ZK: Can we do the same thing of like contact discovery, finding who your contacts are without ever having to upload your contacts? And without having to like broadcast, hey, I'm using signal. ZK: It's funny how like I had to say these things and did signal processing and it was doing like, Oh, yeah, music fun. Forgot about them. Get into ZK and suddenly like the pop up again. Yeah. Knew what you were talking about but not through music itself just because I'd done an electrical engineering degree before that time. Okay. So that project you were kind of telling us about this is, was that his like thesis at the time
This week, Anna Rose chats with ZK Podcast regular Guillermo Angeris, Head of Research at BCC and Nicolas Mohnblatt, Researcher and Cryptographer at Geometry. This was recorded on April 3rd 2023, the day between the ZK Hack Lisbon hackathon and the zkSummit9 event.
They discuss Nico's move from music to cryptography, his earlier privacy research as a Master's student, and his recent research Sangria, which is a folding scheme for Plonk. Guillermo shares some of his current work cleaning up and formalising concepts in zk. And Anna shares some brief thoughts about the recent release of zkpod.ai - the friendly ZK bot featuring Anna’s voice and containing the entirety of the ZKPodcast knowledge (built by Kobi Gurkan).
They also chat about some news, insights from ZK Hack Lisbon and some of the projects that were built there and generally check in on the state of the ecosystem.
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