/ja_akinyele) to the podcast. Ayo is a co-Founder of Bolt Labs (https://github.com/boltlabs-inc) which will be focused on developing the Bolt Protocol (https://github.com/boltlabs-inc), a privacy preserving layer 2 approach for anonymous micropayments, which is similar to Lightning Network. Bolt, which stands for Blind, Offchain, Lightweight, Transactions, could be used for both scaling zcash or providing a scalable privacy

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Episode 72: zkSNARKs for Scale with Matter Labs

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2019/04/10

In this week's episode, we sit down with the Alex Vlasov and Alex Gluchowski (https://twitter.com/gluk64) from Matter Labs to discuss their approach to using zkSNARKs for scaling the transaction processing capacity of Ethereum. We chat about the inspiration for the Roll-up project, the Matter Labs implementation, their proposed Franklin network and more. To learn about the project check out: https://matter-labs.io/ and their github (https://github.com/matter-labs) If you want to find out more about

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Episode 71: Getting Radicle with Julian Arni

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2019/04/03

In this week's episode, we speak with Julian Arni about Radicle, a decentralized alternative to Github built on IPFS. Radicle is both a programming language and a set of tools to enable decentralised open source software development. We go deep into this project, it's hope to impact open source development and also touch on the societal questions that inspired it. Here is a short tweet (https://twitter.com/lftherios/status/1108074801250385920) that summarizes it well. The project can be found on

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Episode 70: Digging into DAI with Rune Christensen...

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2019/03/27

In this interview, we chat with Rune Christensen from MakerDAO (https://twitter.com/MakerDAO) about stablecoins, MakerDAO’s take on this concept, the peg and how this is maintained, security, oracles and more. Here are a few of the terms that we discuss in the episode: * DAI: a crypto asset-backed token pegged to the USD — it is designed to maintain a stable value. * MKR: Valuebearing, tradeable token. As a governance token, MKR holders have the responsibility of making risk based decisions that

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Episode 69: Decentralised Storage with Arweave

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2019/03/20

In this week's episode, we sit down with Sam Williams (https://twitter.com/samecwilliams) of Arweave (https://www.arweave.org) to chat about their novel approach to decentralised storage. We discuss incentivising data storage, the concept of the permaweb, and how to properly decentralise the internet archives. If you like what we do: Follow us on Twitter - @zeroknowledgefm (https://twitter.com/zeroknowledgefm) Join us on Telegram - https://t.me/joinchat/B_81tQ57-ThZg8yOSx5gjA Support our Gitcoin

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Episode 68: Conversations at EthCC

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2019/03/13

In this week's special episode, Anna pops over to EthCC (https://ethcc.io/) - the Ethereum Community Conference - to find out what's on people's minds. Speaking with Boris Mann (https://twitter.com/bmann), Maria Paula Fernandez (https://twitter.com/MPtherealMVP), Hudson Jameson (https://twitter.com/hudsonjameson), Sunny Aggarwal (https://twitter.com/sunnya97), Yalda Mousavinia (https://twitter.com/stellarmagnet), and Peter Mauric (https://twitter.com/PAMauric), these conversations centre around

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Episode 67: Formal Verification with Martin Lundfall

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2019/03/06

In this week's episode, we sit down with Martin Lundfall (https://twitter.com/martinlundfall) from Dapphub & MakerDAO to discuss formal verification (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_verification) - a topic request that comes directly from the Zero Knowledge audience. We cover what formal verification is, where it makes sense, where it doesn't, the k-framework, how different this approach is to the "move fast and break things" approach, and much more. Here are some of articles and videos we

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Episode 66: ETH2.0 Update With Danny Ryan

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2019/02/27

In this week's episode, Anna and Fredrik chat with Danny Ryan (https://twitter.com/dannyryan) from the Ethereum Foundation (https://www.ethereum.org/foundation) about the ETH2.0 project. We cover how ETH2.0 came to be, how it works, the new roadmap, and where the project is headed. Useful resources: Our last episode on ETH2.0 with Prysmatic Labs (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/37) ETH2.0 Specs (https://github.com/ethereum/eth2.0-specs) Ethresearch Forum (https://ethresear.ch/) Barry Whitehat's Rollup

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Episode 65: Bridges, xDai and Burner Wallets with...

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2019/02/20

In this week’s episode, we sit down with Igor Barinov (https://twitter.com/barinov) from POA Network and Austin Griffith (https://twitter.com/austingriffith) from Gitcoin Labs to discuss bridges, xDai - the new side-chain where DAI is the native token - and Austin's super simple Burner Wallet. Bridges are a wide topic and with this conversation we try to give some insight into what they are and how they work. We look at xDai as one concrete example of such a bridged side-chain and Austin talks about

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Episode 64: Unleashing Melon into the wild with Jenna...

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2019/02/13

In this week’s episode, Anna sits down with Jenna Zenk (https://twitter.com/jennaszenk), the CTO of Melonport (https://melonport.com/), to discuss her background, the path to the melon protocol, the challenges of building sophisticated smart contracts and what it means to release a decentralised protocol into the wild. This was recorded soon after the M1 conference (https://m-1.melonport.com/) in Zug. A few resources to check out: * Melonomics Blog posts

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Episode 63: Proxy re-encryption and FHE with NuCypher

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2019/02/06

In this episode, we sit down with Bogdan Opanchuk and John "Tux" Pacific from NuCypher (https://www.nucypher.com/) to chat about their threshold proxy-encryption technology, how the project aims to provide privacy infrastructure, dig into their nuFHE scheme and explore far along FHE research, the cryptographic "holy grail", really is. Here are some papers we mention in the podcast: * Matt Green’s blog post “Wonk post: Circular security“

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Episode 62: The path to an ERC standard

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2019/01/30

In this episode, we discuss tokens, token standards and the sometimes confusing ERC process. We cover some of the most popular token standards and discuss what it takes to design a standard and get this accepted by the community. We also have a chat with Matt Lockyer about his experience submitting ERC998 (https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/998) To see the full list of ERCs in draft and final state, check out https://eips.ethereum.org/erc Catch up with Matt Lockyer on Twitter

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Episode 61: Statistical modeling of PoS systems with...

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2019/01/23

In this episode, we chat with Tarun Chitra about a broad range on topics, from his work on early non-blockchain ASICs, to making models in high frequency trading, and the nuances of statistical modeling of PoS systems in blockchain. Tarun's new company Gauntlet (https://gauntlet.network/) is building a simulation platform for crypto networks to help developers understand how decisions about security, governance and consensus mechanisms are likely to affect network activity and asset value. Here are

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Episode 60: Cryptography 101: Multi-Party Computations

Zero Knowledge ·

2019/01/16

In this week's episode, Anna and Fredrik give a general introduction to MPCs, go over a few examples of MPCs in action, compare them with other cryptographic concepts, try to pronounce "fully homomorphic encryption" properly, and more! Here are some of the material that we reference: Andrew Yao's paper on Protocols for Secure Computations (http://research.cs.wisc.edu/areas/sec/yao1982-ocr.pdf) "How to play ANY mental game" publication - MPCs first introduced Goldreich-Micali-Wigderson (GMW)

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Episode 59: STARKs & StarkWare with Eli and Alessandro

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2019/01/09

In this week's episode, we catch up with Eli Ben-Sasson and Alessandro Chiesa from StarkWare Industries (https://www.starkware.co/). We talk about their longstanding academic work in theoretic & applied cryptography, how StarkWare came to be, the emergence of zkSNARKs and zkSTARKs, some of the differences between these different zero knowledge systems, dive into the specific features of STARKs (!) and what's coming next in the space. For some background on the topics we cover in this episode,

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Episode 58: Kicking off 2019 with Jutta Steiner

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2019/01/02

In this week's episode, we sit down with Jutta Steiner (https://twitter.com/jutta_steiner), our friend and Fredrik's CEO at Parity Technologies (https://twitter.com/paritytech), to talk about her history in the space, the origin of Parity, the last year in blockchain, and what we see coming in 2019! Here is the cryptography conference Fredrik mentioned: https://cyber.stanford.edu/sbc19 If you like what we do: Follow us on Twitter - @zeroknowledgefm (https://twitter.com/zeroknowledgefm) Join us on

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Episode 57: Merklize this! Merkle Trees & Patricia Tries

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2018/12/26

If you like what we do: Follow us on Twitter - @zeroknowledgefm (https://twitter.com/zeroknowledgefm) Join us on Telegram - https://t.me/joinchat/B_81tQ57-ThZg8yOSx5gjA Support us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/zeroknowledge Or directly here: ETH: 0xC0FFEE1B5083230a5154F55f253B6b6ae8F29B1a BTC: 1cafekGa3podM4fBxPSQc6RCEXQNTK8Zz In this week's episode, Anna and Fredrik dig into the topic of Merkle trees. We discuss the history of the concept, explore different kinds of Merkle trees, and

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Episode 56: Get to know a Core Dev: Martin Holst Swende

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2018/12/19

In this episode, Fredrik sits down Martin, who is a Core Dev working on the Geth client and head of security for the Ethereum foundation. They chat about what got him into the space, his interest in security, his entry into blockchain development and, together, they offer some advice for devs wanting to get into this space. Special thanks to POA Network (https://poa.network/) for being our sponsor on this episode. To find out more about their open source Verifiable Delay Function, or VDF, please

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Episode 55: ETHSingapore in review

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2018/12/12

In this week's episode, Anna interviews a number of participants at the ETHSingapore hackathon as part of the ETHGlobal series and tries to get a sense for how these hackers are approaching the space. In this showcase (which was recorded on the Saturday, right in the middle of the hackathon), we asked: What got you into this space? What's your take on singapore? What are you building? and What do you make of the state of Ethereum? To see our previous ETHGlobal Hackthon podcast - check out the

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Episode 54: Digging into recursive zkSNARKs with Coda

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2018/12/05

In this week's episode, we sit down with Izaak Meckler & Evan Shapiro from O(1) Labs to discuss Coda, a blockchain using recursive composition of zkSNARKs to eliminate history. We discuss recursive zkSNARKs generally, what a recursive zkSNARK construction blockchain would look like, and the challenges in implementing this sophisticated scaling solution. To find out more about the project and some of the resources mentioned in the episode, please have a look at the links below: Coda on Twitter:

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