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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) If you like the Zero Knowledge Podcast: Join us on Telegram (https://t.me/joinchat/TORo7aknkYNLHmCM) Support our Gitcoin Grant (https://gitcoin.co/grants/38/zero-knowledge-podcast) Support us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/zeroknowledge) Or directly here: ETH: 0x4BF66E52f3009Cd138e48f142D47661037160001 BTC: 1cafekGa3podM4fBxPSQc6RCEXQNTK8Zz ZEC: t1R2bujRF3Hzte9ALHpMJvY8t5kb9ut9SpQ DOT: 14zPzb7ihiBeaUn9jdPW9cHKGBd9qtTuJE75hhW2CvzLh6rT
This week, Anna and Nico 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:
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 for the latest jobs in ZK at jobsboard.zeroknowledge.fm
Have you heard about o1Labs?
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 and join them as they shape the future of the zk-powered internet.
A new era of decentralized, privacy-preserving computing is here.
Aleo 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, or head on over to aleo.org to learn more about our technology and what you can build.
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This week Anna chats with Mikerah Quintyne-Collins from HashCloak and Stoffel Labs. They discuss how Mikerah got her start in the crypto space and then dive into the work she did at ChainSafe 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:
Check out the ZK Jobs Board for the latest jobs in ZK at jobsboard.zeroknowledge.fm
Aleo 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/.
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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 -
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.
This week Anna catches up with Zac Williamson & Ariel Gabizon from Aztec. They explore what’s new since they were both on the show last spring before diving into the pair’s work over the last year, covering everything from Zac’s contributions to Aztec 3 to Ariel’s latest research on IVC with his publications of the ProtoGalaxy and Stackproofs works.
Here’s some additional links for this episode:
Check out the ZK Jobs Board for the latest jobs in ZK at jobsboard.zeroknowledge.fm
zkSummit12 is happening in Lisbon next week on Oct 8th! Buy your ticket at zksummit.com, spots are limited!
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.
Aleo 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/.
If you like what we do:
This week Anna and Nico chat with Lukas Helminger and Ais Connolly from TACEO.
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 characteristics of these systems as well as how they can be applied in the real world.
Here’s some additional links for this episode:
Check out the ZK Jobs Board for the latest jobs in ZK at jobsboard.zeroknowledge.fm
zkSummit12 is happening in Lisbon on Oct 8th! Applications to attend are now open at zksummit.com, apply today as spots are limited!
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.
Aleo 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/.
If you like what we do:
This week Anna and Zaki Manian dive into the Cosmos 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 towards a central goal.
Here’s some additional links for this episode:
03:50 * Episode 286: Paris 2023 Recap with Uma, Zaki and Tarun
20:38 * Episode 263: Cosmos, Sommelier and Emerging Assets with Zaki Manian
32:16 * Episode 337: Restaking Research with Naveen & Tarun
55:11 * Cosmos SDK GitHub
Check out the ZK Jobs Board for the latest jobs in ZK at jobsboard.zeroknowledge.fm
zkSummit12 is happening in Lisbon on Oct 8th! Applications to attend are now open at zksummit.com, apply today as spots are limited!
Get ready to build with intention. Anoma is the universal intent machine, introducing a new era of applications where you define the outcomes you want.
Follow Anoma on X to learn more at x.com/anoma
Aleo 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/
If you like what we do:
In this week’s episode, Anna and Tarun catch up with Andrew Miller. 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
5:32 * SoK: Research Perspectives and Challenges for Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies by Bonneau, Miller, Clark, Narayanan, Kroll, Felten
11:45 * Zerocash: Decentralized Anonymous Payments from Bitcoin by Ben-Sasson, Chiesa, Garman, Green, Miers, Tromer, and Virza
21:33 * The Honey Badger of BFT Protocols by Miller, Xia, Croman, Shi, and Song
28:50 * DelegaTEE: Brokered Delegation Using Trusted Execution Environments by
Matetic, Schneider, Miller, Juels and Capkun
33:02 * Ratel: MPC-extensions for Smart Contracts by Li, Soska, Huang, Bellemare, Quintyne-Collins, Wang, Liu, Song and Miller
33:02 * Ekiden: A Platform for Confidentiality-Preserving, Trustworthy, and Performant Smart Contracts by Cheng, Zhang, Kos, He, Hynes, Johnson, Juels, Miller and Song
1:01:26 * Demo of IT from Xyn and Ryan
1:01:26 * Complete Knowledge: Preventing Encumbrance of Cryptographic Secrets by Kelkar, Babel, Daian, Austgen, Buterin and Juels
1:06:20 * Off-Chain Coordination via Liquefaction - James Austgen | MEV-SBC ’24
zkSummit12 is happening in Lisbon on Oct 8th! Applications to attend are now open at zksummit.com, apply today as tickets are limited!
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.
Aleo 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/.
If you like what we do:
This week Anna and Nico chat with Arnaud Schenk, one of the original co-founders of Aztec and creator of the Polaris Fellowship. 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 these solutions. They explore the history of computer culture, the rejection of institutions by mid-90s internet culture and how the seeds for this were set by the 60s counterculture.
Here’s some additional links for this episode:
05:09 * Episode 75: Exploring Aztec with Zac Williamson
05:09 * Episode 176: Zk-zk-rollup & zk.money with Zac and Joe from Aztec
05:09 * Episode 273: History of Plonk, Noir, and the building of Aztec 3
07:38 * Episode 237: Exploring ZK Research with Jens Groth
20:01 * Into the deep end: making sense of PLONK - Zac Williamson (CTO, Aztec Protocol)
23:55 * Collaborative Circles: Friendship Dynamics and Creative Work by Michael P. Farrell
27:05 * No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior by Joshua Meyrowitz
29:33 * On Trust Infrastructure by Arnaud Schenk
39:28 * Crypto's Three Body Problem by Lotti, Shorin, Hart
48:13 * Plurality philosophy in an incredibly oversized nutshell by Vitalik Buterin
52:21 * From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism by Fred Turner
52:21 * The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
Check out the ZK Jobs Board for the latest jobs in ZK at jobsboard.zeroknowledge.fm
zkSummit12 is happening in Lisbon on Oct 8th! Applications to attend are now open at zksummit.com, apply today as early bird tickets are limited!
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.
Aleo 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/.
If you like what we do:
In this week’s episode Anna and Tarun chat with Naveen Durvasula about his recent work ‘Robust Restaking Networks’. 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 restaking, to understand how they work and how they can be optimized.
Check out the ZK Jobs Board for the latest jobs in ZK at jobsboard.zeroknowledge.fm
zkSummit12 is happening in Lisbon on Oct 8th! Applications to attend are now open at zksummit.com, apply today as early bird tickets are limited!
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.
Aleo 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/.
If you like what we do:
In this week’s episode, Anna chats with Connor O’Hara from Celestia. After discussing the latest ZK Hack Montréal event 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 additional links for this episode:
Episode 311: The Launch of Celestia and Beyond
03:22 ZK Hack Montréal
08:08 ZK Hack Devfolio
24:33 Episode 151: John Adler on Optimistic vs ZK Rollup and the data availability problem
30:24 Episode 208: Digging into Data Availability with Ismail Khoffi from Celestia
41:26 Episode 220: The Road to Plonky2 with Brendan and Daniel from Polygon Zero
46:49 Vitalik Buterin Endgame Blog Post
49:41 Light Nodes Everywhere: Why & How - Connor O'Hara at Modulard Summit
56:29 ZK11: 1 Circuit, 5 Rollups: Building a Re-Usable DA Integration for ZK Rollups - Connor O'Hara
Check out the ZK Jobs Board for the latest jobs in ZK at jobsboard.zeroknowledge.fm
Get ready to build with intention. Anoma is the universal intent machine, introducing a new era of applications where you define the outcomes you want.
Follow Anoma on X to learn more at x.com/anoma
Aleo 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/.
If you like what we do:
Amanda is a wife. A mother. A blogger. A Christian.
A charming, beautiful, bubbly, young woman who lives life to the fullest.
But Amanda is dying, with a secret she doesn’t want anyone to know.
She starts a blog detailing her cancer journey, and becomes an inspiration, touching and
captivating her local community as well as followers all over the world.
Until one day investigative producer Nancy gets an anonymous tip telling her to look at Amanda’s
blog, setting Nancy on an unimaginable road to uncover Amanda’s secret.
Award winning journalist Charlie Webster explores this unbelievable and bizarre, but
all-too-real tale, of a woman from San Jose, California whose secret ripped a family apart and
left a community in shock.
Scamanda is the true story of a woman whose own words held the key to her secret.
New episodes every Monday.
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Amanda’s blog posts are read by actor Kendall Horn.
