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Zokrates with Jacob Eberhardt Sep 05, 2018

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In this episode, we had a chance to speak with Jacob Eberhardt about his work on Zokrates and the Zero Knowledge Proof Toolkit. Zokrates is a programming language & toolbox for zkSNARKS on Ethereum

Note: this is a relatively advanced episode as part of our Zero Knowledge Series.

For more on the Zokrates project, please explore the following material:

Zokrates Github - https://github.com/JacobEberhardt/ZoKrates
Devcon Presentation - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSlrywb5J_0
Berlin Ethereum Meetup slides https://github.com/JacobEberhardt/documents/blob/master/talks/ZoKrates-EthereumMeetupBerlin.pdf
zkSNARKs: Driver's Ed. - A practical beginner's guide to creating, proving, and verifying zkSNARKs in your contracts - https://github.com/jstoxrocky/zksnarks_example

Benedikt Bünz on Bulletproofs and Verifiable Delay Functions Aug 29, 2018

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In this episode, we speak to Benedikt Bünz, the author of Bulletproofs, about this novel zero knowledge proof system as well as about Verifiable Delay Functions.

This is part of our Zero Knowledge Series, where we explore some of the new research in the space of Zero Knowledge research and the emerging concepts.

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Matthew Di Ferrante on the security of blockchain clients Aug 22, 2018

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In this episode, we speak with Matthew Di Ferrante of the smart contract auditing firm Zero Knowledge Labs about security in the blockchain. Specifically we discuss how he first got interested in security and blockchain technology, some of the cases that have happened in the last few years and how the Ethereum security team responds to a security event.

If you want to learn more from Matt you can follow him here

This week's episode went long, so we are including this link to a bonus piece on governance

Intro to zkSNARKs with Howard Wu Aug 15, 2018

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In this episode, we sit down with Howard Wu to explore zkSNARKs, the challenges in the application of this awesome technology, the new ideas emerging for how to scale them and his latest work on DIZK.

This is the 2nd in our ongoing series about Zero Knowledge technologies. To get a good sense of Zero Knowledge Proofs, please listen to our introduction to the topic in Episode 21.

Howard Wu is an early member of Blockchain at Berkeley, the co-author of Libsnark, and a managing partner of Dekrypt Capital.

Links:

libsnark - https://github.com/scipr-lab/libsnark
libsnark-tutorial - https://github.com/howardwu/libsnark-tutorial
DIZK paper - https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/691
DIZK library - https://github.com/scipr-lab/dizk

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Sharding Update With Prysmatic Labs Aug 08, 2018

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In this episode, we sit down with Raul & Preston from Prysmatic Labs to discuss sharding, the evolution of the spec, Ethereum 2.0, what happens to a side chain during a hard fork, and whats coming up for this important scaling solution.

Prysmatic Labs is building a sharding solution in Go and the Ethereum 2.0 side chain that is set to combine PoS + Sharding.

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Eric Tang of Livepeer talks off-chain computation Aug 01, 2018

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In this episode, we speak with Eric Tang from Livepeer about the need for off-chain computation, what scenarios make sense for off-chain and which can work on-chain, how Livepeer sees its role in the ecosystem and how they aim to help more people livestream in a decentralised way.

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