Summary
In this week’s episode,
Anna and
Guille catch up with
Joe Bonneau, Assistant Professor at
NYU and Research Partner at
a16z crypto research. They discuss the research Joe has been working on since he was last on the show in 2019, including
Naysayer proofs,
Zero-Knowledge Middleboxes,
Sealed-Bid Auctions, and other ZK-related research projects to date.
Here’s some additional links for this episode:
- Episode 103: Exploring VDFs with Joseph Bonneau
- Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies by Narayanan, Bonneau, Felten, Miller and Goldfeder
- Verifiable Delay Functions Dan Boneh, Joseph Bonneau, Benedikt Bunz, and Ben Fisch
- Naysayer proofs by Seres, Glaeser and Bonneau
- Sealed-Bid Auctions
- DARPA SIEVE Project
- Zombie: Middleboxes that Don’t Snoop by Zhang, DeStefano, Arun, Bonneau, Grubbs and Walfish
- Zero-Knowledge Middleboxes by Grubbs, Arun, Zhang, Bonneau and Walfish
- jbonneau.com
- Riggs: Decentralized Sealed-Bid Auctions by Tyagi, Arun, Freitag, Wahby and Mazières
- Cicada: A framework for private non-interactive on-chain auctions and voting by Glaeser, Seres, Zhu, and Bonneau
- Atomic and Fair Data Exchange via Blockchain by Tas, Seres, Zhang, Melczer, Kelkar, Bonneau and Nikolaenko
- Zero Knowledge Summit (zkSummit) 2024: Field notes
ZK Hack Montreal is happening on Aug 9 - 11. Don’t miss your chance to join, apply now to participate in the hackathon
here.
zkSummit12 is happening in Lisbon on Oct 8th! Applications to speak or attend are now open at
zksummit.com, speaker applications close Aug 15th and early bird tickets for attendance are limited!
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