In this week’s episode, Anna checks in with Aztec, a ZK-based privacy L2 project. She speaks with Joe Andrews and Lead Engineer, Charles Julian. They discuss some of the team’s most important ZK research and implementations such as Plonk and how bringing privacy to Ethereum could truly change the way we do DeFi. They also discuss Aztec Connect and how it relates to zk.money, the Aztec roadmap with future projects like DSL Noir and Aztec 3, as well as a quick postmortem on the halted Aztec Connect launch. Here are some links for this episode: Ep 176: Zk-zk-rollup & zk.money with Zac and Joe from Aztec Ep 75: Exploring Aztec with Zac Williamson Ep 232: Cutting Edge ZK Research with Mary Maller AZTEC Trusted Setup PLONK: Permutations over Lagrange-bases for Oecumenical Noninteractive arguments of Knowledge AztecProtocol/barretenberg: C++ elliptic curve library | GitHub AztecProtocol/aztec-connect-bridges | GitHub If you are looking to jump into ZK professionally, check out the ZK Jobs board to find job posts from some of the top teams working in ZK – like Aleo, Anoma and Mina. If you’re looking to hire, be sure to add your jobs as well! More at ZK Jobs Board. Today’s episode is sponsored by Aleo. Aleo is a new Layer-1 blockchain that achieves the programmability of Ethereum, the privacy of Zcash, and the scalability of a rollup. If you’re building private applications - then check out Aleo’s programming language called Leo which enables non-cryptographers to harness the power of ZKPs. Visit leo-lang.org to start building. You can also participate in Aleo’s incentivized testnet3 by downloading and running a snarkOS node. No sign-up is necessary to participate. For questions, join their Discord at [aleo.org/discord](aleo.org/discord) If you like what we do: Find all our links here! Subscribe to our podcast newsletter Follow us on Twitter @zeroknowledgefm Join us on Telegram Catch us on Youtube Head to the ZK Community Forum Support our Gitcoin Grant

In this week’s episode, we throwback to a sake-fueled conversation between Anna and returning guest Guillermo Angeris, recorded in April during DevConnect in Amsterdam. They cover Guillermo’s personal journey into math, math history in general, how to bring more people into the space and the potential opportunities and downsides of bringing some kinds of math mainstream. It is a bit of different one, but hope you enjoy! Here are some links for this episode: Ep 173: Building Private AMMs with Guillermo Angeris Ep 206: Distilling DeFi Primitives with Guillermo, Alex and Tarun Ep 212: 2021 < 2022 with Co-hosts & Friends Ep 228: Catch-up at DevConnect with Friends Grigori Perelman - Wikipedia Banach–Tarski Paradox - Wikipedia Understanding ZKPs Through Simple Examples Convex Analysis - Wikipedia Stephen P. Boyd - Wikipedia Four Color Theorem - Wikipedia A History of Mathematics/Middle Ages/Europe During the Middle Ages The ZK Podcast team is growing! We're looking to hire an additional content producer to join us. There's a job posting for this content producer over on the ZK jobs board. Learn more and apply here. Today’s episode is sponsored by Anoma Anoma is a suite of protocols that enable self-sovereign coordination. Their unique architecture facilitates efficiently the simplest forms of economic coordination such as two parties transferring an asset to each other. As well as more sophisticated ones like an asset agnostic bartering system involving multiple parties without direct “coincidence of wants”; or even more complex ones such as “N-party” collective commitments to solve multipolar traps – where any interaction can be performed with adjustable zero-knowledge privacy. Visit Anoma to learn more! If you like what we do: Find all our links here! @ZeroKnowledge | Linktree Subscribe to our podcast newsletter Follow us on Twitter @zeroknowledgefm Join us on Telegram Catch us on Youtube Head to the ZK Community Forum Support our Gitcoin Grant

In this week’s episode, Anna and Tarun chat with Ye Zhang and Haichen Shen, the founders of Scroll - a native zkEVM Layer 2 Solution for Ethereum. They cover the founding of Scroll, the problems they aim to solve with their native zkEVM layer 2 solution, why scaling Ethereum is important, the philosophy of their zkEVM, and how this differs from other proposals as well as potential use cases or products that could benefit from the system. They wrap up with an exploration of how DApps and products on top of such as zkEVM may interact with the mainchain and with other applications. Here are some links for this episode: Scroll Scroll Tech Github Scroll Whitepaper Episode 194: zkEVM with Jordi and David from Polygon Hermez Andrew Miller at UIUC Ethereum Yellow Paper Ethereum Design Decisions The ZK Podcast team is growing! We're looking to hire an additional content producer to join us. There's a job posting for this role over on the ZK Jobs Board. Learn more and apply here. Today’s episode is sponsored by Anoma Anoma is a suite of protocols that enable self-sovereign coordination. Their unique architecture facilitates efficiently the simplest forms of economic coordination such as two parties transferring an asset to each other. As well as more sophisticated ones like an asset agnostic bartering system involving multiple parties without direct “coincidence of wants”; or even more complex ones such as “N-party” collective commitments to solve multipolar traps – where any interaction can be performed with adjustable zero-knowledge privacy. Visit Anoma to learn more! If you like what we do: Find all our links here! @ZeroKnowledge | Linktree Subscribe to our podcast newsletter Follow us on Twitter @zeroknowledgefm Join us on Telegram Catch us on Youtube Head to the ZK Community Forum Support our Gitcoin Grant

In this week’s episode, Anna chats with Rahul Magani, the Applied ZK Lead at Jump Crypto, and Hendrik Hofstadt, Project Lead at (Wormhole Crypto)[https://twitter.com/wormholecrypto]. They look at how Wormhole first came to be, the challenges of interoperability, the design decisions they made in balancing security, speed and functionality, the risks facing these types of solutions, including the famous Wormhole hack, what the future holds and how they aim to explore using zk in bridging. Here are some links for this episode: Ep 230: Designing Optimistic Interoperability with Nomad Ep 232: Cutting Edge ZK Research with Mary Maller Jump Crypto Wormhole Repository Wormhole Portal Bridge Jump Trading Group Key Pillars of Crypto Infrastructure Pyth Network Serum Project Fiat-Shamir Vulnerability Jump Trading Bug Bounties BN254 Curve Standard PlonK Proof System Nova Proof System Manta: a Plug and Play Private DeFi Stack BLS12-377 curve operations Wormhole Hack Report The ZK Tech side round on Gitcoin starts today and runs until June 23rd. During this CLR matching round funds that are donated to the ZK tech side round are matched from our 100K matching pool. This initiative is led by 0xPARC and zkValidator, as well as our fantastic matching partners from the ecosystem. Visit gitcoin.co to get your grant in and choose the tag ZK tech to be eligible to our matching pool. Today’s episode is sponsored by Anoma Anoma is a suite of protocols that enable self-sovereign coordination. Their unique architecture facilitates efficiently the simplest forms of economic coordination such as two parties transferring an asset to each other. As well as more sophisticated ones like an asset agnostic bartering system involving multiple parties without direct “coincidence of wants”; or even more complex ones such as “N-party” collective commitments to solve multipolar traps – where any interaction can be performed with adjustable zero-knowledge privacy. Visit Anoma to learn more. If you like what we do: Find all our links here! @ZeroKnowledge | Linktree Subscribe to our podcast newsletter Follow us on Twitter @zeroknowledgefm Join us on Telegram Catch us on Youtube Head to the ZK Community Forum Support our Gitcoin Grant

In this week’s episode, Anna and co-host Kobi Gurkan chat with Mary Maller, a ZK Researcher at the Ethereum Foundation. They cover Mary’s journey into cryptography, her work on trusted setups, universal SNARKs and Plookup tables. They also discuss the work she and Kobi did on aggregatable DKGs, what working on research at the EF is like and more. Here are some links for this episode: Caulk: Lookup Arguments in Sublinear Time Aggregatable Distributed Key Generation Reaching Consensus For Asynchronous Distributed Key Generation Updatable and Universal Common Reference Strings with Applications to zk-SNARKs Marlin: Preprocessing zkSNARKs with Universal and Updatable SRS SNARKBlock: Federated Anonymous Blocklisting from Hidden Common Input Aggregate Proofs SnarkPack: Practical SNARK Aggregation R1Cs ZK Hack Puzzles Ep 133: Trusted Setup Ceremonies Explored Ep 93: Light clients & ZKPs with Celo Bonus ZK Hack Wrap with Kobi! Mary's Github: mmaller - GitHub Check out the @ZeroKnowledge Linktree to find our community links and stay in the loop on upcoming events & more! If you're building something ZK and could benefit from some early funding – ZKValidator and 0xPARC bring you another ZK Tech Side Round on Gitcoin - GR14. This round has at least $100K in matching pool. The round starts on June 8th and runs for two weeks. Matching is based on your quadratic voting score (lots of small donations are better than a few big ones). Be sure to choose the tag #zktech to be eligible! Today's episode is sponsored by Penumbra. Penumbra is a cross-chain shielded pool and decentralized exchange, allowing users to shield assets from any IBC connected chain and privately transact stake, swap and market make without revealing their personal information or trading strategies to the world. Visit penumbra.zone to learn more, use the Testnet, and join their discord. If you like what we do: Find all our links here! @ZeroKnowledge | Linktree Subscribe to our podcast newsletter Follow us on Twitter @zeroknowledgefm Join us on Telegram Catch us on Youtube Head to the ZK Community Forum Support our Gitcoin Grant

In this week’s episode, Anna chats with Julien Niset, co-founder of Argent, about crypto wallets. They explore the history of wallet landscape, the interfaces we use for the decentralized web, the importance of account abstraction, smart contract wallets and Argent’s bet on ZK rollups. Here are some links for this episode: Episode 24: Blockchain UX and the UXUnConf Argent Argent Labs | Github What is an 'EOA' account? EIP-1271: Standard Signature Validation Method for Contracts zkSync Starkware Find all our links here! If you are looking to jump into ZK professionally, check out the ZK Jobs board to find job posts from some of the top teams working in ZK – like Aleo, Anoma and Mina. If you’re looking to hire, be sure to add your jobs as well! More at ZK Jobs Board. Today’s episode is sponsored by Polygon Hermez. The Polygon Hermez zk-rollup is a layer 2 built on top of Ethereum that solves its scalability through mass transfer processing rolled into a single transaction. Zero-knowledge proofs are used to present and publicly record the validity and correctness of the rolled transfers processed on the Ethereum blockchain. Visit polygon.technology to learn more about Polygon Hermez and other Polygon solutions. If you like what we do: Find all our links here! Subscribe to our podcast newsletter Follow us on Twitter @zeroknowledgefm Join us on Telegram Catch us on Youtube Head to the ZK Community Forum Support our Gitcoin Grant

In this week’s episode, Anna catches up with Anna Caroll and James Prestwich from Nomad. Together they explore the Nomad optimistic interoperability solution, how it first was developed, what lessons it takes from previous attempts at interoperability and cross-chain bridging, how the system works and more. Here are some links for this episode: Ep 118: Tarun and James talk Flash Loans & more | ZK Podcast Ep 34: Blockchain 101: What are smart contracts? | ZK Podcast The Balance Wheel | prestwi.ch The Interoperability Trilemma | medium.com Optimistic Bridges | blog.connext.network Connext Has Partnered With Nomad | blog.connext.network Nomad | Home @nomad-xyz | Github @prestwich | Github If you are looking to jump into ZK professionally, check out the ZK Jobs Board. ZKValidator is looking for a Junior Researcher who is interested in exploring and writing about emerging fields of cryptography like ZKPs, Proof-of-Stake, Bridges, Rollups, MEV, and other cutting edge meta blockchain topics. Check out the ad here. Today’s episode is sponsored by Polygon Hermez. The Polygon Hermez zk-rollup is a layer 2 built on top of Ethereum that solves scalability issues through mass transfer processing rolled into a single transaction. ZKPs are used to present and publicly record the validity and correctness of the rolled transfers processed on the Ethereum blockchain. By storing just the proof and the compressed data of a batch of transfers, the efficiency and the throughput of the network is multiplied. Visit polygon.technology to learn more about Polygon Hermez and other Polygon solutions. If you like what we do: Subscribe to our podcast newsletter Follow us on Twitter @zeroknowledgefm Join us on Telegram Catch us on Youtube Head to the ZK Community Forum Support our Gitcoin Grant

In this week’s episode, Anna dives back into the Polkadot world with friend and occasional co-host Rob Habermeier from Parity. They cover XCM - the Cross-Consensus Messaging format - and how XCM allows parachains to speak to one another, passing messages through the validators on the relay chain via XCMP Cross-Chain Message Passing. Here are some links for this episode: @paritytech | Github @Polkadot | Twitter @rphmeier | Twitter @paritytech/polkadot | Github Ep 83: From Warp Sync to SPREE with Polkadot's Rob Habermeier | ZK Podcast Ep 15: Chatting about consensus algorithms with Robert Habermeier | ZK Podcast @paritytech/xcm-format | Github Kusama, Polkadot's Canary Network | kusama.network Sub0 Online: Getting Started with XCM - Your First Cross Chain Messages Pallets | docs.substrate.io Substrate.io Statemine | parachains.info Polkadot Bridges Connecting The Polkadot Ecosystem With External Networks | polkadot.network Learn Spree | wiki.polkadot.network Cloaking Device | memory-alpha.fandom.com If you are looking to jump into ZK professionally, check out the ZK Jobs Board to find openings from some of the top teams working in ZK - like Aleo, Anoma and Mina. If you’re looking to hire, be sure to add your jobs as well! More at ZK Jobs Board ZKValidator is looking for a Junior Researcher who is interested in exploring and writing about Zero Knowledge and other emerging fields of cryptography, Proof-of-Stake, Bridges, Rollups, MEV, and other cutting edge meta blockchain topics. If this sounds like you, check out the add here and get in touch! Today’s episode is sponsored by Polygon Miden. Polygon Miden is layer 2 scaling solution for Ethereum. Miden relies on ZK-STARKs to roll-up thousands of layer 2 transactions into a single Ethereum transaction, increasing throughput and reducing fees. At the heart of Polygon Miden is Miden VM, a Turing-complete STARK-based virtual machine which provides a level of safety and support of advanced features currently not available on Ethereum. Visit polygon.technology to learn more about Polygon Miden and other Polygon solutions. If you like what we do: Subscribe to our podcast newsletter Follow us on Twitter @zeroknowledgefm Join us on Telegram Catch us on Youtube Head to the ZK Community Forum Support our Gitcoin Grant

In this week’s episode, Anna catches up with Tarun, Guillermo and Brendan at DevConnect Amsterdam to cover a range of interesting and random topics like how blockchain and AI thinking differs, where it could intersect and how ZK tech could be implemented, how science could benefit from more adversarial testing, why peer review is broken, math theory, takeaways from DevConnect and more! Here are some links for this episode: DevConnet AMS 2022 zkSummit 7 in Amsterdam zkSummit 7 Talk Videos | YouTube Playlist Einstein Notation | Wikipedia Wordcels vs. Shape Rotators, Explained Diplomacy game P-Value Explained Topology What is measure theory? ZK Validator is hiring! ZKValidator is looking for a Junior Researcher who is interested in exploring and writing about Zero Knowledge and other emerging fields of cryptography, Proof-of-Stake, Bridges, Rollups, MEV, and other cutting edge meta blockchain topics. If this sounds like you, check out the add here and get in touch: https://jobsboard.zeroknowledge.fm/job/144/junior-blockchain-researcher/ Today’s episode is sponsored by Zcash Community Grants. Zcash Community Grants is a grants program within the Zcash ecosystem that funds projects that advance the usability, security, privacy, and adoption of Zcash. Their primary areas of focus include wallets, core and security, interoperability, Zcash apps, ongoing services, education, ecosystem, and community. Previously awarded grants have ranged in size and scope - from a $3,000 grant to a $1.2M dollar grant. To apply for a Zcash Community Grant and contribute towards the development of the Zcash protocol, visit the Zcash Grants Hub at zcashgrants.org. If you like what we do: Subscribe to our podcast newsletter Follow us on Twitter @zeroknowledgefm Join us on Telegram Catch us on Youtube Head to the ZK Community Forum Support our Gitcoin Grant

In this week’s episode, Anna chats with Sam Blackshear, co-founder and CTO at Mysten Labs. Sam has a background in programming language research and is one of the authors of the Move language, a language that can be used to implement custom transactions and smart contracts. They chat about Mysten’s concept of programmable objects and what properties are necessary to make this functional for a blockchain context. They also cover Sui, a smart contracts platform which is a generalized L1 with a new asset centric data model for parallel transaction commits being developed by Mysten, what's next in the roadmap and some of the collaborations to come. Here are some links for this episode: Mysten Labs Website Twitter @mysten_labs Sam on Twitter @b1ackd0g Move Language Move Whitepaper Sui Whitepaper Github @MystenLabs twitter @dahlia_malkhi Skylark: Go configuration language Sui docs page Sui GitHub Sui Discord Move GitHub Move community page Move Discord If you are looking to jump into ZK professionally, check out the ZK Jobs Board to find openings from some of the top teams working in ZK - like Aleo, Anoma and Mina. If you’re looking to hire, be sure to add your jobs as well! More at ZK Jobs Board. Today’s episode is sponsored by Polygon Miden. Polygon Miden is layer 2 scaling solution for Ethereum. Miden relies on zk-STARKs to roll-up thousands of layer 2 transactions into a single Ethereum transaction, increasing throughput and reducing fees. At the heart of Polygon Miden is Miden VM, a Turing-complete STARK-based virtual machine which provides a level of safety and support of advanced features currently not available on Ethereum. Visit polygon.technology to learn more about Polygon Miden and other Polygon solutions. If you like what we do: Subscribe to our podcast newsletter Follow us on Twitter @zeroknowledgefm Join us on Telegram Catch us on Youtube Head to the ZK Community Forum Support our Gitcoin Grant