Episode 178: Exploring SNARKs for Sidechains with Alberto from Horizen - a podcast by Fredrik Harrysson, Anna Rose

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 episode centers around the world of sidechains for UTXO-based blockchains such as Horizen or Zcash. The Horizen team has developed Latus and Zendoo, a SNARK-powered mechanism for designing trustless sidechains. Alberto explains how Horizen’s Zendoo system works under the hood to connect a mainchain with a set of sidechains built for specific purposes, while Latus’s design diminishes reliance on bridge validators.Here are some links for this episode:
- Paper on Zendoo and Latus (https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/123.pdf)- Latus incentive scheme white paper (https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/399.pdf)
- J. Ayo Akinyele Talks Lightning Network&Building Bolt, Zero Knowledge episode 73 (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/73)
- An overview of Bitcoin sidechain designs with their benefits and drawbacks on Deribit Insights (https://insights.deribit.com/market-research/a-new-sidechain-design-for-bitcoin/)Tomorrow we’re hosting the Privacy on Polkadot event as part of our ZK Validator work. This is going to be the first of many privacy-centric meetups for Polkadot and other chains, hosting privacy projects from across the Web3 space.
The event will run from 3 PM CET to 6 PM CET (9 AM-12 PM ET).Here is the link to join: https://hopin.com/events/privacy-on-polkadot
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