This chapter discusses early attempts to understand CK, struggles with reading CK papers, and experiences at a CK hack in Lisbon. It also covers the challenges and success of organizing and hosting a summit, reflecting on the hard work put into the event and positive feedback received. Various zero-knowledge systems and virtual machines, as well as the trend of companies using the prefix 'ZK', are also discussed.
In this week’s episode, Anna catches up in person with Guillermo, Tarun and Alex Evans for a look back at 2023. They revisit their state of mind back in Jan 2023 and share how the year unfolded and evolved for each of them as well as the ZK space as a whole. They survey the themes, applications and research topics that dominated ZK throughout this year and offer retrospective takes on how the ecosystem has changed.
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We are taking the next week off, but will return with our look forward to 2024 episode in the new year.
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ZK Hack IV online is coming soon, sign up for the kick-off session on 16th Jan here. For the latest news on the event check out the zhhack.dev/zkhackIV website.
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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