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Episode 256: New ZK Use Cases with Dan Boneh

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Ethereum - Trusted Setup on a Blockchain

Blockchains have anti-censorship capabilities, right? So the whole point of a blockchain is it's designed to make it possible for you to write. The interesting application here is if you try to run a trusted setup, maybe there is some network attacker that’s trying to prevent an honest participant from participating in the setup. And this turned out to be kind of an interesting question. How do you run a setup on a chain? It turns out there are kind of a couple of models here. You can imagine putting the entire powers of tow on theblockchain and then basically the chain will just verify that every update is done correctly. That works for small setups,. But what happens

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