There's a few different projects that are really looking at zero knowledge proofs and specifically on things like ZK SNARKs and ZK Starks. Owen Labs is one, this is with Isaac Mecler and folks there who basically have developed an approach to scale blockchain storage using ZK SNarks. I think that right now there's just an amalgam of different initiatives that are happening formal and informal in the ecosystem. Where do we go next? Do we look at hardware or things like that? I think it's an open question for everybody and that's why everyone's so excited about it.
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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