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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
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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
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    Episode 317: Enhancing On-Chain Intelligence with Ritual

    Episode 317: Enhancing On-Chain Intelligence with Ritual

    This week, Anna and Tarun chat with Niraj Pant and Anish Agnihotri from Ritual. 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 for this episode:



    Episode 216: A Dip into the Mempool & MEV with Project Blanc
    Episode 246: Adversarial Machine Learning Research with Florian Tramèr
    Episode 314: Succinct’s Platform, Prover Network and SP1
    FrenRug Website
    Mistral 7B by Jiang, Sablayrolles, Mensch, Bamford, Chaplot, De Las Casas, Bressand, Lengyel, Lample, Saulnier, Lavaud, Lachaux, Stock, Le Scao, Lavril, Wang, Lacroix, El Sayed
    docs.ritual.net
    Infernet by Ritual
    ML Quickstart Guide by Ritual
    Web3 Quickstart Guide by Ritual




    zkSummit11 happens in 2 weeks, if you haven’t got your tickets yet head over to the zkSummit website to apply now. The event will be held on 10 April in Athens, Greece.




    Check out the ZK Jobs Board




    Aleo is a new Layer-1 blockchain that achieves the programmability of Ethereum, the privacy of Zcash, and the scalability of a rollup.

    Dive deeper and discover more about Aleo at http://aleo.org/




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    • 1 hr 8 min
    Bonus: zkSummit11 reminder!

    Bonus: zkSummit11 reminder!

    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


    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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    Episode 316: Alin Tomescu on Distributed On-chain Randomness and Keyless Accounts

    Episode 316: Alin Tomescu on Distributed On-chain Randomness and Keyless Accounts

    In this week’s episode, Anna and Nico chat with Alin Tomescu, founding team member and Head of Cryptography at Aptos Labs. 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 have taken.




    Here’s some additional links for this episode:



    Episode 302: ZK for web2 interop with zkLogin & ZK Email
    Episode 156: Stateless Validation with Alin Tomescu
    Episode 227: Move & Sui with Sam Blackshear from Mysten Labs
    Aptos Developer Documentation
    OpenPubkey: Augmenting OpenID Connect with User held Signing Keys by Heilman, Mugnier, Filippidis, Goldberg, Lipman, Marcus, Milano, Premkumar and Unrein
    Aptos Keyless Accounts slides
    Aptos Improvement Proposal (AIP) on Keyless Accounts
    Aptos Randomness API in Move slides
    Aptos Randomness API in Move slides presented by Alin Tomescu
    Aptos Improvement Proposal (AIP) on the Move Randomness APIs




    Check out the ZK Jobs Board




    Applications to attend zkSummit11 are now open, head over to the zkSummit website to apply now. The event will be held on 10 April in Athens, Greece.




    Launching soon, Namada is a proof-of-stake L1 blockchain focused on multichain, asset-agnostic privacy, via a unified shielded set. Namada is natively interoperable with fast-finality chains via IBC, and with Ethereum using a trust-minimised bridge.

    Follow Namada on Twitter @namada for more information and join the community on Discord discord.gg/namada.




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    • 1 hr 1 min
    Episode 315: ZK Hack Ecosystem & Winners of ZK Hack IV

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

    This week’s episode is a little different from the usual and is split into two parts with Anna and Kobi 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 chatting the top 3 hackers from ZK Hack IV Online, which wrapped back in February. Each mini interview catches up with one of the winners and dives into what it was like to hack on the puzzles, which their favourites were and how they can be improved in the future.




    Here’s some additional links for this episode:



    ZK Jobs Board
    ZK Hack Website
    Episode 211: It’s a wrap! ZK Hack Takeaways & What’s Next!
    ZK HACK IV - Overview & Workshop Introductions: map featured at 1m28s
    ZK Hack Discord
    ZK Hack Whiteboard Sessions
    Proofs, Arguments, and Zero-Knowledge by Justin Thaler
    ZK Hack Whiteboard Session 1 - What is a SNARK? with Dan Boneh
    ZK Hack Whiteboard Session 2 - Building a SNARK (Part I) with Dan Boneh
    ZK Hack Whiteboard Session 3 - Building a SNARK (Part II) with Dan Boneh
    Groth16 Malleability by Geometry
    Episode 309: ZK Jargon Decoder with Nico Mohnblatt
    Zellic Wins Second Place in ZK Hack IV Blog
    SSTIC
    Techiepriyansh GitHub
    Sampritipanda GitHub
    Niooss-ledger GitHub




    Applications to attend zkSummit11 are now open, head over to the zkSummit website to apply now. The event will be held on 10 April in Athens, Greece.




    Aleo is a new Layer-1 blockchain that achieves the programmability of Ethereum, the privacy of Zcash, and the scalability of a rollup.

    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:



    Find all our links here! @ZeroKnowledge | Linktree
    Subscribe to our podcast newsletter
    Follow us on Twitter @zeroknowledgefm
    Join us on Telegram
    Catch us on YouTube

    • 1 hr 12 min
    Episode 314: Succinct's Platform, Prover Network and SP1

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

    In this week’s episode, Anna and Tarun catch up with Uma Roy, CEO and cofounder of Succinct. 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 evolved, the competitive landscape, the future for the project and much more.




    Here’s some additional links for this episode:



    Introducing Blobstream by Celestia
    Succinct Labs SP1 GitHub
    ZK Jobs Board
    Episode 255: Verifying Consensus On-Chain with Succinct
    Episode 286: Paris 2023 Recap with Uma, Zaki and Tarun
    [Alpha Succinct](alpha.succinct.xyz)
    Hugging Face AI
    Episode 296: Zeth, Bonsai and RISC Zero with Brian and Jeremy
    Episode 251: Exploring RISC Zero with Brian Retford and Jeremy Bruestle
    Understanding Lasso and Jolt, from theory to code by Ragsdale, Zhu and Thaler




    Applications to attend zkSummit11 are now open, head over to the zkSummit website to apply now. The event will be held on 10 April in Athens, Greece.




    Launching soon, Namada is a proof-of-stake L1 blockchain focused on multichain, asset-agnostic privacy, via a unified shielded set. Namada is natively interoperable with fast-finality chains via IBC, and with Ethereum using a trust-minimised bridge.

    Follow Namada on Twitter @namada for more information and join the community on Discord discord.gg/namada.




    If you like what we do:



    Find all our links here! @ZeroKnowledge | Linktree
    Subscribe to our podcast newsletter
    Follow us on Twitter @zeroknowledgefm
    Join us on Telegram
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    • 1 hr 7 min
    Episode 313: Revisiting Hardware with Ingonyama

    Episode 313: Revisiting Hardware with Ingonyama

    In this week’s episode, Anna chats with Omer Shlomovits and Yuval Domb from Ingonyama. 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 developed, they review some of the latest research from Ingonyama and more.




    Here’s some additional links for this episode:



    Episode 158: Threshold Cryptography with Omer Shlomovits from ZenGo
    Episode 258: Ultrasound Money & VRFs with Justin Drake
    The first ever SNARK proving ASIC tweet by drakefjustin
    Episode 266: ZK Hardware Sessions with Zprize Pt. 1
    Episode 267: ZK Hardware Sessions with Zprize Pt. 2
    ZK10: ZPU: The Zero-Knowledge Processing Unit - Yuval Domb
    Supranational Website
    Accseal Twitter
    Episode 311: The Launch of Celestia and Beyond
    Episode 308: Avail’s Approach to DA with Prabal Banerjee
    Episode 301: EigenLayer @ Devconnect
    ICICLE GitHub by Igonyama
    Lazzo + Jolt by a16z
    HyperPlonk: Plonk with Linear-Time Prover and High-Degree Custom Gates by Chen, Bünz, Boneh and Zhang E
    The Sum-Check Protocol over Fields of Small Characteristic by Thaler
    Episode 303: A Dive into Binius with Ulvetanna
    Sumcheck 201 Paper by Ingonyama




    Applications to attend zkSummit11 are now open, head over to the zkSummit website to apply now. The event will be held on 10 April in Athens, Greece.




    Aleo is a new Layer-1 blockchain that achieves the programmability of Ethereum, the privacy of Zcash, and the scalability of a rollup.

    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:



    Find all our links here! @ZeroKnowledge | Linktree
    Subscribe to our podcast newsletter
    Follow us on Twitter @zeroknowledgefm
    Join us on Telegram
    Catch us on YouTube

    • 1 hr 15 min

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Bankless and ZK are essential listening

For the builders in this industry. Very well researched.

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Easily the best technical podcast in the blockchain space

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