Podcasts by Zero Knowledge
Zero Knowledge is a podcast which goes deep into the tech that will power the emerging decentralised web and the community building this. Covering the latest in zero knowledge research and applications, the open web as well as future technologies and paradigms that promise to change the way we interact — and transact — with one another online.
Zero Knowledge is hosted by Anna Rose
Further podcasts by Fredrik Harrysson, Anna Rose
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Episode 227: Move&Sui with Sam Blackshear from Mysten Labs from 2022-04-27T15:30
In this week’s episode, Anna (https://twitter.com/annarrose) chats with Sam Blackshear (https://twitter.com/b1ackd0g), co-founder and CTO at Mysten Labs. Sam has a background in programming languag...
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Episode 226: Interoperability with Sergey Gorbunov from Axelar from 2022-04-20T15:00
This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/annarrose) catches up with Sergey Gorbunov (https://twitter.com/sergey_nog) from Axelar (https://twitter.com/axelarcore) and revisits the topic of bridges. They...
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Episode 225: Dark Forest and 0xPARC with Gubsheep from 2022-04-13T15:00
This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/annarrose) catches up with Gubsheep (https://twitter.com/gubsheep) from 0xPARC. They chat about Dark Forest – a decentralized zk-based RTS game, built on Ethere...
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Bonus: Jump into ZK from 2022-04-07T19:00
No full episode this week! ZKV presents Privacy in Cosmos - April 15 - is here: https://www.events.zkvalidator.com/Zk Summit - April 21 - is here: https://www.zksummit.com/ _Note: Both are sold ou...
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Episode 224: Foundry with Georgios Konstantopoulous from 2022-03-30T15:00
This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose)&Tarun (https://twitter.com/tarunchitra) catch up with Georgios Konstantopoulos (https://twitter.com/gakonst) from Paradigm (https://twitter.com/parad...
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Episode 223: Connecting Cosmos and Ethereum with Gravity Bridge from 2022-03-23T15:00
This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) chats with Deborah Simpier (https://twitter.com/DeborahSimpier) and Justin Kilpatrick (https://twitter.com/ttk314), co-founders of Althea and the tea...
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Episode 222: Something Brewing with Jill Gunter and Ben Fisch from Espresso Systems from 2022-03-16T15:00
This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) and Tarun (https://twitter.com/tarunchitra) chat with Jill Gunter (https://twitter.com/jillrgunter) and Ben Fisch (https://twitter.com/benafisch) fro...
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Episode 221: Funding the Next Wave of Zero Knowledge Tech from 2022-03-09T15:00
This week Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) dives into the topic of funding in the ZK space. She chats with a number of different groups who are all funding zero knowledge technology from differ...
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Episode 220: The Road to Plonky2 with Brendan and Daniel from Polygon Zero from 2022-03-02T15:00
This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) chats with Brendan Farmer (https://twitter.com/_bfarmer) and Daniel Lubarov (https://twitter.com/dlubarov) from Polygon Zero, formerly known as Mir, ...
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Episode 219: Scaling Ethereum with Polygon's Mihailo Bjelic from 2022-02-23T15:00
This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) chats with Mihailo Bjelic (https://twitter.com/MihailoBjelic) one of the co-founders of Polygon. Mihailo takes us through the evolution of Polygon an...
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Episode 218: Hardened JS and the Architecture of Agoric with Dean Tribble from 2022-02-16T15:00
This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) chats with Dean Tribble (https://twitter.com/DeanTribble), co-founder and CEO of Agoric. Dean walks us through the landscape of programming languages...
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Episode 217: Information Theory&Blockchain with Sreeram Kannan from 2022-02-09T15:00
This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) and Tarun Chitra (https://twitter.com/tarunchitra) chat with Sreeram Kannan (https://twitter.com/sreeramkannan), Associate Professor at University of...
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Episode 216: A Dip into the Mempool&MEV with Project Blanc from 2022-02-02T15:00
This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) chats with Dean Eigenmann (https://twitter.com/DeanEigenmann) and Edgar Aroutiounian (https://twitter.com/edgararout) from Project Blanc (https://pro...
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Episode 215: Charting Zodiac&DAOs with Nathan Ginnever and Auryn Macmillan from 2022-01-26T15:00
This week Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) chats with Nathan Ginnever (https://twitter.com/NathanGinnever), an applied cryptographer and contributor to Zodiac, and Auryn Macmillan (https://twit...
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Episode 214: Emin Gün Sirer on Avalanche and its Formation from 2022-01-19T15:00
This week Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) chats with Emin Gün Sirer (https://twitter.com/el33th4xor) - CEO Ava Labs and Founder of Avalanche. They chat about the experiences that led him to be...
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Episode 213: zk-SNARKs meets Optimistic Rollup with Zkopru from 2022-01-12T15:00
This week Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) chats with Wanseob Lim (https://twitter.com/wanseoblim) an Applied ZKP Developer in the Privacy&Scaling Exploration Team at the Ethereum Foundation an...
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Episode 212: 2021<2022 with Co-hosts&Friends from 2022-01-05T15:00
This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) checks in with co-hosts&friends, Tarun Chitra (https://twitter.com/tarunchitra), James Prestwich (https://twitter.com/_prestwich), Josh Cincinnati (h...
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Bonus ZK Hack Wrap with Kobi! from 2021-12-31T20:00
While we decided not to release a full episode this week, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) did get a chance to catch up with Kobi Gurkan (https://twitter.com/kobigurk), one of the co-organizers...
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Episode 211: It's a wrap! ZK Hack Takeaways&What's Next! from 2021-12-22T15:00
This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) hosts a special 5-part interview with a roundup of perspectives from ZK Hack. First, she chats with puzzle hackers who share what it was like to solv...
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Episode 210: The Road to STARKs and Miden with Bobbin Threadbare from 2021-12-15T15:00
This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) chats with Bobbin Threadbare (https://twitter.com/bobbinth) about his project Miden, a STARK-based roll-up which was recently purchased by Polygon. W...
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Episode 209: Liquid Staking with Lido and Chorus One from 2021-12-08T15:00
This week Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) and Tarun (https://twitter.com/tarunchitra) chat with Vasiliy Shapovalov (https://twitter.com/_vshapovalov) from Lido ([Lido](https://lido.fi/)) and F...
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Episode 208: Digging into Data Availability with Ismail Khoffi from Celestia from 2021-12-01T15:00
This week Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) chats with Ismail Khoffi (https://twitter.com/KreuzUQuer) from Celestia about how and why they’re focusing on building a data availability-first L1 bl...
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Episode 207: Journey Through the Cosmos Ecosystem with Billy Rennekamp from 2021-11-24T15:00
This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) chats with Billy Rennekamp (https://twitter.com/billyrennekamp) about the Cosmos Hub ecosystem, ICF and some of the latest innovations he is watching...
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Episode 206: Distilling DeFi Primitives with Guillermo, Alex and Tarun from 2021-11-17T15:00
This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) catches up with Guillermo Angeris (https://twitter.com/GuilleAngeris), Alex Evans (https://twitter.com/alexhevans) and Tarun (https://twitter.com/tar...
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Episode 205: Curating JPEGs with JPG from 2021-11-10T15:00
This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) and Tarun (https://twitter.com/tarunchitra) chat with MP (https://twitter.com/mptherealmvp), Trent (https://twitter.com/_trente_) and Sam (https://tw...
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Episode 204: Keeping Up with the Kusama Network from 2021-11-03T15:00
This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/annarrose) catches up on what has been happening in the Kusama network ecosystem with Will Pankiewicz, Raul Romanutti (https://twitter.com/nachortti), and Bruno...
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Episode 203: MPC and DAGs with Aleph Zero's Adam Gagol&Matthew Niemerg from 2021-10-27T15:00
This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/annarrose) speaks with Adam Gągol (https://twitter.com/GagolAdam) and Matthew Niemerg (https://twitter.com/matthewniemerg) about Aleph Zero - an L1 project mix...
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Episode 202: Stateless Ethereum&Verkle Tries with Dankrad Feist from 2021-10-20T15:00
This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/annarrose) speaks with Dankrad Feist (https://twitter.com/dankrad), a researcher at the Ethereum Foundation. They talk about the future of the ETH client infras...
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Episode 201: DeFi's Multichain Future with Zaki Manian from Sommelier from 2021-10-13T15:00
This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) catches up with Zaki Manian (https://twitter.com/zmanian) and his new project Sommelier (https://sommelier.finance/). They explore how Sommelier aims...
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Episode 200: SNARK Research&Pedagogy with Alessandro Chiesa from 2021-10-06T15:00
200th Episode of Zero Knowledge Podcast! This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) chats with Alessandro Chiesa (https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~alexch/), a professor working on cryptograph...
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Episode 199: Snapps on Mina with Emre and Izaak from 2021-09-29T15:00
In this week’s episode, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) chats with Emre Tekişalp (https://twitter.com/etekis) and Izaak Meckler (twitter.com/izmeckler) about what’s new with Mina, O(1) Labs, t...
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Episode 198: NFT Creation, Curation and Governance with Luiz from FingerprintsDAO from 2021-09-22T15:00
In this week’s episode, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) and Tarun (https://twitter.com/tarunchitra) dive back into the NFT space with their guest Luiz (https://twitter.com/dgntec) from Fingerp...
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Episode 197: WalletConnect&the DApp/Wallet connection with Pedro Gomes from 2021-09-15T15:00
This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) chats with Pedro Gomes (https://twitter.com/pedrouid), Founder of WalletConnect, about how wallets and DApps traditionally interact and the journey t...
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Episode 196: Mixnets, Activism and Privacy with Nym’s Harry Halpin from 2021-09-08T15:00
This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) chats with Harry Halpin (https://twitter.com/harryhalpin), the CEO of the Nym project, about a variety of topics related to privacy, politics and the...
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Episode 195: Sushi Beyond the Fork with Joseph Delong from 2021-09-01T15:00
This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) and James (https://twitter.com/_prestwich) chat with Joseph Delong (https://twitter.com/josephdelong), CTO of Sushi, who talks about everything that’...
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Episode 194: zkEVM with Jordi&David from Hermez from 2021-08-25T15:00
This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) chats with Jordi Baylina (https://twitter.com/jbaylina) and David Schwartz (https://twitter.com/davidsrz) from Hermez about their zkEVM design that w...
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Zero Knowledge Podcast (finally) has a real website! from 2021-08-18T15:00
No full episode this week, but we just wanted to let you know about the brand new zeroknowledge.fm (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/) website! Finally, we have a site that brings together all the diff...
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Episode 193: The Early Days of Cosmos, Chorus One&Epicenter with Brian Crain from 2021-08-11T15:00
This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) chats with Brian Fabian Crain (https://twitter.com/crainbf), a fellow podcaster from Epicenter (https://epicenter.tv), founder of Chorus One (https:/...
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Episode 192: The Evolution of Yearn with Tracheopteryx and Facu from 2021-08-04T15:00
This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) and Tarun (https://twitter.com/tarunchitra) host Tracheopteryx (https://twitter.com/tracheopteryx) and Facu (https://twitter.com/fameal), two core de...
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Episode 191: ZKPs&the Dichotomy of Privacy vs Transparency with Josh&Jill from 2021-07-28T15:00
This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) and Josh (https://twitter.com/acityinohio) chat with Jill Gunter (https://twitter.com/jillrgunter) (nèe Carlson), a well-known investor and crypto ad...
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Episode 190: The Why&How of Privacy for DAOs from 2021-07-21T15:00
This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) chats with John Light (https://twitter.com/lightcoin) and Samuel JJ Gosling (https://twitter.com/xGozzy), two passionate privacy advocates and DAO th...
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Episode 189: Digging into Mining with Kristy-Leigh Minehan from 2021-07-14T15:00
This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) chats with Kristy-Leigh Minehan (https://twitter.com/OhGodAGirl), a crypto and mining veteran primarily known for developing the ProgPow hashing algo...
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Episode 188: Analyzing Osmosis&Preventing MEV with Sunny and Dev from 2021-07-07T15:00
This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) and Tarun (https://twitter.com/tarunchitra) chat with Sunny Aggarwal (https://twitter.com/sunnya97) and Dev Ojha (https://twitter.com/valardragon) ab...
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Episode 187: The Evolution of ETH 2.0 with Teku’s Ben Edgington from 2021-06-30T15:00
This week James (https://twitter.com/_prestwich) and Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) chat with Ben Edgington (https://twitter.com/benjaminion_xyz), Lead Product Manager for Teku, an Eth2 clien...
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Episode 186: ZKPs for Spam Protection&Decentralized Messaging with Status from 2021-06-23T15:00
This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) chats with Oskar Thoren (https://twitter.com/oskarth) and Sanaz Taheri-Boshrooyeh (https://twitter.com/sanaz2016) from Status to learn about their wo...
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Episode 185: Exploring Uniswap V3 and a Multi-L2 Future with Noah and Moody from 2021-06-16T15:00
This week Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) and Tarun (https://twitter.com/tarunchitra) host Noah Zinsmeister (https://twitter.com/NoahZinsmeister) and Moody Salem (https://twitter.com/sendmoodz...
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Episode 184: Anoma’s Adrian Brink on Validity Predicates, Ferveo DKG&More from 2021-06-09T15:00
This week Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) chats with Adrian Brink (https://twitter.com/adrian_brink), co-founder of the Anoma Network and long-time crypto builder. Adrian explains all there is...
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Episode 183: CowSwap&DAO Tech with Gnosis’s Martin Köppelmann from 2021-06-02T15:00
This week Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) and Tarun (https://twitter.com/tarunchitra) chat with Martin Köppelmann (https://twitter.com/koeppelmann), CEO of Gnosis. The company was known for ch...
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Episode 182: The dive into ZK with Iron Fish’s Elena Nadolinski from 2021-05-26T15:00
This week Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) and James (https://twitter.com/_prestwich) chat with Elena Nadolinski (https://twitter.com/leanthebean), founder of Iron Fish, about the new privacy n...
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Episode 181: Aping into DeFi and NFTs with Andy Chorlian and Tarun Chitra from 2021-05-19T15:00
This week Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) and Tarun (https://twitter.com/tarunchitra) chat with Andy Chorlian (https://twitter.com/andy8052). Andy recounts the many interesting moments throug...
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Episode 180: dYdX’s Antonio Juliano on using STARKs for scalability from 2021-05-12T15:00
This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) and James (https://twitter.com/_prestwich) chat with Antonio Juliano (https://twitter.com/AntonioMJuliano), founder of dYdX, a derivatives exchange o...
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Episode 179: Diving into Arbitrum’s Optimistic Rollup from 2021-05-05T15:00
This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) and James (https://twitter.com/_prestwich) host Ed Felten (https://twitter.com/EdFelten) and Steven Goldfeder (https://twitter.com/sgoldfed), co-foun...
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Episode 178: Exploring SNARKs for Sidechains with Alberto from Horizen from 2021-04-28T15:00
This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) chats with Alberto Garoffolo (https://twitter.com/agaroffolo) from Horizen Labs for their upcoming Zendoo protocol and Latus sidechain proposal. The...
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Episode 177: Unwrapping Optimism with Ben and Mark from 2021-04-21T15:00
This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) and James (https://twitter.com/_prestwich) chat with Ben Jones (https://twitter.com/ben_chain) and Mark Tyneway (https://twitter.com/tyneslol) from O...
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Episode 176: Zk-zk-rollup&zk.money with Zac and Joe from Aztec from 2021-04-14T15:00
In this week’s episode, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) chats with Zac Williamson (https://twitter.com/zac_aztec) and Joe Andrews (https://twitter.com/jaosef), respectively CTO and Head of Pro...
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Episode 175: zkEVM&zkPorter with Matter Labs from 2021-04-07T15:00
In today’s episode, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) chats with Alex Gluchowski (https://twitter.com/gluk64), CEO at Matter Labs and co-creator of zkSync, to catch up on Matter Labs’s latest de...
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Episode 174: Through the Cosmos Stargate Upgrade from 2021-03-31T15:00
In today’s episode, Anna and James chat with three representat...
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Episode 174: Through the Cosmos Stargate Upgrade from 2021-03-31T15:00
In today’s episode, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) and James (https://twitter.com/_prestwich) chat with three representatives of the Cosmos ecosystem — Zaki Manian, Tess Rinearson and Shahan ...
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Episode 173: Building Private AMMs with Guillermo Angeris from 2021-03-24T15:00
This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose)&Tarun (https://twitter.com/tarunchitra) take an in-depth look into AMMs with Guillermo Angeris (https://twitter.com/GuilleAngeris), a PhD student in ...
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Episode 173: Building Private AMMs with Guillermo Angeris from 2021-03-24T15:00
This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose)&Tarun (https://twitter.com/tarunchitra) take an in-depth look into AMMs with Guillermo Angeris (https://twitter.com/GuilleAngeris), a PhD student in ...
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Episode 172: ZK languages with Alex Ozdemir from 2021-03-17T15:00
In this week’s episode, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) has a one-on-one chat with Alex Ozdemir, a PhD student at Stanford researching formal methods, cryptography and distributed systems. Ale...
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Episode 171: Mapping the Polkadot Ecosystem from 2021-03-10T15:00
In this week’s episode, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) goes on a grand tour of the Polkadot ecosystem ahead of the launch of Parachains. In this multi-interview episode, she explores the Polk...
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Episode 170: Hardware for ZKPs&VDFs with Supranational from 2021-03-03T16:00
In this week’s episode, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) and Tarun (https://twitter.com/tarunchitra) talk with Simon Peffers and Kelly Olson (https://twitter.com/kellymolson) from Supranational...
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Episode 169: Arkworks SNARK libraries with Pratyush Mishra from 2021-02-24T15:00
In this week’s episode, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) and Robert Habermeier (https://twitter.com/rphmeier) chat with Pratyush Mishra (https://twitter.com/zkproofs), co-author of the Arkworks...
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Episode 168: Flashbots with Phil Daian and Stephane Gosselin from 2021-02-17T15:00
In this week’s episode, Anna (https://twitter.com/annarrose) and James Prestwich (https://twitter.com/_Prestwich) chat with Phil Daian (https://twitter.com/phildaian) and Stephane Gosselin (https:/...
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Episode 167: Where Media&Music meet NFTs&Blockchain from 2021-02-10T15:00
In this week’s episode, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose)&Tarun (https://twitter.com/tarunchitra) take a step further into the NFT/Art space and chat with 2 content creators/entrepreneurs Andre ...
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Episode 166: Coin Center’s Peter Van Valkenburgh on regulation&crypto from 2021-02-03T15:00
In this week’s episode, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose)&Josh Cincinnati (https://twitter.com/acityinohio) chat with Peter Van Valkenburgh (https://twitter.com/valkenburgh), Director of Researc...
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Episode 166: Coin Center’s Peter Van Valkenburgh on regulation&crypto from 2021-02-03T15:00
In this week’s episode, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose)&Josh Cincinnati (https://twitter.com/acityinohio) chat with Peter Van Valkenburgh (https://twitter.com/valkenburgh), Director of Researc...
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Episode 165: Aave with Stani Kulechov from 2021-01-26T15:00
This week, Anna and Tarun chat with Stani Kulechov (https://twitter.com/StaniKulechov), co-founder of Aave (https://twitter.com/AaveAave), about the origin and evolution of the project, the changin...
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Episode 164: The road to Skynet&beyond with David Vorick from 2021-01-20T19:15
This week, Anna and guest co-host James Prestwich (https://twitter.com/_prestwich) chat with David Vorick (https://twitter.com/DavidVorick) from Skynet Labs (https://siasky.net/) about the scope an...
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Episode 163: Kicking off 2021 with Anna, Tarun, James&Josh from 2021-01-13T17:00
This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) chats with guests Tarun Chitra (https://twitter.com/tarunchitra) (Gauntlet&Robot Ventures), James Prestwich (https://twitter.com/_prestwich) (cLabs) ...
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Episode 162: Year end and end of an era with Anna&Fredrik from 2020-12-30T15:00
This week, Anna and Fredrik do a look back at 2020 and chat about some of their favourite ZKPodcast episodes and themes from this past year. This is also a notable episode, as it will be Fredrik's ...
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Episode 161: Loopring with Matt&Brecht from 2020-12-23T15:00
This week, Anna chats with Matthew Finestone (https://twitter.com/finestonematt) and Brecht Devos (https://twitter.com/brechtpd) from Loopring (https://twitter.com/loopringorg) about their zkrollup...
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Episode 160: DAppNode&the ETH2 kick off with Eduardo Antuña Díez from 2020-12-16T15:00
This week, Anna chats with Eduardo Antuñia Díez (https://github.com/eduadiez) - co-founder / project lead of DAppNode (https://dappnode.io/) - about the importance of running your own node, the ro...
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Episode 159: MACI with Koh Wei Jie from 2020-12-09T15:00
This week, Anna chats with Koh Wei Jie (https://twitter.com/weijie_eth) from the Ethereum Foundation about the MACI or Minimum Anti-Collusion Infrastructure. They chat about the challenges in votin...
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Episode 158: Threshold Cryptography with Omer Shlomovits from ZenGo from 2020-12-02T15:00
In this week’s episode, we chat with Omer Shlomovits (https://www.omershlomovits.com/) from ZenGo Wallet (https://zengo.com/) about MPC, threshold cryptography and how the research around this topi...
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Episode 157: Illia Polosukhin on the development and launch of NEAR protocol from 2020-11-25T15:00
This week, Anna catches up with Illia Polosukhin (https://twitter.com/ilblackdragon), CTO and co-founder of NEAR (https://near.ai/), to talk about what's new in the network since last year. They go...
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Episode 156: Stateless Validation with Alin Tomescu from 2020-11-18T15:00
In this week’s episode, Anna and Fredrik chat with Alin Tomescu (https://twitter.com/alinush407), a post-doc researcher at VMWare Research Group (https://research.vmware.com/reserchers/alin-tomescu...
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Episode 155: Testing PoW Consensus Algorithm Security with Ren Zhang from Nervos from 2020-11-11T15:00
In this week’s episode, we revisit the topic of consensus algorithms with Ren Zhang (https://twitter.com/nirenzang), a researchers at Nervos and previously at imec-COSIC (KU Leuven). We chat about ...
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Episode 154: ZK for authentication with Nolan and Locke from NuID from 2020-11-04T15:00
In this week’s episode, Anna spoke with Nolan Smith (https://www.linkedin.com/in/notalwaysgray) and Locke Brown (https://twitter.com/lockebrown), co-founders at NuID (https://nuid.io) - a zero know...
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Episode 153: Monsters in the Mempool with Dan Robinson from Paradigm from 2020-10-28T15:00
In this week’s episode, we chat with Dan Robinson, a Research Partner at Paradigm (https://www.paradigm.xyz/). We talk about the world of crypto VC and revisit of the topic of the Ethereum mempool....
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Episode 152: Blockchain analytics with Alex Svanevik from Nansen from 2020-10-21T15:00
In this week’s episode, guest host Tarun Chitra (https://twitter.com/tarunchitra) and Anna chat with Alex Svanevik (https://twitter.com/asvanevik?lang=en), CEO&cofounder of Nansen (https://nansen.a...
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Episode 151: John Adler on Optimistic vs ZK Rollup and the data availability problem from 2020-10-14T15:30
In this episode, we chat with John Adler - co-founder of Lazy Ledger (now Celestia) and Fuel Labs. We compare Optimistic Rollups and ZK Rollups as well as discuss how Ethereum, specifically Eth1, c...
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Episode 150: NFTs&Rarible with Alex Salnikov from 2020-10-07T15:00
This week, Anna continues to dig into the topic of NFTs - That is Non-Fungible-Tokens or unique digital items - with Alex Salnikov (https://twitter.com/insider0x), co-founder&chief product officer ...
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Episode 149: CryptoKitties, Dapper Labs and Flow with Dieter Shirley from 2020-09-30T15:00
In this week's episode, we chat with Dieter Shirley (https://twitter.com/dete73), CTO Dapper Labs (https://www.dapperlabs.com/), Chief Architect of Flow Blockchain (https://www.onflow.org/), and c...
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Sushiswap Bonus Chat from 2020-09-24T21:00
This is a short bonus chat to Episode 148 "Tale of the Sushi(swap)". Tarun (https://twitter.com/sushiswap?lang=en), Hasu (https://twitter.com/hasufl) and Anna (https://twitter.com/annarrose) reconv...
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Episode 148: A Tale of Sushi(Swap) with Tarun, Hasu and Anna - Part1 from 2020-09-24T12:00
In this special podcast crossover episode, Tarun (https://twitter.com/sushiswap?lang=en), Hasu (https://twitter.com/hasufl) and Anna (https://twitter.com/annarrose) cover the emergence of governanc...
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Episode 147: Oasis Labs&Privacy with Vishwanath Raman from 2020-09-16T15:00
In this episode, we catch up with Vishwanath Raman (https://twitter.com/ramanvishwa?lang=en), Privacy Architect at Oasis Labs (https://www.oasislabs.com) where he works on privacy and confidentiali...
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Episode 146: Catch up with Anna&Fredrik from 2020-09-09T15:00
In this week’s special episode, we flip the script and invite our friend Alexandra Heller to ask ZKPodcast co-hosts Anna&Fredrik some questions from the audience.. It’s a bit of a different format,...
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Episode 145: Circom&Hermez with Jordi Baylina from 2020-09-02T15:30
In this week's episode, Anna and Fredrik catch up with Jordi Baylina (https://twitter.com/jbaylina?lang=en), co-founder of Iden3 (https://iden3.io), the creator of Circom&SnarkJS. They chat about h...
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Episode 144: Aleo with Howard Wu from 2020-08-26T15:00
In this episode, we invite Howard Wu (https://twitter.com/1howardwu) back to the show to share more about his new project Aleo (https://aleo.org/) - a privacy-focused blockchain that enables fully ...
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Episode 143: Josh Cincinnati on Zcash, governance and leaving the Zcash Foundation from 2020-08-19T15:00
In this episode we chat with Josh Cincinnati (https://twitter.com/acityinohio), the former executive director of Zcash Foundation (https://twitter.com/ZcashFoundation). We cover Josh's career befor...
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Episode 142: Hasu&Georgios on Bitcoin Security&Elastic Block Size Proposals from 2020-08-12T15:00
In this episode, Anna and guest host Georgios (https://twitter.com/gakonst) chat with Hasu (https://twitter.com/hasufl), an independent crypto researcher focused on economics and security, about el...
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Episode 141: ZK&Games: Dark Forest with Brian Gu from 2020-08-05T15:00
In this week's episode, we chat with Brian Gu (https://twitter.com/bgu33), a student at MIT and creator of the Dark Forest (https://twitter.com/darkforest_eth) game. We chat about education, blockc...
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Episode 140: Staking derivatives&DeFi with Alex Evans (and Tarun!) from 2020-07-29T15:00
** Be sure to visit our ZKPodcast subreddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/zkpodcast) and leave us some questions for the upcoming AMA!** In this week’s episode, Anna and guest-host / frequent guest Ta...
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Episode 139: Findora with Benedikt Bunz and Ben Fisch from 2020-07-22T15:00
** Check out the ZKPodcast subreddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/ZKPodcast/comments/hvr8dv/ama_with_anna_and_fredrik_post_your_questions_here/) and share some comments/questions for our upcoming AMA ...
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Episode 138: Validium with DeversiFi&Starkware from 2020-07-15T15:00
In this episode, we will be exploring StarkWare and DeversiFi’s collaboration - a Layer 2 STARK-powered exchange for Ethereum assets. Guests Tom Brand (https://twitter.com/bbrandtom), product manag...
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Episode 137: Trusted Setup Bonus: Tornado Cash from 2020-07-08T17:30
In this week's episode, Anna follows up on the trusted setup survey she did in her previous episode on the topic with this bonus interview with Roman Semanov (https://twitter.com/semenov_roman_)&Ro...
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Episode 136: Math competitions, crypto as alchemy&Gasper with Yan Zhang from 2020-07-01T15:00
This week, Anna and guest host Tarun Chitra (https://twitter.com/tarunchitra) chat with Yan X Zhang (https://yanxzhang.com/), professor at SJSU, about math competitions, math education, how crypto ...
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Episode 135: Look into Solana from 2020-06-24T15:00
This week, Anna and guest host Georgios Konstantopoulos (https://twitter.com/gakonst) chat with Anatoly Yakovenko (https://twitter.com/aeyakovenko) from Solana (https://twitter.com/solana) network....
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Episode 134: tBTC with Matt Luongo from 2020-06-17T15:00
In this episode, we chat with Matt Luongo (https://twitter.com/mhluongo), CEO of Thesis (https://twitter.com/thesis_co), founder of Keep Network (https://twitter.com/keep_project), and project lead...
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Episode 133: Trusted Setup Ceremonies Explored from 2020-06-10T15:00
In this week's episode, Anna explores the state of trusted setups with 4 of the people who have recently coordinated and run trusted setups for different SNARK systems. She interviews Koh Wei Jie (...
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Episode 132: Handshake Protocol with Mark Tyneway from 2020-06-03T15:00
In this episode, we chat with Mark Tyneway (https://github.com/Tynes) who is a contributor on the Handshake (https://handshake.org/) project - an experimental peer-to-peer root naming system. We le...
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Episode 131: Proof of Necessary Work with Akis Kattis (NYU) from 2020-05-27T15:00
In this week's episode, Anna and guest host Tarun Chitra chat with Akis Kattis, a PhD student at NYU&the co-author of Proof of Necessary Work: Succinct State Verification with Fairness Guarantees -...
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Episode 130: Exploring Tezos&their recent Sapling integration from 2020-05-20T15:30
In this week's episode, Anna interviews three people from the Tezos community: Jacob Arluck (https://twitter.com/JacobArluck) (co-founders TQ (https://twitter.com/TQTezos) ), Marc Beunardeau and Ma...
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Episode 129: IPFS 0.5 with Molly Mackinlay from Protocol Labs from 2020-05-13T15:00
In this episode, we chat with Molly Mackinlay, Project Lead for the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) at Protocol Labs. We talk about her journey to Protocol Labs, as well as take a deeper view int...
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Episode 128: DP-3T&Contact Tracing with Kenny Paterson from ETH Zurich from 2020-05-06T15:00
In this week's episode, Anna catches up with Kenny Paterson (https://appliedcrypto.ethz.ch/people/kenny-paterson.html), Professor of Computer Science and Lead of Applied Cryptography Group at ETH ...
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Episode 127: Consensus Algorithms&HotStuff with Ittai Abraham from 2020-04-29T15:00
In this week's episode, we go deep into Consensus Algorithms and HotStuff (https://developers.libra.org/docs/crates/consensus) with Ittai Abraham (https://twitter.com/ittaia) from VMware Research ...
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Episode 126: Crypto libraries, Zcash's Zebra and contact tracing with Henry de Valence from 2020-04-22T15:00
In this week's episode, we chat with Henry de Valence (https://twitter.com/hdevalence/) from the Zcash Foundation (https://www.zfnd.org/). We discuss what makes for a strong crypto library, some of...
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Episode 125: Mixnets and privacy technology with Claudia Diaz from Nym from 2020-04-15T15:00
In this episode, Anna catches up with Claudia Diaz, professor at KU Leuven (https://www.kuleuven.be/english/) and the Chief Science Officer at Nym Technology (https://nymtech.net/) to learn about m...
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Episode 124: Exploring FHE with Flavio Bergamaschi from IBM Research from 2020-04-08T15:00
In this episode, we chat with Flavio Bergamaschi from IBM research about Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE). FHE allows for computation on encrypted data. First developed in 2009 at IBM, this tech...
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Episode 123: Halo with Sean Bowe and Daira Hopwood from ECC from 2020-04-01T15:00
In this episode, we catch up with Sean Bowe (https://twitter.com/ebfull) and Daira Hopwood (https://twitter.com/feministPLT) from the Electric Coin Company (https://electriccoin.co/) to chat about ...
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Episode 122: ZKPs, Audits&Security with Benjamin Perez from Trail of Bits from 2020-03-25T15:00
In this week's episode, we chat with Benjamin Perez (https://twitter.com/blperez_) from Trail of Bits (https://blog.trailofbits.com/) about zero knowledge proof systems and security. We touch on th...
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Episode 121: Urbit with Galen Wolf-Pauly from Tlon from 2020-03-18T15:00
In this episode, we meet with Galen Wolf-Pauly (https://www.linkedin.com/in/galenwolfepauly) from the Tlon Corporation (https://tlon.io/) to discuss the project Urbit. Urbit is an encrypted peer-to...
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Episode 120: ZKPs in Ethereum with Vitalik Buterin&Justin Drake from 2020-03-11T15:00
In this episode, we catch up with Justin Drake (https://twitter.com/drakefjustin) and Vitalik Buterin (https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin) from the Ethereum Foundation (https://twitter.com/ethereum...
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Episode 119: Alistair and Jeff from Web3 on ZKPs&more from 2020-03-04T15:30
In this week’s episode, we sit down with Alistair Stewart and Jeff Burges, researchers at the Web3 Foundation (https://web3.foundation/), to dig into what they are working on, what they are thinkin...
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Episode 118: Tarun and James talk Flash Loans&more from 2020-02-26T20:00
In this week's episode, we catch up with our friends Tarun Chitra and James Prestwich at the Stanford Blockchain Conference. We chat about the Flashloan phenomenon&the recent arbitrage 'exploit'. W...
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Episode 118: Tarun and James talk Flash Loans&more from 2020-02-26T20:00
In this week's episode, we catch up with our friends Tarun Chitra and James Prestwich at the Stanford Blockchain Conference. We chat about the Flashloan phenomenon&the recent arbitrage 'exploit'. W...
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Episode 117: Isogenies with Luca De Feo from 2020-02-19T15:00
In this week’s episode, we take the podcast in a slightly different direction and dive into Isogenies - a topic at the cutting edge of cryptography. We look at how they are related to VDFs and rand...
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Episode 116: zkSync and Redshift: Matter Labs update from 2020-02-12T15:00
In this week's episode of the podcast, we catch up with Alex Glukowski (https://twitter.com/gluk64) of Matter Labs (https://twitter.com/the_matter_labs) to hear about zkSync (https://zksync.io/#ove...
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Episode 115: Cosmos, IBC and ZKPs with Chris Goes from 2020-02-05T15:00
In this week’s episode, we catch up with Christopher Goes, (https://twitter.com/cwgoes) IBC Lead at Tendermint (https://twitter.com/tendermint_team). We learn a bit more about the Cosmos Network ec...
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Episode 114: Exploring the Fractal transparent SNARK construction from 2020-01-29T15:00
This week, we explore the Fractal transparent SNARK construction with its authors Dev Ojha (https://twitter.com/valardragon) and Nick Spooner (https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~spooner/) - both stu...
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Episode 113: Latest recursive SNARKitecture with Izaak Meckler from O(1)Labs from 2020-01-22T15:00
In this week’s episode, we catch up with Izaak Meckler from 0(1) Labs to talk about launching a recursive snark based incentivised test net, a recap of recursive SNARKs, updates on the working SNAR...
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Episode 112: Dive into Plonk! from 2020-01-15T15:00
In this week’s episode, we learn more about Plonk (https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/953) with Ariel Gabizon (https://twitter.com/relgabizon) and Zac Williamson (https://twitter.com/Zac_Aztec) from Azte...
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Episode 111: Mixers with Tornado.cash from 2020-01-08T15:00
In this week’s episode, we chat with Roman Storm (https://twitter.com/rstormsf) and Roman Semanov (https://twitter.com/semenov_roman_) from Tornado.cash all about mixers. We explore what they are u...
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Episode 110: So long 2019! What's next? from 2020-01-01T16:00
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 He...
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Episode 109: Exploring use-cases for zkps and zk standards with QEDIT from 2019-12-25T15:00
In this week’s episode, Anna sits down with Daniel Benarroch (https://twitter.com/BenarrochDaniel) and Aviv Zohar (https://twitter.com/Avivz78) from QEDIT (https://qed-it.com/) - a privacy software...
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Episode 108: Catch up with Zaki Manian from Tendermint from 2019-12-18T15:00
This week we catch up with Zaki Manian, Director at Tendermint (https://tendermint.com/), the company building Cosmos (https://cosmos.network/) architecture, and co-founder of Iqlusion (https://www...
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Episode 107: Centrifuge and zkSNARKs in action with Lucas Vogelsang from 2019-12-11T15:00
In this week’s episode, we catch-up our friend Lucas Vogelsang (https://twitter.com/lucasvo) from Centrifuge (https://centrifuge.io/). Centrifuge is an open, decentralized platform to connect the g...
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Episode 106: IPFS, Libp2p&Filecoin with Juan Benet from 2019-12-04T15:00
In this week's episode, we chat with Juan Benet (https://twitter.com/juanbenet), founder of Protocol Labs (https://twitter.com/protocollabs), about IPFS (https://ipfs.io/), Libp2p (https://libp2p.i...
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Episode 105: Alan Szepieniec on Hash Functions&Supersonic SNARKs from 2019-11-27T15:00
In this week’s episode, we catchup with Alan Szepieniec, a researchers at Nervos and co-author of the Supersonics (https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/1229.pdf) paper&the Marvellous family of Hash Functio...
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Episode 104: Exploring Kusama, the Canary Chaos Network from 2019-11-20T16:00
In this week’s episode, Anna chats with Fredrik and Nicole Zhu (https://twitter.com/nczhu), Developer at Parity Technologies (https://www.parity.io/), about the experimental Polkadot Canary Network...
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Episode 103: Exploring VDFs with Joseph Bonneau from 2019-11-13T15:00
In this week’s episode, we sit down with Joseph Bonneau (http://jbonneau.com/), Assistant Professor at NYU and co-author on the Verifiable Delay Functions (VDFs) paper. We discuss VDFs, what they a...
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Episode 102: Mapping the Web3 stack with The Graph from 2019-11-06T15:00
In this week’s episode, we chat with Brandon Ramirez (https://twitter.com/RezBrandon), Research Lead and co-founder of The Graph (https://twitter.com/graphprotocol), about the problem the project ...
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Episode 101: TEEs with Yan Michalevsky from Anjuna from 2019-10-30T15:00
In this week’s episode, we chat with Yan Michalevsky (https://twitter.com/ymcrcat), CTO&Co-founder, Anjuna Security (https://www.anjuna.io/) about their work with TEEs, a continuation of topic we c...
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Episode 100: Dan Boneh on the past, present&future of cryptography from 2019-10-23T15:00
In this, our special 100th episode of the Zero Knowledge Podcast, we caught up with Dan Boneh (https://twitter.com/danboneh), professor and researcher in applied cryptography and computer security ...
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Episode 99: Post-Devcon5 catch-up with Tarun, James&Georgios from 2019-10-16T15:00
In this week's episode, Anna catches up with Tarun Chitra (https://twitter.com/tarunchitra) (Gauntlet Networks (https://gauntlet.network/)), James Prestwich (https://twitter.com/_prestwich) (Summa ...
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Episode 98: MimbleWimble pt 2: Beam Protocol from 2019-10-09T15:00
In this week’s episode, Anna sits down with with Alexander Zaidelson (https://twitter.com/azaidelson) and Alex Romanov (https://www.linkedin.com/in/bigromanov) from BEAM (https://beam.mw/) - a Mimb...
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Episode 97: MimbleWimble pt 1: Grin with Daniel Lehnberg from 2019-10-02T19:00
In this week’s episode, we chat with Daniel Lehnberg (https://github.com/lehnberg) about Grin - an implementation of the MimbleWimble privacy protocol. We cover the story behind MimbleWimble, how G...
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Episode 96: Eli Ben-Sasson on the latest from StarkWare and the origin of mathematical ideas from 2019-09-25T15:00
In this week’s episode, Anna catches up with Eli Ben Sasson (https://twitter.com/EliBenSasson) to talk about the latest from StarkWare (https://twitter.com/StarkWareLtd), the explosion of new resea...
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Episode 95: zkVM with Oleg Andreev from 2019-09-18T15:00
In this episode, we chat with the Oleg Andreev, a protocol architect from Stellar, about zkVM, the zero-knowledge virtual machine. In this episode, we learn a little bit about the history of Stell...
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Episode 94: Gnosis&Full Node with Friederike Ernst from 2019-09-11T15:00
In this episode, Anna chats with Friederike Ernst (https://twitter.com/tw_tter) from Gnosis (https://twitter.com/gnosisPM) about their work on prediction markets, wallet security, exchanges, and th...
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Episode 93: Light clients&ZKPs with Celo from 2019-09-04T15:00
In this episode, we chat with the Marek Olszewski (https://twitter.com/marekolszewski)&Kobi Gurkan (https://twitter.com/kobigurk) from Celo (https://celo.org/) about their proof-of-stake protocol, ...
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Episode 92: Jorge Izquierdo talks Aragon and DAOs from 2019-08-28T15:00
In this episode, Anna catches up with Jorge Izquierdo (https://twitter.com/izqui9) from Aragon One (https://aragon.one/) to talk about the beginning of the Aragon project, the history of DAOs, as w...
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Episode 91: Near Protocol's focus on UX from 2019-08-21T15:00
In this episode, we sit down with Alexander Skidanov (https://twitter.com/AlexSkidanov) and Illia Polosukhin (https://twitter.com/ilblackdragon) from Near Protocol (https://nearprotocol.com/) to fi...
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Episode 90: MPC systems with Nigel Smart from 2019-08-14T15:00
In this week's episode, we chat with Nigel Smart (https://twitter.com/SmartCryptology), Professor of Cryptology at KU Leuven (https://www.kuleuven.be/english/) and the co-founder of Unbound Tech (h...
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Episode 89: Eth2.0 update and a look at Libra with Raul Jordan from 2019-08-07T15:00
In this week’s episode, we invite Raul Jordan (https://medium.com/@rauljordan) from Prysmatic Labs back to our show. He shares an update about Prysmatic Labs and ETH2.0 development. We cover some o...
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Episode 88: Accumulators with Ben Fisch from 2019-07-31T15:00
In this week’s episode, we chat with Ben Fisch, Stanford PhD student working in Dan Boneh's applied cryptography group. In our conversation, we dig into accumulators, Merkle trees&vector commitment...
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Episode 87: The road to DEXs with Will Harborne from 2019-07-24T15:30
This week, we chat with Will Harborne (https://twitter.com/will_harborne), co-founder of Ethfinex (https://trustless.ethfinex.com/) and previously at Bitfinex, about the path from traditional excha...
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Episode 86: Ariel Gabizon on his work with zkSNARKs and the beauty of math from 2019-07-17T15:00
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 (https://filecoin....
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Episode 85: Zexe: Decentralized Private Computation with Pratyush Mishra from 2019-07-10T15:00
In this episode, we sit down with Pratyush Mishra (https://twitter.com/zkproofs), CS PhD Student at UC Berkeley and one of the co-authors on the Zexe project, to discuss the Zexe protocol. We cover...
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Episode 84: Zcash community&more with Amber Baldet from 2019-07-03T15:00
In this episode, we sit down at the Zcon1 Conference (https://www.zfnd.org/zcon/) in Croatia with Amber Baldet, CEO and co-founder of Clovyr, former JPMorgan Blockchain Program Lead, and board memb...
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Episode 83: From Warp Sync to SPREE with Polkadot's Rob Habermeier from 2019-06-26T15:00
In this episode, Anna chats with Robert Habermeier (https://twitter.com/rphmeier), one of the co-founders of Polkadot and an engineer at Parity Technology, about his early experience with Rust and ...
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Episode 82: TEEs, SGX and the Graphene project from 2019-06-19T15:15
In this week's episode we chat with two of the people behind the Graphene project (https://grapheneproject.io/), Chia-Che Tsai of Texas A&M University and Golem developer Lukasz Glen, about TEEs, I...
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Episode 81: P2P Messaging&Scuttlebutt with Dominic Tarr from 2019-06-12T15:00
In this week’s episode, we meet with Dominic Tarr (https://dominictarr.com/), a protocol designer and security auditor at Least Authority (https://leastauthority.com/) who works on Scuttlebutt (htt...
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Episode 80: On the Frontiers of Validation with Bison Trails from 2019-06-05T15:00
In this week's episode, Anna sits down with Joe Lallouz (https://twitter.com/JoeLallouz) and Aaron Henshaw (https://twitter.com/aaronhenshaw) from Bison Trails (https://bisontrails.co/) - a validat...
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Episode 79: Privacy&P4 with Liz and Chris from Least Authority from 2019-05-29T18:00
In this week's episode, we sit down with Liz Steininger (https://twitter.com/liz315) and Chris Wood from Least Authority (https://leastauthority.com/) to discuss the state of privacy today, the cas...
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Episode 78: Diving into Cosmos with Sunny from 2019-05-22T15:00
In this week's episode, Anna sits down with Sunny Aggarwal (https://twitter.com/sunnya97) to talk about his journey into blockchain, the beginnings of Blockchain at Berkeley, how he discovered Cosm...
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Episode 77: Funding Blockchain Development with Kevin Owocki from 2019-05-15T15:00
In this week, we sit down with Kevin Owocki, co-founder of gitcoin, to have a look at how open source blockchain development is funded. We cover the different methods for funding open source work, ...
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Episode 76: Sean Bowe on SNARKs, Trusted Setups&Elliptic Curve Cryptography from 2019-05-08T15:00
In this week’s episode, we welcome special guest Sean Bowe. Sean is an engineer at the Electric Coin Company (https://twitter.com/zcashco) and the author of the Sprout and Sapling Zcash trusted set...
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Episode 75: Exploring Aztec with Zac Williamson from 2019-05-01T15:00
In this week’s episode, we sit down with Zac Williamson (https://twitter.com/Zac_Aztec) of the Aztec Protocol (https://www.aztecprotocol.com/) to discuss zero knowledge tools, range proofs, the Azt...
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Episode 74: Blockchain 101: Randomness and Random Beacons with Justin Drake from 2019-04-24T15:00
In this week's episode, we sit down with Justin Drake (https://twitter.com/drakefjustin), researcher at the Ethereum Foundation, to discuss randomness in blockchain, how it can be created and what ...
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Episode 73: J. Ayo Akinyele Talks Lightning Network&Building Bolt from 2019-04-17T15:15
In this week's episode, we invite J. Ayo Akinyele (https://twitter.com/ja_akinyele) to the podcast. Ayo is a co-Founder of Bolt Labs (https://github.com/boltlabs-inc) which will be focused on devel...
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Episode 72: zkSNARKs for Scale with Matter Labs from 2019-04-10T15:00
In this week's episode, we sit down with the Alex Vlasov and Alex Gluchowski (https://twitter.com/gluk64) from Matter Labs to discuss their approach to using zkSNARKs for scaling the transaction pr...
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Episode 71: Getting Radicle with Julian Arni from 2019-04-03T16:30
In this week's episode, we speak with Julian Arni about Radicle, a decentralized alternative to Github built on IPFS. Radicle is both a programming language and a set of tools to enable decentralis...
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Episode 70: Digging into DAI with Rune Christensen from Maker from 2019-03-27T16:00
In this interview, we chat with Rune Christensen from MakerDAO (https://twitter.com/MakerDAO) about stablecoins, MakerDAO’s take on this concept, the peg and how this is maintained, security, oracl...
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Episode 69: Decentralised Storage with Arweave from 2019-03-20T17:00
In this week's episode, we sit down with Sam Williams (https://twitter.com/samecwilliams) of Arweave (https://www.arweave.org) to chat about their novel approach to decentralised storage. We discus...
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Episode 68: Conversations at EthCC from 2019-03-13T16:15
In this week's special episode, Anna pops over to EthCC (https://ethcc.io/) - the Ethereum Community Conference - to find out what's on people's minds. Speaking with Boris Mann (https://twitter.com...
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Episode 67: Formal Verification with Martin Lundfall from 2019-03-06T15:00
In this week's episode, we sit down with Martin Lundfall (https://twitter.com/martinlundfall) from Dapphub&MakerDAO to discuss formal verification (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_verification...
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Episode 66: ETH2.0 Update With Danny Ryan from 2019-02-27T15:00
In this week's episode, Anna and Fredrik chat with Danny Ryan (https://twitter.com/dannyryan) from the Ethereum Foundation (https://www.ethereum.org/foundation) about the ETH2.0 project. We cover h...
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Episode 65: Bridges, xDai and Burner Wallets with Igor&Austin from 2019-02-20T15:00
In this week’s episode, we sit down with Igor Barinov (https://twitter.com/barinov) from POA Network and Austin Griffith (https://twitter.com/austingriffith) from Gitcoin Labs to discuss bridges, x...
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Episode 64: Unleashing Melon into the wild with Jenna Zenk from 2019-02-13T15:00
In this week’s episode, Anna sits down with Jenna Zenk (https://twitter.com/jennaszenk), the CTO of Melonport (https://melonport.com/), to discuss her background, the path to the melon protocol, th...
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Episode 63: Proxy re-encryption and FHE with NuCypher from 2019-02-06T15:00
In this episode, we sit down with Bogdan Opanchuk and John "Tux" Pacific from NuCypher (https://www.nucypher.com/) to chat about their threshold proxy-encryption technology, how the project aims to...
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Episode 62: The path to an ERC standard from 2019-01-30T16:15
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...
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Episode 61: Statistical modeling of PoS systems with Tarun Chitra from 2019-01-23T15:00
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 mod...
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Episode 60: Cryptography 101: Multi-Party Computations from 2019-01-16T16:00
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 homom...
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Episode 59: STARKs&StarkWare with Eli and Alessandro from 2019-01-09T19:15
In this week's episode, we catch up with Eli Ben-Sasson and Alessandro Chiesa from StarkWare Industries (https://www.starkware.co/). We talk about their longstanding academic work in theoretic&appl...
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Episode 58: Kicking off 2019 with Jutta Steiner from 2019-01-02T15:00
In this week's episode, we sit down with Jutta Steiner (https://twitter.com/jutta_steiner), our friend and Fredrik's CEO at Parity Technologies (https://twitter.com/paritytech), to talk about her h...
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Episode 57: Merklize this! Merkle Trees&Patricia Tries from 2018-12-26T15:00
If you like what we do: Follow us on Twitter - @zeroknowledgefm (https://twitter.com/zeroknowledgefm)Join us on Telegram - https://t.me/joinchat/B_81tQ57-ThZg8yOSx5gjA Support us on Patreon - http...
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Episode 56: Get to know a Core Dev: Martin Holst Swende from 2018-12-19T15:00
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 i...
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Episode 55: ETHSingapore in review from 2018-12-12T19:00
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 spa...
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Episode 54: Digging into recursive zkSNARKs with Coda from 2018-12-05T15:00
In this week's episode, we sit down with Izaak Meckler&Evan Shapiro from O(1) Labs todiscuss Coda, a blockchain using recursive composition of zkSNARKs to eliminate history. We discuss recursive zk...
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Episode 53: Get to know a Core Dev: Péter Szilágyi from 2018-11-28T15:00
In this episode Fredrik sits down with Péter Szilágyi (https://twitter.com/peter_szilagyi), lead developer of go-ethereum (https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum) to talk about his background, wha...
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Episode 52: Vlad and Gav go head-to-head on blockchain governance from 2018-11-21T15:00
In this week's episode, we are joined by a couple greats in the space, Gavin Wood (https://twitter.com/gavofyork) and Vlad Zamfir (https://twitter.com/VladZamfir), to debate the merits of on-chain ...
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Episode 51: Exploring Spacemesh with Julian Loss from 2018-11-14T15:00
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 (https://twitter.com/...
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Episode 50: Zooko talks Zcash on our 50th episode from 2018-11-07T15:00
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 trus...
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Episode 49: Blockchain 101: Cryptoeconomic Primitives and Staking from 2018-10-31T15:00
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. Li...
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Episode 48: Talking UX with Taylor Monahan of MyCrypto from 2018-10-23T15:00
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 ...
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Episode 47: Chat with Richard Craib from Numerai from 2018-10-17T20:00
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 li...
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Episode 46: Gavin Wood on Polkadot, Sharding and Substrate from 2018-10-10T15:00
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 spawn...
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Episode 45: P2P messaging with Henri from Streamr from 2018-10-03T15:00
In this week's episode, we sit down with Henri Pihkala (https://twitter.com/henripihkala) from Streamr (https://www.streamr.com/) to talk p2p messaging and what it means. We cover topics like pubsu...
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Episode 44: Blockchain 101: Transaction lifecycle&the mempool from 2018-09-26T17:00
In this episode, we are joined by Tomasz Drwięga (https://twitter.com/tomusdrw), a Core Developer at Parity Technologies, to discuss the lifecycle of a transaction on the Ethereum network and how t...
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Episode 43: Hudson Jameson talks EIPs and Ethereum core decision-making from 2018-09-19T15:00
In this episode, we chat with Hudson Jameson of the Ethereum Foundation about how he got involved in the space, the EIP process, and the challenges of decision making in the decentralised space. In...
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Episode 42: ETHPrize&Open Source Block Explorers from 2018-09-12T15:00
In this episode, we sit down with Mitch Kosowski, director of product at ETHPrize and Andrew Cravenho, project leader at POA Network. We cover ETHPrize's inception and activity, the way that pain p...
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Episode 41: Zokrates with Jacob Eberhardt from 2018-09-05T15:00
In this episode, we had a chance to speak with Jacob Eberhardt about his work on Zokrates and the Zero Knowledge Proof Toolkit. Zokrates is a programming language&toolbox for zkSNARKS on Ethereum ...
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Episode 40: Benedikt Bünz on Bulletproofs and Verifiable Delay Functions from 2018-08-29T15:00
In this episode, we speak to Benedikt Bünz (https://crypto.stanford.edu/~buenz/), the author of Bulletproofs (https://crypto.stanford.edu/bulletproofs/), about this novel zero knowledge proof syste...
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Episode 39: Matthew Di Ferrante on the security of blockchain clients from 2018-08-22T16:00
In this episode, we speak with Matthew Di Ferrante of the smart contract auditing firm Zero Knowledge Labs (http://zklabs.io/) about security in the blockchain. Specifically we discuss how he first...
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Episode 38: Intro to zkSNARKs with Howard Wu from 2018-08-15T15:00
In this episode, we sit down with Howard Wu to explore zkSNARKs, the challenges in the application of this awesome technology, the new ideas emerging for how to scale them and his latest work on DI...
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Episode 37: Sharding Update With Prysmatic Labs from 2018-08-08T15:00
In this episode, we sit down with Raul (https://twitter.com/raulitojordan)&Preston (https://twitter.com/preston_vanloon) from Prysmatic Labs to discuss sharding, the evolution of the spec, Ethereum...
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Episode 36: Eric Tang of Livepeer talks off-chain computation from 2018-08-01T15:00
In this episode, we speak with Eric Tang from Livepeer about the need for off-chain computation, what scenarios make sense for off-chain and which can work on-chain, how Livepeer sees its role in t...
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Episode 35: Testnets with Ethan from Tendermint from 2018-07-25T15:00
In this episode, we sit down with Ethan (Bucky) Buchman, co-founder&CTO of Tendermint, to talk about testnets. We look into what they are, what purpose they serve and cover examples from Bitcoin, E...
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Episode 34: Blockchain 101: What are smart contracts? from 2018-07-18T16:00
In this episode, we dig into what the term smart contract means with our guest James Prestwich. First introduced in 1994 by Nick Szabo, smart contracts have inspired whole ecosystems of companies a...
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Episode 33: Open Source Incentivization and Sustainability with OSCoin from 2018-07-11T15:00
In this episode we sit down with Ele (https://twitter.com/lftherios) and Alexis (https://twitter.com/cloudhead?lang=en) from OSCoin to talk about what they are building and the general problem of o...
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Episode 32: Zero Knowledge at Zcon0! from 2018-07-04T18:00
In this week's episode, we cover the Zcon0 conference in Montreal. In our interviews with some of the participants, we explore the zcash community, projects actually implementing zero knowledge pro...
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Episode 31: Blockchain 101: Blocks&Block Headers from 2018-06-27T15:00
In this introductory episode, we discuss what makes up blocks and block headers. We also cover a bit about state vs history, what exactly makes up a transaction and do a quick intro to a Merkle Tre...
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Episode 30: Open Organizations&Governance with Colony from 2018-06-20T19:00
In this episode, we speak with Jack du Rose (https://twitter.com/jackdurose) and Aron Fischer (https://twitter.com/mathsguy) from Colony about governance and open organizations. Colony is building...
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Episode 29: The DAO, the white hat hacker group&Giveth with Griff from 2018-06-13T12:00
In this episode, Griff Green shares his experience of working through The DAO hack, the white hat hacker group&Giveth. Through his telling of this story, we are given a front row seat to one of the...
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Episode 28: ETHBuenosAires in review from 2018-06-06T09:00
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...
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Episode 27: Zeppelin and a chat about upgradability from 2018-05-30T16:00
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, ...
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Episode 26: What and why of eWasm with Lane and Alex from 2018-05-23T16:00
In this episode, we sit down with Lane Rettig (https://twitter.com/lrettig) and Alex Beregszaszi (https://twitter.com/alexberegszaszi) from the eWasm team at the Ethereum Foundation to talk about W...
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Episode 25: Storage rent with Phil Daian from 2018-05-16T16:15
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 transac...
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Episode 24: Blockchain UX and the UXUnConf from 2018-05-11T03:00
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...
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Episode 23: Blockchain 101: get your full node running! from 2018-05-03T14:00
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...
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Episode 22: Developer Education in Blockchain from 2018-04-26T16:00
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 block...
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Episode 21: Introduction to Zero Knowledge Proofs from 2018-04-19T14:00
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 import...
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Episode 20: Ecosystem development with Jon Choi of Ethereum Foundation from 2018-04-12T12:00
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 ...
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Episode 19: ZK Summit, sharding, testnets and ASIC resistance from 2018-04-05T12:00
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 T...
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Episode 17: Discussing Plasma and Storage Rent with Karl Floersch and Phil Daian from 2018-03-22T16:00
Plasma is a new type of scaling solution that Karl is helping to develop, and Phil tries to tear it apart. Phil also introduces the topic of storage rent, which is an uncomfortable truth we'll have...
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Episode 16: Talking security with JP Smith from Trail of Bits from 2018-03-15T12:00
This week we sit down with JP Smith from the software security firm Trail of Bits. Trail of Bits started as a traditional infosec company doing audits and R&D. Over the past year, the company has b...
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Episode 15: Chatting about consensus algorithms with Robert Habermeier from 2018-03-08T11:00
Fredrik has a chat about consensus algorithms with Parity Technologies in-house consensus expert Robert Habermeier. We cover what a consensus algorithm is and how they work. We try to explain some ...
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Episode 14: Diving deep into DFINITY from 2018-03-01T17:00
In this episode, we do a deep dive into the DFINITY protocol project and their recently released whitepaper. Using a randomness beacon, DFINITY aims to achieve an efficient and fair PoS system with...
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Episode 13: Bloom filters, PoA and what's up with ERP? from 2018-02-22T17:00
The gang catches up on what's been going on in the blockchain world for the past month, sharing some nuggets of learning around bloom filters, Proof of Authority, upcoming events, the Dfinity paper...
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Episode 12: How to become a blockchain developer? We ask Gavin Wood from 2018-02-15T16:00
In this episode, we talk about what it takes to be a blockchain developer. Fredrik shares some of his insights and interviews Gavin Wood, co-founder of Parity and Ethereum, about how he got into th...
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Episode 11: Pragma's new tools and staying agile in blockchain from 2018-02-08T15:00
In this episode, we sit down with John Palmer and Marcus Molchany to discuss their new project Pragma, a tool designed to make deploying smart contracts much easier for developers who are new to th...
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Episode 10: Blockchain, Open-Source&Security from 2018-02-01T16:00
In this episode, we will be talking with Liz Steininger, the CEO and MD of Least Authority - a Berlin based company focused on building an affordable, ethical, usable, and lasting data storage solu...
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Episode 9: Bootnodes, Databases and News from 2018-01-25T16:00
In this episode, we invite André, a Parity dev, to join us in a review of the latest activity in Parity and the general blockchain space. We cover bootnode infrastructure, database issues, the upda...
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Episode 8: Decentralized Storage Part 2: Solutions from 2018-01-18T12:00
Part 2 in our series on decentralized storage: Solutions. In this episode, we look at the problems decentralised storage are trying to solve, interesting projects trying to tackle these problems an...
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Episode 7: Decentralized Storage Part 1: Looking back from 2018-01-10T08:00
Part 1 in our series on decentralized storage: Looking back. Fredrik and Anna talk about some history and memories of peer-to-peer technology, file sharing and decentralized storage. We dig into ou...
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Episode 6: s/2017/2018: our New Year's Podcast from 2018-01-02T15:00
In this episode, Anna and Fredrik have a look back at 2017 and the changing blockchain ecosystem with ex-Ethereum Foundation and current-Parity core dev, Marek Kotewicz(https://twitter.com/mkotew)....
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Episode 5: A fireside chat with a couple Parity peeps from 2017-12-18T15:00
In this episode, Anna and Fredrik are joined by 3 fellow Parity employees to talk about what first got them interested in blockchain and the whole decentralised scene, how the greater community has...
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Episode 4: Dapps and Kitties from 2017-12-12T17:00
We talk about what we've been working on for the past week and what's been going on in the community and our lives.
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Episode 3: Hard Forks from 2017-10-20T19:00
We go over what Hard Forks are, what they mean and what this particular one, Byzantium, brought to Ethereum.
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Episode 2: PoW, what is it and why do we want PoS from 2017-10-09T09:00
Wherein we talk about Proof of Work, what it is and how it has developed and why we want or might not want Proof of Stake instead.
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Episode 1: RustFest 2017 in Review from 2017-10-04T17:00
Jack, Anna and Fredrik talk about their experience at RustFest 2017 in Zürich. Parity Technologies was one of the main sponsors and so we went there with a crew and had a booth. Many interesting co...
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