This week, host Anna Rose chats with Finch, Erwan and Jen from the Penumbra team. They share an update about Penumbra and discuss how this zk-powered project works under the hood. Specifically, how Penumbra harnesses ZK to offer new paradigms for staking, voting and trading.

Here’s some additional links for this episode:

• Episode 247: Exploring Penumbra with Henry de Valence
• Penumbra Storage
• Penumbra GitHub
• ZK8: How to build a private DEX - Henry de Valence - Penumbra
• ZK8: Tiered Merkle Topiary in Rust – finch – Penumbra Labs
• Plaidfinch (Penumbra) - Interchain Private Trading with Penumbra
• Privacy in Cosmos Live: Finch (Penumbra)- Full-Stack Private Protocol Design
• A pure-Rust implementation of group operations on Ristretto and Curve25519
• curve25519-dalek Github
  
• Replicating Market Makers by Angeris, Evans, Chitra
• SecureDrop

Further reading;

• Penumbra’s DEX Arrives From The Future
• How to See in the Dark: Navigating Penumbra
• Private Governance on Penumbra
• Bringing Zero-Knowledge Proofs to Penumbra
• Introducing Poseidon377, our instantiation of a SNARK-friendly hash
• Testnet #4: Shielded Staking Is Here

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