Zero Knowledge

In this week's episode, we sit down with Sam Williams of Arweave to chat about their novel approach to decentralised storage. We discuss incentivising data storage, the concept of the permaweb, and how to properly decentralise the internet archives. If you like what we do: Follow us on Twitter - @zeroknowledgefm Join us on Telegram - https://t.me/joinchat/B_81tQ57-ThZg8yOSx5gjA Support our Gitcoin...

In this week's special episode, Anna pops over to EthCC - the Ethereum Community Conference - to find out what's on people's minds. Speaking with Boris Mann , Maria Paula Fernandez , Hudson Jameson , Sunny Aggarwal , Yalda Mousavinia , and Peter Mauric , these conversations centre around decision making in the decentralised space, the role of transparency, the different organisations and groups th...

In this week's episode, we sit down with Martin Lundfall from Dapphub & MakerDAO to discuss formal verification - a topic request that comes directly from the Zero Knowledge audience. We cover what formal verification is, where it makes sense, where it doesn't, the k-framework, how different this approach is to the "move fast and break things" approach, and much more. Here are some of articles...

In this week's episode, Anna and Fredrik chat with Danny Ryan from the Ethereum Foundation about the ETH2.0 project. We cover how ETH2.0 came to be, how it works, the new roadmap, and where the project is headed. Useful resources: Our last episode on ETH2.0 with Prysmatic Labs ETH2.0 Specs Ethresearch Forum Barry Whitehat's Rollup Project Cosmos' Game of Stakes Our event, the Zero Knowledge Summit...

In this week’s episode, we sit down with Igor Barinov from POA Network and Austin Griffith from Gitcoin Labs to discuss bridges, xDai - the new side-chain where DAI is the native token - and Austin's super simple Burner Wallet. Bridges are a wide topic and with this conversation we try to give some insight into what they are and how they work. We look at xDai as one concrete example of such a brid...

In this week’s episode, Anna sits down with Jenna Zenk , the CTO of Melonport , to discuss her background, the path to the melon protocol, the challenges of building sophisticated smart contracts and what it means to release a decentralised protocol into the wild. This was recorded soon after the M1 conference in Zug. A few resources to check out: Melonomics Blog posts The Melon Governance explain...

In this episode, we sit down with Bogdan Opanchuk and John "Tux" Pacific from NuCypher to chat about their threshold proxy-encryption technology, how the project aims to provide privacy infrastructure, dig into their nuFHE scheme and explore far along FHE research, the cryptographic "holy grail", really is. Here are some papers we mention in the podcast: Matt Green’s blog post “Wonk post: Circular...

In this episode, we discuss tokens, token standards and the sometimes confusing ERC process. We cover some of the most popular token standards and discuss what it takes to design a standard and get this accepted by the community. We also have a chat with Matt Lockyer about his experience submitting ERC998 To see the full list of ERCs in draft and final state, check out https://eips.ethereum.org/er...

In this episode, we chat with Tarun Chitra about a broad range on topics, from his work on early non-blockchain ASICs, to making models in high frequency trading, and the nuances of statistical modeling of PoS systems in blockchain. Tarun's new company Gauntlet is building a simulation platform for crypto networks to help developers understand how decisions about security, governance and consensus...

In this week's episode, Anna and Fredrik give a general introduction to MPCs, go over a few examples of MPCs in action, compare them with other cryptographic concepts, try to pronounce "fully homomorphic encryption" properly, and more! Here are some of the material that we reference: Andrew Yao's paper on Protocols for Secure Computations "How to play ANY mental game" publication - MPCs first intr...

In this week's episode, we catch up with Eli Ben-Sasson and Alessandro Chiesa from StarkWare Industries . We talk about their longstanding academic work in theoretic & applied cryptography, how StarkWare came to be, the emergence of zkSNARKs and zkSTARKs, some of the differences between these different zero knowledge systems, dive into the specific features of STARKs (!) and what's coming next...

In this week's episode, we sit down with Jutta Steiner , our friend and Fredrik's CEO at Parity Technologies , to talk about her history in the space, the origin of Parity, the last year in blockchain, and what we see coming in 2019! Here is the cryptography conference Fredrik mentioned: https://cyber.stanford.edu/sbc19 If you like what we do: Follow us on Twitter - @zeroknowledgefm Join us on Tel...

If you like what we do: Follow us on Twitter - @zeroknowledgefm Join us on Telegram - https://t.me/joinchat/B_81tQ57-ThZg8yOSx5gjA Support us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/zeroknowledge Or directly here: ETH: 0xC0FFEE1B5083230a5154F55f253B6b6ae8F29B1a BTC: 1cafekGa3podM4fBxPSQc6RCEXQNTK8Zz In this week's episode, Anna and Fredrik dig into the topic of Merkle trees. We discuss the history of...

In this episode, Fredrik sits down Martin, who is a Core Dev working on the Geth client and head of security for the Ethereum foundation. They chat about what got him into the space, his interest in security, his entry into blockchain development and, together, they offer some advice for devs wanting to get into this space. Special thanks to POA Network for being our sponsor on this episode. To fi...

In this week's episode, Anna interviews a number of participants at the ETHSingapore hackathon as part of the ETHGlobal series and tries to get a sense for how these hackers are approaching the space. In this showcase (which was recorded on the Saturday, right in the middle of the hackathon), we asked: What got you into this space? What's your take on singapore? What are you building? and What do...

In this week's episode, we sit down with Izaak Meckler & Evan Shapiro from O(1) Labs to discuss Coda, a blockchain using recursive composition of zkSNARKs to eliminate history. We discuss recursive zkSNARKs generally, what a recursive zkSNARK construction blockchain would look like, and the challenges in implementing this sophisticated scaling solution. To find out more about the project and s...

In this episode Fredrik sits down with Péter Szilágyi , lead developer of go-ethereum to talk about his background, what it means to be a Core Dev and some of the struggles of maintaining an open source project. Special thanks to the sponsor of this episode Trail of Bits . If you're interested in hardware wallet security, check out their article 10 Rules for the Secure Use of Cryptocurrency Hardwa...

In this week's episode, we are joined by a couple greats in the space, Gavin Wood and Vlad Zamfir , to debate the merits of on-chain vs off-chain governance. If you want more, catch their governance panel at Web3Summit (which happened right before our interview). Thanks to our sponsor Trail of Bits - find out more about their upcoming event on their blog: https://blog.trailofbits.com/ And support...

In this episode, we sit down with Julian Loss, a researcher at Spacemesh, to explore DAGs, the Proof-of-Spacetime idea and the Spacemesh project. Links: Spacemesh on twitter SoK: A Consensus Taxonomy in the Blockchain Era Thanks to our Sponsor POA Network! Check out their blog to find out more about their new blockchain consensus protocol, HoneyBadger BFT

In this special 50th episode, we invite our friend Zooko to the podcast to chat about his background and explore the history of Zerocoin and Zcash. We dig into the inner workings of Zcash, the trusted setup, the sapling upgrade, and what the future of the project might look like! The Sapling upgrade promises to reduce the proving times of the zk-SNARKs from 37 seconds to 2.3 seconds by replacing t...

In this Blockchain 101 episode, we sit down with Axel Ericsson of Vest (previously 1Protocol) to talk about Cryptoeconomic Primitives, incentive models, designing smart equilibria, and staking. Links: Game Theory Game Vest on Twitter Axel on Twitter Vest Website

In this episode, we sit down with Taylor Monahan of MyCrypto, to discuss how the project got started and share some customer support horror stories. We also reflect on the challenge of building UX that works for people while maintaining the spirit of decentralization, and finally, where she sees the space developing. Links: Taylor on Twitter MyCrypto Solidity Honeypots You can also find the Slithe...

In this episode, we sit down with Richard Craib from Numerai to talk about crowdsourcing the role of a quant, how Numerai developed and where it is going, Dapp adoption in Ethereum and what it's like to build a hedge fund fulled by a crypto token. He also shares the new project Erasure - a decentralized data marketplace for financial predictions. Follow Richard on Twitter Learn more about Numerai

We finally sit down with Gavin to go through a bit of what Parity has been working on with Polkadot and Substrate. We talk about Polkadot early history and who was involved and where the idea spawned, up to coding practices and where Substrate became a thing. If you want to know more, links below. Meta-link of Polkadot Resources Substrate In A Nutshell Vitalik Tweet-storm about Sharding History

In this week's episode, we sit down with Henri Pihkala from Streamr to talk p2p messaging and what it means. We cover topics like pubsub, compare it to whisper, talk about the needs of different messaging systems as well as dig into why one would want to decentralize something like this. Finally we take a look at the data marketplace idea that streamr is trying out and what potential use-cases tha...