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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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1:27

Announcement: ZK Hack Krakow - May 17-19 2024

Zero Knowledge ·

2024/04/09

A quick announcement for ZK Hack Krakow, happening from May 17-19 2024 in Krakow (!). In the spirit of ZK Hack Lisbon and ZK Hack Istanbul, ZK Hack Krakow will be hosting hackers from all over the world to join us for a weekend of building and experimenting with zk tech. Sponsors for this edition are Mina, O1Labs, Aleph Zero, Polygon, Scroll, Avail, Nethermind and more. If you are interested, apply as a hacker - there will be prizes and bounties to be won, new friends and collaborators to meet and

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Episode 318: Threshold Signature Schemes & FROST with...

Zero Knowledge ·

2024/04/03

In this week’s episode, Anna (https://twitter.com/annarrose) and Nico (https://twitter.com/nico_mnbl) chat with Chelsea Komlo (https://twitter.com/chelseakomlo), Chief Scientist for the Zcash Foundation (https://zfnd.org/) and member of the Cryptography, Security, and Privacy lab at the University of Waterloo (https://crysp.uwaterloo.ca/).They discuss what sparked Chelsea’s interest in cryptography research, starting with her work contributing to Tor, to her move to Zcash and her PhD work on

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1:08:32

Episode 317: Enhancing On-Chain Intelligence with Ritual

Zero Knowledge ·

2024/03/27

This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/annarrose) and Tarun (https://twitter.com/tarunchitra) chat with Niraj Pant (https://twitter.com/niraj) and Anish Agnihotri (https://twitter.com/_anishagnihotri) from Ritual (https://ritual.net/). They kick off by revisiting the AIxCrypto intersection before diving into the Ritual product and its goals around developing open access AI infrastructure. They explore the opportunities that open up when you bring ML to smart contracts. Here’s some additional links

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Bonus: zkSummit11 reminder!

Zero Knowledge ·

2024/03/25

Quick reminder about our upcoming zkSummit 11 event. Happening in Athens on April 10th, we will be bringing together the top researchers and engineers working in zk to share their latest research and new findings. Apply at zksummit.com (https://www.zksummit.com/) If you have already applied, please remember to buy your ticket! Email summit [at] zeroknowledge.fm if you have questions about your application or haven't received a response yet.

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1:01:56

Episode 316: Alin Tomescu on Distributed On-chain...

Zero Knowledge ·

2024/03/20

In this week’s episode, Anna (https://twitter.com/annarrose) and Nico (https://twitter.com/nico_mnbl) chat with Alin Tomescu (https://twitter.com/alinush), founding team member and Head of Cryptography at Aptos Labs (https://twitter.com/AptosLabs). They discuss Alin’s journey to Aptos and his work on distributed on-chain randomness as well as the new Aptos Keyless project. They cover the Keyless accounts architecture, how the flow works for the user and some of the subtleties in the approach they

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1:12:50

Episode 315: ZK Hack Ecosystem & Winners of ZK Hack IV

Zero Knowledge ·

2024/03/13

This week’s episode is a little different from the usual and is split into two parts with Anna (https://twitter.com/annarrose) and Kobi (https://twitter.com/kobigurk) exploring the history of ZK Hack, its origins and how the event has evolved into what it is today, including current activity in the ZK Hack ecosystem. The second half of the show splits off into Anna and Nico (https://twitter.com/nico_mnbl) chatting the top 3 hackers from ZK Hack IV Online, which wrapped back in February. Each mini

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1:07:09

Episode 314: Succinct's Platform, Prover Network and SP1

Zero Knowledge ·

2024/03/06

In this week’s episode, Anna (https://twitter.com/annarrose) and Tarun (https://twitter.com/tarunchitra) catch up with Uma Roy (https://twitter.com/pumatheuma), CEO and cofounder of Succinct (https://succinct.xyz/). They dive into Succinct’s developments over the last year ranging from the work they did on the ZK bridge infrastructure to the Succinct platform, the Succinct prover network and their most recent release of SP1. They discuss connections between these products, how their development

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1:15:07

Episode 313: Revisiting Hardware with Ingonyama

Zero Knowledge ·

2024/02/28

In this week’s episode, Anna (https://twitter.com/annarrose) chats with Omer Shlomovits (https://twitter.com/OmerShlomovits) and Yuval Domb (https://twitter.com/yuval_domb) from Ingonyama (https://www.ingonyama.com/). They go back to the start of the project, exploring Ingonyama’s initial vision for what ZK Hardware could be, how the field has evolved and how they are accelerating ZK Hardware today. The group discuss hardware product cycles, the hardware and algorithmic components, how a ZK ASIC is

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1:03:27

Episode 312: ZKP2P with Brian & Richard

Zero Knowledge ·

2024/02/21

In this week’s episode, Anna (https://twitter.com/annarrose) and Tarun (https://twitter.com/tarunchitra) interview Brian Weickmann (https://twitter.com/Bmwball56) & Richard Liang (https://twitter.com/richardzliang) from the ZKP2P (https://zkp2p.xyz/) project. They cover the opportunities and challenges of building ZK applications with the current tools available, as well as revisit the topic of ZK Email and explore how this lies at the heart of the current version of ZKP2P. They also discuss the

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1:18:44

Episode 311: The Launch of Celestia and Beyond

Zero Knowledge ·

2024/02/14

In this week’s episode, Anna (https://twitter.com/annarrose) and Guillermo (https://twitter.com/GuilleAngeris) chat with Yaz Khoury (https://twitter.com/Yazanator) and Ismail Khoffi (https://twitter.com/KreuzUQuer) from Celestia (https://twitter.com/celestiaorg). They share how the team prepared for the launch of the Celestia mainnet and what has been happening at Celestia since. They revisit the topic of DA (Data Availability) and explore how rollups and dApp developers can already use the Celestia

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1:06:42

Episode 310: Algorithmic Game Theory & PoS Tokenomics...

Zero Knowledge ·

2024/02/07

In this week’s episode, Anna (https://twitter.com/annarrose) and Tarun (https://twitter.com/tarunchitra) chat with Noam Nisan (https://twitter.com/noamnisan), Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (https://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~noam/), Principle Researcher at StarkWare Industries (https://starkware.co) and one of the pioneers in the field of Algorithmic Game Theory. They cover his extensive research and academic background, starting with his work on complexity theory as well as Algorithmic

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Episode 309: ZK Jargon Decoder with Nico Mohnblatt

Zero Knowledge ·

2024/01/31

** This episode uses visual aids and slides throughout, you may want to check out the video version here (https://youtu.be/UKiQ6jTsv4E)** In this week’s episode, Anna (https://twitter.com/annarrose) and Nico Mohnblatt (https://twitter.com/nico_mnbl) from Geometry Research (https://geometry.dev/about) host a ZK Jargon Decoder episode. Based on Nico’s ZK Jargon Decoder Website (https://nmohnblatt.github.io/zk-jargon-decoder/), they discuss some of the confusing terms and concepts commonly used by the

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1:17:05

Episode 308: Avail's Approach to DA with Prabal Banerjee

Zero Knowledge ·

2024/01/24

In this week’s episode, Anna (https://twitter.com/annarrose) catches up with Prabal Banerjee (https://twitter.com/prabalbanerjee), co-founder of Avail (https://www.availproject.org/). They deep dive into Prabal’s career, starting with his work in academia, his move to Polygon and to his spinning out the Avail project. They discuss how the project was built, tech decisions and the motivations behind them as well as their use of KZG, validity proofs and their position within the Ethereum and wider

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1:25:07

Episode 307: The Evolution of Aleo with Howard Wu &...

Zero Knowledge ·

2024/01/17

This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/annarrose) caught up on all things Aleo (https://aleo.org/) with Howard Wu (https://twitter.com/1HowardWu) co-founder of the Aleo Network & Alex Pruden (https://twitter.com/apruden08) executive director of the Aleo Foundation (https://aleo.org/post/announcing-aleo-foundation/). Howard was last on the show back in 2020 when Aleo was in its infancy, so the group dive into how the project has evolved over the last few years, covering lessons learned along the way as

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1:07:44

Episode 306: Predictions: ZK in 2024

Zero Knowledge ·

2024/01/10

In this week’s episode, Anna (https://twitter.com/annarrose) and cohosts Guillermo (https://twitter.com/GuilleAngeris), Kobi (https://twitter.com/kobigurk), Nico (https://twitter.com/nico_mnbl) and Tarun (https://twitter.com/tarunchitra) share their predictions, hopes (and worries) for ZK in 2024. They cover emerging ideas in ZK, research predictions, dream applications, the best case for ZK in 2024, the worst case for ZK, possible ‘Black Swans’ and more. ZK Hack IV online is coming soon, sign up

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Bonus: ZK Hack IV Online

Zero Knowledge ·

2024/01/03

No full episode this week. Just a brief message about the upcoming ZK Hack IV Online (www.zkhack.dev/zkhackIV). ZK Hack is a 4-week virtual event featuring weekly workshops, advanced puzzle solving competitions and a virtual ZK Jobs Fair. Find out more www.zkhack.dev/zkhackIV Sign up for the 1st session happening on Jan 16th: https://hopin.com/events/zkhackiv-1

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Episode 305: ZK Rewind: A Look Back at 2023

Zero Knowledge ·

2023/12/27

In this week’s episode, Anna (https://twitter.com/annarrose) catches up in person with Guillermo (https://twitter.com/GuilleAngeris), Tarun (https://twitter.com/tarunchitra) and Alex Evans (https://twitter.com/alexhevans) for a look back at 2023. They revisit their state of mind back in Jan 2023 and share how the year unfolded and evolved for each of them as well as the ZK space as a whole. They survey the themes, applications and research topics that dominated ZK throughout this year and offer

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1:04:09

Episode 304: Exploring FRI, LogUp and using M31 for...

Zero Knowledge ·

2023/12/20

In this week’s episode, host Anna Rose (https://twitter.com/annarrose) and cohost Nico Mohnblatt (https://twitter.com/nico_mnbl) catch up with Ulrich Haböck (https://twitter.com/UHaboeck), an applied cryptographer at Polygon Labs (https://polygon.technology/). This episode revolves around Ulrich’s journey into applied zero-knowledge cryptography, transitioning from an academic environment to being a full-time practitioner. They discuss his contributions to the field, including his many write-ups and

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1:08:51

Episode 303: A Dive into Binius with Ulvetanna

Zero Knowledge ·

2023/12/13

In this week's episode, Anna (https://twitter.com/annarrose) and cohost Brendan Farmer (https://twitter.com/_bfarmer) catch up with Jim Posen (https://twitter.com/jimpo_potamus) and Radi Cojbasic (https://twitter.com/radi_cojbasic) from Ulvetanna (https://www.ulvetanna.io/). They cover the origin story of Ulvetanna and their work on the ZK hardware/software intersection before moving on to discuss Binius, a new proving system they developed which is optimised for hardware. Binius is built on towers

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1:21:08

Episode 302: ZK for web2 interop with zkLogin & ZK Email

Zero Knowledge ·

2023/12/06

This week Anna (https://twitter.com/annarrose) and cohost Kobi (https://twitter.com/kobigurk) chat with both Kostas Kryptos (https://twitter.com/kostascrypto) from Mysten Labs (https://mystenlabs.com/), discussing the zkLogin project and Aayush Gupta (https://twitter.com/yush_g) representing the ZK Email + Email Wallet (https://twitter.com/zkemail) projects. They explore the use case of web2 onboarding into web3, through the lens of these two different projects which emerged independently but share

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