Zero Knowledge

Summary This week, Anna (https://x.com/AnnaRRose) and Nico (https://x.com/nico_mnbl) take a look back at some of the ZK Events produced in 2024 by the ZK Podcast, ZK Hack and other adjacent projects. Starting with the live ZK Jargon Decoder hosted in January and spanning the 10 months since, Anna and Nico share behind-the-scenes anecdotes, highlight key talks from the events and share some insight into how the programs for the zkSummit events are created. They wrapped with a summary of some of the themes in ZK that got them talking this year and are tracking going forward. Don’t forget, this is the last episode of ZK Podcast before we take a pause in weekly shows for the rest of 2024 - but don’t worry we will be back! Further Reading: ZK HACK IV - ZK Jargon Decoder (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68AXfOR74cA) Episode 309 - ZK Jargon Decoder with Nico Mohnblatt (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKiQ6jTsv4E) ZK Hack Montréal (https://www.zkmontreal.com/) Under The Hood of zkID: - Nicolas Mohnblatt - Web3 Summit 2024 Berlin (https://youtu.be/JIZcDaPJjUg?si=-9eTMiQffKZA4U_j) Panel Discussion w/ Anna Rose, Jim Posen, Nicolas Mohnblatt - Web3 Summit 2024 Berlin (https://youtu.be/2AkMEYkU7yY?si=7y505ALxJBZlGNMl) zkSummit Website (https://www.zksummit.com/) zkSummit11 Playlist (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ao6ikWSgOY&list=PLj80z0cJm8QFy2umHqu77a8dbZSqpSH54) zkSummit12 Live Link (https://www.youtube.com/live/lVvct93zJz0?si=BKK-Uu7K9QjDakON) Episode 338: On Trust Infrastructure with Arnaud Schenk (https://zeroknowledge.fm/338-2/) Panel: ZK Applications (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UD_9yjRD3tc&t=673s) ZK Whiteboard Sessions - S2M1: What is Zero-Knowledge (like, actually)? with David Wong (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksTTyt0GTvQ&t=129s) While the show is taking a break, be sure to check out the ZK Whiteboard Sessions that are being produced by ZK Hack Check out the ZK Jobs Board (https://jobsboard.zeroknowledge.fm/) for the latest jobs in ZK at jobsboard.zeroknowledge.fm (https://jobsboard.zeroknowledge.fm/) Episode Sponsors Have you heard about o1Labs (https://www.o1labs.org/)? From o1js, their SDK for simplifying zk development, to o1VM pushing the limits of zkVMs, o1Labs is working directly with the community to build tools that unlock new possibilities. Visit o1labs.org (https://www.o1labs.org/) and join them as they shape the future of the zk-powered internet. A new era of decentralized, privacy-preserving computing is here. Aleo (http://aleo.org/) recently announced their mainnet launch. Start by learning their domain specific programming language, Leo, to write and deploy your first ZK application at leo-lang.org (http://leo-lang.org/), or head on over to aleo.org (http://aleo.org/) to learn more about our technology and what you can build. If you like what we do: * Find all our links here! @ZeroKnowledge | Linktree (https://linktr.ee/zeroknowledge) * Subscribe to our podcast newsletter (https://zeroknowledge.substack.com) * Follow us on Twitter @zeroknowledgefm (https://twitter.com/zeroknowledgefm) * Join us on Telegram (https://zeroknowledge.fm/telegram) * Catch us on YouTube (www.youtube.com/channel/UCYWsYz5cKw4wZ9Mpe4kuM_g)

Summary This week Anna (https://x.com/AnnaRRose) chats with Mikerah Quintyne-Collins (https://x.com/badcryptobitch) from HashCloak (https://x.com/hashcloak) and Stoffel Labs (https://x.com/StoffelMPC). They discuss how Mikerah got her start in the crypto space and then dive into the work she did at ChainSafe (https://chainsafe.io/) and eventually at HashCloak. They cover Mikerah’s work on privacy preserving tech like ZK, TEE and MPC and learn about what drives her tweet game and the wisdom she has picked up over the years as a technical founder, driven by curiosity… and memes. Here’s some additional links for this episode: ZK Mesh (https://zkmesh.substack.com/) @badcryptobitch Twitter (https://x.com/badcryptobitch) 03:24 Episode 40: Benedikt Bünz on Bulletproofs and Verifiable Delay Functions (https://zeroknowledge.fm/40-2/) 04:54 Ethereum Founder Vitalik talk 2017- What is Cryptoeconomics? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eotdyanxKV4) 11:03 “I will quite literally drop out if we got $100k in ETH” Tweet by Mikerah (https://x.com/badcryptobitch/status/1075184655609937920) 13:01 “I am being told I should brag more about co-inventing rollups” Tweet by Mikerah (https://x.com/badcryptobitch/status/1832057683970760734) 15:36 Building Scalable Decentralized Payment Systems by Adlerand Quintyne-Collins (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.06441) Check out the ZK Jobs Board (https://jobsboard.zeroknowledge.fm/) for the latest jobs in ZK at jobsboard.zeroknowledge.fm (https://jobsboard.zeroknowledge.fm/) Episode Sponsor Aleo (http://aleo.org/) is a new Layer-1 blockchain that achieves the programmability of Ethereum, the privacy of Zcash, and the scalability of a rollup. As Aleo is gearing up for their mainnet launch in Q1, this is an invitation to be part of a transformational ZK journey. Dive deeper and discover more about Aleo at http://aleo.org/ (http://aleo.org/). If you like what we do: * Find all our links here! @ZeroKnowledge | Linktree (https://linktr.ee/zeroknowledge) * Subscribe to our podcast newsletter (https://zeroknowledge.substack.com) * Follow us on Twitter @zeroknowledgefm (https://twitter.com/zeroknowledgefm) * Join us on Telegram (https://zeroknowledge.fm/telegram) * Catch us on YouTube (www.youtube.com/channel/UCYWsYz5cKw4wZ9Mpe4kuM_g)

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 be some additional episodes released this year (but no plans yet) * Keep an eye on our website (https://zeroknowledge.fm/) and twitter (https://x.com/zeroknowledgefm) for updates about the show (and soon an updated website!)

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 brought him and Zac to start working together again. Here’s some additional links for this episode: Episode 273: History of Plonk, Noir, and the building of Aztec 3 (https://zeroknowledge.fm/273-2/) Episode 274: SNARKs: A Trilogy with Ariel Gabizon (https://zeroknowledge.fm/274-2/) 5:51 * zkSummit: plookup: Speeding up the PLONK prover - Zac Williamson & Ariel Gabizon (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vdlc1CmRYRY) 10:49 * ProtoGalaxy: Efficient ProtoStar-style folding of multiple instances by Liam Eagen and Ariel Gabizon (https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1106.pdf) 13:01 * HyperNova: Recursive arguments for customizable constraint systems by Kothapalli and Setty (https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/573.pdf) 13:01 * ProtoStar: Generic Efficient Accumulation/Folding for Special Sound Protocols by Bünz and Chen (https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/620.pdf) 27:24 * cq: Cached quotients for fast lookups by Eagen, Fiore and Gabizon (https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/1763.pdf) 34:54 * Delegating Computation: Interactive Proofs for Muggles by Goldwasser, Kalai and Rothblum (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/2008-DelegatingComputation.pdf) 34:54 * Unlocking the lookup singularity with Lasso by Setty, Thaler and Wahby (https://people.cs.georgetown.edu/jthaler/Lasso-paper.pdf) 36:36 * Stackproofs: Private proofs of stack and contract execution using Protogalaxy by Eagen, Gabizon, Sefranek, Towa and Williamson (https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/1281.pdf) 54:32 * Accumulation without Homomorphism by Bünz, Mishra, Nguyen and Wang (https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/474.pdf) 55:24 * Aztec.network (https://aztec.network/) Check out the ZK Jobs Board (https://jobsboard.zeroknowledge.fm/) for the latest jobs in ZK at jobsboard.zeroknowledge.fm (https://jobsboard.zeroknowledge.fm/) zkSummit12 is happening in Lisbon next week on Oct 8th! Buy your ticket at zksummit.com (https://www.zksummit.com/), spots are limited! Episode Sponsors Attention, all projects in need of server-side proving, kick start your rollup with Gevulot's ZkCloud, the first zk-optimized decentralized cloud! Get started with a free trial plus extended grant opportunities for premier customers until Q1 2025. Register at Gevulot.com (https://gevulot.com/). Aleo (http://aleo.org/) is a new Layer-1 blockchain that achieves the programmability of Ethereum, the privacy of Zcash, and the scalability of a rollup. As Aleo is gearing up for their mainnet launch in Q1, this is an invitation to be part of a transformational ZK journey. Dive deeper and discover more about Aleo at http://aleo.org/ (http://aleo.org/). If you like what we do: * Find all our links here! @ZeroKnowledge | Linktree (https://linktr.ee/zeroknowledge) * Subscribe to our podcast newsletter (https://zeroknowledge.substack.com) * Follow us on Twitter @zeroknowledgefm (https://twitter.com/zeroknowledgefm) * Join us on Telegram (https://zeroknowledge.fm/telegram) * Catch us on YouTube (www.youtube.com/channel/UCYWsYz5cKw4wZ9Mpe4kuM_g)