It feels like there should be a standard way to write these circuits because then you could kind of transform them or like transport them between different library implementations. This was something that I had brought up last year in 2017 at DevCon when some of the ZKesh folks were discussing the fact that there's these libraries popping up and from my point of view it seems like standardization was a border at some point. There just isn't a standard form. And so that's where earlier this year in May of 2018, there was a ZK standards workshop that was set up out in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was basically meant to bring the different folks who work on ZKesh and ARCs together
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.
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