In this end of year episode, we chat about what we've learned in 2019, some of our favourite episodes, this year's explosion in ZK research and what we are looking forward to in 2020! Thanks to Henrik José for updated jingle! We mention a number of episodes from this past year, have a look through our episodes here: https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/ For the Zk Specific episodes have a look here: https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/zkseries Give the Zero Knowledge Podcast some feedback. Whether you are a long-time listener or new to the show, we would love to hear from you! Please share your feedback with us here: https://forms.gle/LtQQyKJV6r7LrSND7 If you like what we do: Follow us on Twitter - @zeroknowledgefm Join us on Telegram Catch up with us on Youtube Support our Gitcoin Grant Support us on the ZKP Patreon Or directly here: ETH: 0xC0FFEE1B5083230a5154F55f253B6b6ae8F29B1a BTC: 1cafekGa3podM4fBxPSQc6RCEXQNTK8Zz ZEC: t1R2bujRF3Hzte9ALHpMJvY8t5kb9ut9SpQ

Daniel Benarroch and Aviv Zohar from QEDIT discuss the power of zero knowledge proof systems and emerging use cases. They also touch on The Zero Knowledge Standardization Effort and the importance of creating infrastructure for using zero knowledge proofs.

This week we catch up with Zaki Manian, Director at Tendermint, the company building Cosmos architecture, and co-founder of Iqlusion Validator. We chat about the blockchain in Silicon Valley, why SF loves DeFi, the challenge of balancing pragmatism and regulation with a decentralised ideology, the nuances of PoS systems, the wins of 2019 and what is on the horizon. Here are links to a few things we discuss: -Tarun Chitra's paper on how the existance of derivatives can undermine the security of a PoS system -Blog post summarizing Tarun's paper here -ZKValidator Give the Zero Knowledge Podcast some feedback. Whether you are a long-time listener or new to the show, we would love to hear from you! Please share your feedback with us here: https://forms.gle/LtQQyKJV6r7LrSND7 If you like what we do: Follow us on Twitter - @zeroknowledgefm Join us on Telegram Catch up with us on Youtube Support our Gitcoin Grant Support us on the ZKP Patreon Or directly here: ETH: 0xC0FFEE1B5083230a5154F55f253B6b6ae8F29B1a BTC: 1cafekGa3podM4fBxPSQc6RCEXQNTK8Zz ZEC: t1R2bujRF3Hzte9ALHpMJvY8t5kb9ut9SpQ

Lucas Vogelsang, co-founder of Centrifuge, discusses his journey to co-founding the company and the role of privacy in his thinking. They also explore building with zkSNARKs, improving access to finance through blockchain and decentralization, the future of borrowing and lending in blockchain, challenges of scalability on Ethereum, the importance of privacy for businesses on blockchain, and developing in the rapidly changing zero knowledge space.

In this week's episode, we chat with Juan Benet, founder of Protocol Labs, about IPFS, Libp2p, and the much anticipated incentivised decentralised storage protocol Filecoin. We dig into the history of the Filecoin project, the gap in the “market” they are trying to fill, the challenges they have found in the development of the Filecoin protocol and the latest tech they are exploring. Here are some helpful links: https://ipfs.io/ https://libp2p.io/ https://filecoin.io/ https://protocol.ai/ https://protocol.ai/projects/#IPFS Decentralised storage pt 1 Orient Decentralised storage pt 2 Arweave Decentralised Storage episode You can see some of the constraints and parameters for filecoin here: https://filecoin-project.github.io/specs/docs/diagrams/orient/filecoin.dot.svg https://filecoin-project.github.io/specs/#appendixorient https://github.com/filecoin-project/specs/tree/master/src/orient Give the Zero Knowledge Podcast some feedback. Whether you are a long-time listener or new to the show, we would love to hear from you! Please share your feedback with us here: https://forms.gle/LtQQyKJV6r7LrSND7 If you like what we do: Follow us on Twitter - @zeroknowledgefm Join us on Telegram Catch up with us on Youtube Support our Gitcoin Grant Support us on the ZKP Patreon Or directly here: ETH: 0xC0FFEE1B5083230a5154F55f253B6b6ae8F29B1a BTC: 1cafekGa3podM4fBxPSQc6RCEXQNTK8Zz ZEC: t1R2bujRF3Hzte9ALHpMJvY8t5kb9ut9SpQ

Alan Szepieniec, researcher at Nervos, discusses the Supersonics paper, new hash functions, and the Marvelous universe. They explore trap doors in public keys, transparent snarks, dark compilers, and the historical evolution of ciphers. They also delve into grobner basis attacks and the world of cryptography research.

In this week’s episode, Anna chats with Fredrik and Nicole Zhu, Developer at Parity Technologies, about the experimental Polkadot Canary Network they call Kusama. We cover how Kusama was developed, the goals of this format and what launching a Chaos Canary Network is all about. Here is a few more links: https://twitter.com/kusamanetwork https://kusama.network/ Zero Knowledge Podcast is also looking for some feedback! Whether you are a long-time listener of the Zero Knowledge Podcast, or new to the show, we would love to hear from you! Please share your feedback with us here: https://forms.gle/LtQQyKJV6r7LrSND7 If you like what we do: Follow us on Twitter - @zeroknowledgefm Join us on Telegram Catch up with us on Youtube Support our Gitcoin Grant Support us on the ZKP Patreon Or directly here: ETH: 0xC0FFEE1B5083230a5154F55f253B6b6ae8F29B1a BTC: 1cafekGa3podM4fBxPSQc6RCEXQNTK8Zz ZEC: t1R2bujRF3Hzte9ALHpMJvY8t5kb9ut9SpQ

In this week’s episode, we sit down with Joseph Bonneau, Assistant Professor at NYU and co-author on the Verifiable Delay Functions (VDFs) paper. We discuss VDFs, what they are, how they were developed and what they can be used for. Here are a few links that we reference: Blockchain 101: Randomness episode with Justin Drake Verifiable Delay Functions by Dan Boneh, Joseph Bonneau, Benedikt Bünz, and Ben Fisch vdfresearch.org Numbers Game A Programmer Solved a 20-Year-Old, Forgotten Crypto Puzzle Bitcoin Book Thank you to this week's sponsor Trail of Bits Trail of bit recently released a blog post that might be interesting for our listeners who are concerned about privacy. The post is about the concept of 'Safe browsing'. Safe browsing claims to protect users by providing them with something called k-anonymity. Recent security news suggests that the k-anonymity has failed at protecting user privacy in certain circumstances. This is the topic that Trail of Bits explores in the blog post. Find out more about how k-anonymity works and why it is insufficient here: https://blog.trailofbits.com/2019/10/30/how-safe-browsing-fails-to-protect-user-privacy/ If you like what we do: Follow us on Twitter - @zeroknowledgefm Join us on Telegram Support our Gitcoin Grant Support us on the ZKPatreon Or directly here: ETH: 0xC0FFEE1B5083230a5154F55f253B6b6ae8F29B1a BTC: 1cafekGa3podM4fBxPSQc6RCEXQNTK8Zz ZEC: t1R2bujRF3Hzte9ALHpMJvY8t5kb9ut9SpQ

In this week’s episode, we chat with Brandon Ramirez, Research Lead and co-founder of The Graph, about the problem the project is trying to solve, the fast evolving Layer1-Layer2 paradigm, the emerging group of Service Protocols, and how these projects interact with other elements of the Web3 stack. Introduction of GraphQL The Graph protocol design Talk on trust-minimized services More on Service Protocols from Arjun (NuCypher) More on Service Protocols from Yondon (LivePeer) Give us feedback!! Whether you are a long-time listener of the Zero Knowledge Podcast, or new to the show, we would love to hear from you! Please share your feedback with us here: https://forms.gle/LtQQyKJV6r7LrSND7 If you like what we do: Follow us on Twitter - @zeroknowledgefm Join us on Telegram Catch up with us on Youtube Support our Gitcoin Grant Support us on the ZKP Patreon Or directly here: ETH: 0xC0FFEE1B5083230a5154F55f253B6b6ae8F29B1a BTC: 1cafekGa3podM4fBxPSQc6RCEXQNTK8Zz ZEC: t1R2bujRF3Hzte9ALHpMJvY8t5kb9ut9SpQ

In this week’s episode, we chat with Yan Michalevsky, CTO & Co-founder, Anjuna Security about their work with TEEs, a continuation of topic we covered in episode 82 of this podcast. In this episode, we go deeper and cover Intel SGX vs AMD memory, the risk profiles, tooling for TEEs, how zk techniques can be used alongside TEEs, applications of enclaves and how these techniques are being optimized for. Here are some of the ideas we covered: A Comparison Study of Intel SGX and AMD Memory Encryption Technology". CoSMIX: A Compiler-based System for Secure Memory Instrumentation and Execution in Enclaves Talk on CoSMIX Thank you to this week's sponsor O(1)Labs. O(1)Labs is the company behind the Coda Protocol, the world’s first succinct blockchain, using recursive zero knowledge proofs to make cryptocurrency decentralized at scale. If you aren’t yet clear on recursive zkps, have a listen to an episode we did on the topic of recursive snarks with the co-founders of o1labs last year - https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/54 The Coda Testnet is live in Beta and has been consistently one of the most active testnets in crypto today. You can join their community of engineers, cryptographers, researchers and builders by visiting codaprotocol.com. Sign up for their newsletter to receive updates on Testnet progress, Mainnet launch and their forthcoming developer sdk. If you like what we do: Follow us on Twitter - @zeroknowledgefm Join us on Telegram Support our Gitcoin Grant Support us on the ZKPatreon Or directly here: ETH: 0xC0FFEE1B5083230a5154F55f253B6b6ae8F29B1a BTC: 1cafekGa3podM4fBxPSQc6RCEXQNTK8Zz ZEC: t1R2bujRF3Hzte9ALHpMJvY8t5kb9ut9SpQ