ZK Snarks - What Are the Challenges?

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ZK Snarks enable all sorts of interesting features, and the reason for that is because of these properties. Lip Snark itself is designed to be a monolithic process that runs on a single machine. A construction in Lip Snark can really only support up to 10 to 20 million gates. It's very clear that as we start to branch out into larger things, things that are more than just payments, we are going to start to hit that upper limit.

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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