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Episode 284: Using Formal Verification on ZK Systems with Jon Stephens

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The Importance of Having Additional Validation in ZK Circuits

Right now there are people who are trying to combine ZK circuits with like D apps right and so one thing that they'll do is they might have some mitigation but that might not actually exist in the circuit itself. So for example you can consider the case where there's a miracle tree in order to validate that something exists in a miracle tree you're ultimately going to end up calculating a root. There's no way for the ZK circuit to know what the proper root is unless you've hard coded it. As well I guess because you'd have to be breaking both.

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