Episode 242: Halo 2 with Daira Hopwood and Str4d Zero Knowledge

In this week’s episode, Anna explores Halo 2 with Daira Hopwood and Str4d, cryptographic engineers at Electric Coin Company. They explored what new ideas Halo introduced and how Halo 2 built on these ideas, adding optimisations such as adding Plonk-ish arithmetization to take what was a breakthrough to a production ready proving system.


This episode was recorded at Zcon3 in Vegas.


Here are some links for this episode:



Episode on Halo
Episode recorded at Zcon0
ZK Whiteboard Sessions
Episode with Sean Bowe
Halo 2 explained
Justin Drake on Polynomial Commitments
Str4d’s talk at ZCon3
Daira’s talk at ZCon3
Ying Tong’s talk at ZCon3
Pratyush Mishra at Zcon3
The halo2 Book: Proving System
The halo2 Book: Protocol
The halo2 Book: Sinsemilla




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