In this week’s episode, Anna and Kobi chat with Shumo Chu, co-founder of Manta Network. They discuss the origin story of the project and how they aim to bring privacy to web3. They explore the unique accessibility that Polkadot parachains enable, the work they do on building ZK tooling and libraries for the general ZK community. They then take a look at their plans for a multi-asset shielded pool and the future they have planned for Manta projects and more.

Here are some links for this episode:

• Episode 226: Interoperability with Sergey Gorbunov from Axelar
• Episode 172: ZK languages with Alex Ozdemir
• Manta Network
• Manta: a Plug and Play Private DeFi Stack
• Dolphin Testnet
• ZK Garage
• Blog post: Enabling multi-asset privacy on Anoma
• plookup: A simplified polynomial protocol for lookup tables
• CirC: Compiler infrastructure for proof systems, software verification, and more

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Today’s episode is sponsored by Anoma.

Anoma is a suite of protocols that enable self-sovereign coordination. Anoma's first fractal instance, Namada, is planned for later in 2022, and it focuses on enabling shielded transfers for any assets with a few second transaction latency and near zero fees.

Visit anoma.net to learn more!

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