Ariel Gabizon

Ariel Gabizon and Zac Williamson from Aztec discuss Plonk, a highly efficient SNARK construction. They explore Plonk's focus on Lagrange-bases, compare it to other constructions, and mention the influence of the Bayer groth permutation argument. They also discuss polynomial commitment schemes and optimizations, metrics and naming software libraries, the Plonk protocol, and enabling private value transfers and privacy preserving smart contracts.

In this week’s episode, we welcome Ariel Gabizon, previously a Electric Coin Company (Zcash) engineer and now a cryptographer working on zero knowledge constructions for Filecoin. Ariel has worked closely with some of the most exciting projects and researchers pushing the boundaries on zero knowledge research. He is also the person who discovered the Zcash bug (along with Sean Bowe and Zooko). In this episode, we explore his journey into the space, what inspires him, and what exciting new paradigms he is exploring today! Here are some of the articles and topics he mentions: Algebraic Methods for Interactive Proof SystemsECC (Zcash) Vulnerability Blog post https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernhard_Riemannhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_zeta_functionhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic_function_fieldhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmut_Hassehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasse_principlehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/André_WeilThank you to our sponsor this week StarkWare StarkWare will be presenting the StarkWare Sessions - on Sept 16th in Tel Aviv. The event will bring together some of the brightest minds in zero knowledge research from both the academic and application spheres. Topics that will be discussed are self-custodial trading, STARKs for Layer 1, STARK-friendly hash functions and other cool things you can do with STARK proofs.Use the code Zkpodcast for 20% off the tickets - > https://starkware.co/starkware-sessions/If you like what we do: Follow us on Twitter - @zeroknowledgefmJoin us on Telegram - https://t.me/joinchat/B_81tQ57-ThZg8yOSx5gjASupport our Gitcoin Grant - https://gitcoin.co/grants/38/zero-knowledge-podcastSupport us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/zeroknowledge Or directly here: ETH: 0xC0FFEE1B5083230a5154F55f253B6b6ae8F29B1aBTC: 1cafekGa3podM4fBxPSQc6RCEXQNTK8ZzZEC: t1R2bujRF3Hzte9ALHpMJvY8t5kb9ut9SpQ