Zero Knowledge

In this week's episode, we share our interviews from ETHBuenosAires, the 3rd instalment of the ETHGlobal Hackathon series. Through these conversations with the participants, sponsors and organizers, we found out more about the Buenos Aires Blockchain scene, captured the spirit of the ETHGlobal series and learned about some amazing new ideas and hackathon projects This was recorded during the event, but you can watch the winners presenting HERE More links:EthBuenosAires Website & Twitter Kimono Crypto Against Humanity DenodeToken Toilet Other projects that were mentioned:http://www.thegraph.com/ All Submissions can be seen hereFollow the peeps we interviewed on twitter:https://twitter.com/cryptowanderer https://twitter.com/ethstatus https://twitter.com/licuende https://twitter.com/AragonProject https://twitter.com/MakerDAO https://twitter.com/komodoman https://twitter.com/liamihorne https://twitter.com/nanexcool https://twitter.com/gomox_ar https://twitter.com/crypt0glitter https://twitter.com/pfletcherhill https://twitter.com/eordano

Coming to you from Buenos Aires, we sit down with Demi and Facu from Zeppelin Solutions to talk developer experience, upgradability and how they aim to make running software on blockchains simple, fast and error free. We discuss their products - OpenZeppelin, a framework of reusable smart contracts, and ZeppelinOS, an operating system designed specifically for smart contracts - and how these projects have emerged from their work as auditors on some of the most important projects in the space. They introduce their proposal for upgradability, a method for making some alterations to existing smart contracts without impeding immutability. Here are a few links to find out more: https://zeppelin.solutions/https://openzeppelin.org/https://zeppelinos.org/https://ethernaut.zeppelin.solutions/

In this episode, we sit down with Lane Rettig and Alex Beregszaszi from the eWasm team at the Ethereum Foundation to talk about WebAssembly (Wasm).We explore why Wasm was chosen as the instruction set of the future for Ethereum, what it means to switch instructions sets and why you would want to go with one over another. We also dig into Wasm specifics and tooling.If you want to learn more about Wasm, check out some of the links below: Official Wasm website eWasm design repo where there are documents discussing the different VMs as well as goals, motivations and design specs of eWasm. K Framework description

In this episode, we catch up with Phil Daian once again to dig deeper into the idea of cryptocommodities and storage rent. Cryptocommodities are defined as the resources used for blockchain transactions - for example blockchain memory or computation (such as Ethereum's gas) - and storage rent is the idea of issuing a payment for use of these resources per unit of time instead of as a one-time fee.We discuss how the storage rent idea is becoming increasingly relevant as blockchain technology becomes more widely adopted, and the challenges in implementing this into existing systems. Phil is a researcher with IC3 and PhD student at Cornell Tech as well as the creator of GasToken and member of Project Chicago. Some links:Phil's siteIC3Cornell TechProject chicagoGas Token

In this special episode, we share a number of short interviews we did with the participants of the Web3 UX Unconference which followed Edcon last week in Toronto. Featuring Dan Finlay from Metamask, Alex van de Sande from the Ethereum Foundation, Ric Burton from Balance, Philippe Castonguay, Jonny Howle from Uport, Dan Tsui and Bryant Eisenbach, we explore the topic of UX in the blockchain space. Thanks to guest co-host Maciej Hirsz! Find & follow the guests on Twitter: www.twitter.com/danfinlay www.twitter.com/metamask www.twitter.com/avsa www.twitter.com/ethereum www.twitter.com/ricburton www.twitter.com/Balance_io www.twitter.com/PhABCD www.twitter.com/JonnyAustinTX www.twitter.com/uport www.twitter.com/fubuloubuThanks to @derek_sys & @sdtsui for organising!

In this episode, we share an introduction to full nodes. Speaking with the Parity community support lead, Thibaut Sardan, we walk through what it means to set up the Parity Ethereum client, explore what the difference is between this and a light client, help define some of the commonly used language and answer some frequently asked questions. Big thank you to 1kx for inviting us to the Full Node co-working space to record this episode! Links:Parity FAQParity UI and Light Wallets

In this weeks episode, Fredrik and Anna speak with Elias Haase and Rob Hitchens from B9Lab about how a curriculum can be developed to introduce developers to the concepts and languages in the blockchain space. We discuss some of their process, the unique qualities of teaching in this space and how important it is that the people building core infrastructure consider the impact of their decisions on society in the future.Links:B9Lab on TwitterB9LabBe sure to follow us on twitter @zeroknowedgefm

In this episode, we kick off the Zero Knowledge Proof series with our very own 'Intro to Zero Knowledge' in which we go through a couple examples that describe the underlying concept of this important field of research.Basically, the Zero Knowledge hosts are talking about Zero Knowledge Proofs on the Zero Knowledge Podcast. It promises to get meta. Links:Where's Waldo exampleStr4d presenting the Billiard Balls example at ZK0x01Sudoku ZKP exampleEli Ben Sasson presenting STARKs Read transcript

In this episode, Fredrik sits down with Jon Choi from the Ethereum Foundation to discuss the latest scalability grants and what the plans are for the Ethereum Foundation grants in general.We also delve into what a business model for core infrastructure could mean and how to avoid the tragedy of the commons where no one is willing to invest in vital infrastructure because of the lack of immediate incentive.Finally, we discuss the general ecosystem, how we can learn from each other, how and what to build and what's needed before Ethereum can really become a platform suitable for mass adoption.

We welcome Jack back to the show to discuss what's been going on in our world for the past month. We share a little review of our recent event - the Zero Knowledge Summit - and an update from the Taiwan Sharding Workshop. We also discuss the role of testnets and explore the purpose and practice of ASIC resistance.Links to things talked about in the episode:Fredriks talk about Rust smart contracts & wasmEthereum Sharding Research CompendiumZero Knowledge Youtube channelZero Knowledge Twitter account (stay up to date folks)ASIC resistance EIPPhil Daian's (previous guest) blog post response to hard forking for ASIC resistance