ZK Snark - A Brief Introduction to Zero Knowledge Proofs

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Professor Alessandro Ciesa is a co-founder for ZKASH, and also Professor Don Song, who is a director for IC3. His work has primarily been around things like consensus mechanisms and generally in cryptography. And one particular area of interest for him has been zero knowledge proofs. This is an area where you can do so many fascinating things. He's helped with different initiatives such as Libsnark, which is the C++ library for ZK snarks.

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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