Zero Knowledge with Brandon H Gomes

This is a special episode.

Today I’m joined by Brandon H Gomes, CTO at Manta Network and Poseidon Labs. Brandon is one of the smartest people I’ve had the good fortune to meet this year. He’s deep in the ZK technical stack and able to clearly communicate the core mechanisms of ZK to laypeople.

In this episode, we discuss what Zero Knowledge Proofs enable, the difference between ZK as a technology and its specific application for rollups, and various cool things you can do with ZK. Brandon shares his candid opinions of the ZK protocol landscape, and what the best path is for Solidity devs interested in building ZK applications today. We discuss a ZK powered Poker game he’s building at ETHSF, and we explore the Solidity compatible ZK future that he and his colleagues are working towards at Poseidon Labs.

This was one of my favorite episodes of the show yet. It was a pleasure getting to learn from Brandon. I hope you enjoy the show.

Topics Discussed

- Brandon’s Twitter and Github
- Efficient Zero-Knowledge Argument for Correctness of a Shuffle by Bayer and Groth (PDF)
- Circom
- Jessy’s Hacker House founder @13yearoldvc
- Brandon and Shumo explaining Poseidon (YouTube)
- Porter’s Youtube ZK series
- Brandon’s new project OpenZL
- Manta Network
- Poseidon