Facebook spent a lot of money to improve on the community tools that we have today for a proof of solvency. We should credit Facebook for this, right? Because I don't know about battery reputation and other things that we mentioned at the very beginning. And because now the topic is super relevant, I think many other cryptographers should help. It's not the perfect solution, as I explained, because of synchronization and some other issues that you might face. However, without this, we have nothing. At least let's have a tool that can make the work of potential fraud or something more difficult to be performed.
This week, Anna explores the topic of proof of solvency with Kostas Chalkias, co-founder and chief of Cryptography at MystenLabs. They cover Kostas’ background in Cryptography and explore his work on Proof of Reserves, otherwise known as Proof of Solvency. They review past Proof of Solvency models using ZKPs and look at the protocols that major centralized exchanges are currently using. Then they dive into the security vulnerabilities, privacy issues, and general bugs that Kostas and his collaborators have identified in these protocols and their recommendations on how to better build Proof of Solvency systems.
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