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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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Bonus: ZK Whiteboard Sessions Season 2 and a ZK Pod...

Zero Knowledge ·

2024/10/04

Just sharing 2 updates: 1) the ZK Whiteboard sessions are BACK with a second season! These videos will be released every 2 weeks for the next 3 months on ZK Hack channels - * See Season 1 videos here: https://zkhack.dev/whiteboard/ * See Season 2 Module 1 here: https://zkhack.dev/whiteboard/s2m1/ 2) The Zero Knowledge Podcast (aka this show!) will take a pause on the weekly cadence of the show starting Oct 16th until the end of 2024. * Expect last 2 episodes on Oct 9 and Oct 16 * There may

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56:41

Episode 342: Catch up with Zac and Ariel

Zero Knowledge ·

2024/10/02

Summary This week Anna (https://x.com/AnnaRRose) catches up with Zac Williamson (https://x.com/Zac_Aztec) & Ariel Gabizon (https://x.com/rel_zeta_tech) from Aztec (https://aztec.network/). They cover what each has been working on over the last year, Zac shared updates about the development of Aztec and the finalization of their underlying ZK system: MegaPlonk. Ariel discussed his latest research on IVC with his publications of the ProtoGalaxy and Stackproofs works and how properties of this systems

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56:51

Episode 341: coSNARKs with Ais and Lukas from TACEO

Zero Knowledge ·

2024/09/25

Summary This week Anna (https://x.com/AnnaRRose) and Nico (https://x.com/nico_mnbl) chat with Lukas Helminger (https://x.com/luhelminger) and Ais Connolly (https://x.com/aisconnolly) from TACEO (https://x.com/TACEO_IO). They discuss Lukas & Ais’ early work in cryptography and privacy preserving technologies, the founding of TACEO and their recent work on coSNARKs - or Collaborative SNARKs - that combine MPC and ZK. They explore how these coSNARKs are created, their coCircom language, the

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1:23:41

Episode 340: Is Cosmos Dead? A critical look with...

Zero Knowledge ·

2024/09/18

Summary This week Anna (https://x.com/AnnaRRose) and Zaki Manian (https://x.com/zmanian) dive into the Cosmos (https://cosmos.network/) ecosystem and ask the question: is Cosmos Dead? They explore key events, teams and players who worked on Cosmos during different eras before teasing out the strengths and structural flaws that made the project what it is today. The conversation wraps with a discussion around new initiatives aimed at reviving the ecosystem and aligning factions in Cosmos together

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1:14:43

Episode 339: TEEs with Andrew Miller

Zero Knowledge ·

2024/09/11

SummaryIn this week’s episode, Anna (https://x.com/AnnaRRose) and Tarun (https://x.com/tarunchitra) catch up with Andrew Miller (https://x.com/socrates1024). They cover his early work on consensus, ZK and MPC before switching focus to the topic of his current work: TEEs. They map his evolving opinion on TEEs and explore why they could be seen as an optimal solution to many of the blockchain challenges. Here’s some additional links for this episode: 3:59 * Andrew Miller works

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1:29:19

Episode 338: On Trust Infrastructure with Arnaud Schenk

Zero Knowledge ·

2024/09/04

SummaryThis week Anna (https://x.com/AnnaRRose) and Nico (https://x.com/nico_mnbl) chat with Arnaud Schenk (https://x.com/_arnauds_), one of the original co-founders of Aztec (https://aztec.network/) and creator of the Polaris Fellowship (https://www.polaris-fellowship.com/). They discuss Arnaud’s recent blog post ‘On Trust Infrastructure’, exploring the down sides of a trustless system, the need to make online community building more possible and how programmable cryptography may play a role in

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1:10:56

Episode 337: Restaking Research with Naveen & Tarun

Zero Knowledge ·

2024/08/28

SummaryIn this week’s episode Anna (https://x.com/AnnaRRose) and Tarun (https://x.com/tarunchitra) chat with Naveen Durvasula (https://x.com/n_durvasula) about his recent work ‘Robust Restaking Networks (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2407.21785)’. They discuss Naveen’s early work on matching markets and how this led him to work on mechanism design before exploring how the concepts of restaking were first presented, and how both Naveen and Tarun have been working to better model the mechanisms underpinning

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1:02:29

Episode 336: ZK in Celestia with Connor O’Hara

Zero Knowledge ·

2024/08/21

SummaryIn this week’s episode, Anna (https://x.com/AnnaRRose) chats with Connor O’Hara (https://theorg.com/org/celestia/org-chart/connor-o-hara) from Celestia (https://celestia.org/). After discussing the latest ZK Hack Montréal event (https://www.zkmontreal.com/) where Connor was a judge, they dive into his professional background, the ecosystems he has been a part of and what led him to work on Celestia. They then discuss various ZK-focused initiatives within the Celestia ecosystem. Here’s some

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1:15:54

Episode 335: Groth16, IVC and Formal Verification...

Zero Knowledge ·

2024/08/14

SummaryIn this week’s episode, Anna (https://x.com/AnnaRRose) chats with Jens Groth (https://x.com/JensGroth16) and Daniel Marin (https://x.com/danielmarinq) from Nexus (https://nexus.xyz/). They catch up on all things Groth16 with the author himself before diving into a variety topics, such as formal verification in the context of ZKPs, the Nexus architecture, the benefits and challenges of building a system from the ground up, folding and IVC plus the properties these offer in a zkVM context and

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1:07

Bonus: zkSummit 12

Zero Knowledge ·

2024/08/07

Hey! There is no episode this week, but wanted to share an update about zkSummit 12 - happening on Oct 8 in Lisbon. If you want to join, be sure to apply to attend. If you want to apply to speak, the deadline to apply is Aug 15th. Both application to attend and the application to speak are in the same form that can be found @ www.zksummit.com

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1:09:44

Episode 334: ZK Research Update with Joe Bonneau

Zero Knowledge ·

2024/07/31

SummaryIn this week’s episode, Anna (https://x.com/AnnaRRose) and Guille (https://x.com/guilleangeris) catch up with Joe Bonneau (https://twitter.com/josephbonneau), Assistant Professor at NYU (https://nyu.edu/) and Research Partner at a16z crypto research (https://a16zcrypto.com/research/). They discuss the research Joe has been working on since he was last on the show in 2019, including Naysayer proofs (https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1472.pdf), Zero-Knowledge Middleboxes

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1:04:18

Episode 333: Verifiable SQL, Reckle Trees and ZK...

Zero Knowledge ·

2024/07/24

SummaryIn this week’s episode Anna (https://x.com/AnnaRRose) chats with Ismael Hishon-Rezaizadeh (https://x.com/ismael_h_r), Founder and CEO at Lagrange Labs (https://www.lagrange.dev/) and Charalampos (Babis) Papamanthou (https://x.com/chbpap), Head of Research at Lagrange and Co-Director of the Applied Cryptography Lab at Yale University. They revisit the concepts of zk-powered coprocessors and dive into the work that Charalampos did previous to joining Lagrange on Verifiable SQL. They then

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1:33:05

Episode 332: Brussels catch up with Hart from Across

Zero Knowledge ·

2024/07/18

SummaryIn this week’s episode, Anna (https://x.com/AnnaRRose) and Tarun (https://x.com/tarunchitra) sit down with Hart Lambur (https://x.com/hal2001) irl at EthCC week in Brussels. They start by exploring Hart’s project Across (https://across.to/) - a cross-chain interoperability solution and sister project to Uma (https://uma.xyz/). They explore the Across construction, the tradeoff space and how this compares to other interop solutions. Then, in ZK Podcast tradition, the group shift gears with a

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1:50

Bonus: ZK Hack Montreal

Zero Knowledge ·

2024/07/15

This week's ZK Podcast episode will be delayed to Thursday this week due to Brussels mania.In the meantime, we wanted to highlight the upcoming ZK Hack Montreal event, happening Aug 9-11 2024. This is the 4th IRL zk-focused hackathon produced by ZK Hack. Apply now to attend ZK Hack Montreal as a hacker and jump into zk. https://www.zkmontreal.com/ Find out more about ZK Hack & join the discord as well at https://zkhack.dev/

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1:22:34

Episode 331: Farcaster with Varun Srinivasan

Zero Knowledge ·

2024/07/10

SummaryIn this week’s episode, Anna (https://x.com/AnnaRRose) and Tarun (https://x.com/tarunchitra) meet with Varun Srinivasan (https://x.com/varunsrin), co-founder of Farcaster (https://www.farcaster.xyz/). They explore the Farcaster project, discussing the ideas that prompted its inception and what separates it from existing social media networks. The conversation explores the design space that Farcaster opens up for devs and the kinds of applications that can be built on top of it. Here’s some

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59:56

Episode 330: Frameworks for Programmable Privacy with...

Zero Knowledge ·

2024/07/03

SummaryIn this week’s episode, Anna (https://x.com/AnnaRRose) and Guille (https://x.com/GuilleAngeris) chat with Ying Tong Lai (https://x.com/therealyingtong) from Geometry Research (https://geometry.dev/) and Bryan Gillespie (https://x.com/bryan_gillespie) from Inversed Tech (https://inversed.tech/) about their latest research and works to date. They dive into the pair’s recent work ‘SoK: Programmable Privacy in Distributed Systems (https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/982)’, exploring the

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1:10:38

Episode 329: Building Cryptographic Proofs from Hash...

Zero Knowledge ·

2024/06/26

SummaryIn this week’s episode Anna (https://x.com/AnnaRRose) and Nico (https://x.com/nico_mnbl) chat with Alessandro Chiesa (https://ic-people.epfl.ch/~achiesa/), Associate Professor at EPFL and Eylon Yogev (https://eylonyogev.com/), Professor at Bar-Ilan University. They discuss their recent publication; Building Cryptographic Proofs from Hash Functions (https://snargsbook.org/), which provides a comprehensive and rigorous treatment of cryptographic proofs and goes on to analyze notable

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1:07:03

Episode 328: ZK on Bitcoin with Alpen Labs

Zero Knowledge ·

2024/06/19

SummaryIn this week’s episode, Anna (https://x.com/AnnaRRose) and Tarun (https://x.com/tarunchitra) chat with Sims Gautam (https://twitter.com/simanta_gautam) and Liam Eagen (https://twitter.com/liameagen) from Alpen Labs (https://twitter.com/alpenlabs). They dive into the world of Bitcoin L2s and focus on how ZK can be used to incorporate strong connections between Bitcoin and new execution environments. The group then explores BitVM, covenants, the distinction between the Bridge Operators and

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51:15

Episode 327: Proof Aggregation with Shumo and Yi from...

Zero Knowledge ·

2024/06/12

SummaryIn this week’s episode Anna chats with Shumo and Yi from NEBRA. They discuss how NEBRA UPA, or Universal Proof Aggregation, can mitigate the high price of putting ZKPs on-chain. They cover what it takes to incorporate proving systems into NEBRA UPA as well as the benefits that these systems will bring, how developers are meant to interact with them, and future integrations to enable seamless cross-zkRollup applications. They cover prover marketplaces, verification aggregation systems, and

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1:12

Bonus: ZK Hack Montreal!

Zero Knowledge ·

2024/06/05

There is no episode this week, but wanted to highlight the upcoming ZK Hack Montreal event, happening Aug 9-11 2024. This is the 4th IRL zk-focused hackathon produced by ZK Hack. Apply now to attend ZK Hack Montreal as a hacker and jump into zk. https://www.zkmontreal.com/ Find out more about ZK Hack as well at https://zkhack.dev/

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