Top picks
- A Trusted Setup Ceremony Step, RISC Zero’s one will conclude on 10.05.2024. (07.05.2024)
- Modular vs. Monolithic Is Dead - article by Avi Zurlo. (02.05.2024)
- disrupting tech, verify don’t trust, recipes for SNARKs - post by a16zcrypto. (04.05.2024)
- A framework for heterogenous proof aggregation - article by RizeLabs. (07.05.2024)
Reading materials
- The Rollup Coaster #25 - biweekly update on rollup world. (01.05.2024)
- Modular vs. Monolithic Is Dead - article by Avi Zurlo. (02.05.2024)
- Zero-Knowledge Proof of SHA256 Hash using zkSNARK - article by Binod Karunanayake. (02.05.2024)
- On amortization techniques for FRI-based SNARKs - academic text by Albert Garreta, Hayk Hovhanissyan, Aram Jivanyan, Ignacio Manzur, Isaac Villalobos and Michał Zając. (02.05.2024)
- Mempool Privacy via Batched Threshold Encryption: Attacks and Defenses - academic text by Arka Rai Choudhuri, Sanjam Garg, Julien Piet and Guru-Vamsi Policharla. (02.05.2024)
- SigmaSuite: How to Minimize Foreign Arithmetic in ZKP Circuits While Keeping Succinct Final Verification. - academic text by Wyatt Benno. (03.05.2024)
- Is the future of blockchain off-chain? The Rise of Zero Knowledge Virtual Machines - article by Revanth Gundala. (03.05.2024)
- Olympic Privacy-Preserving Blueprints: Faster Communication, Highly Functional, Stronger Security - academic text by Scott Griffy, Markulf Kohlweiss, Anna Lysyanskaya and Meghna Sengupta. (03.05.2024)
- disrupting tech, verify don’t trust, recipes for SNARKs - post by a16zcrypto. (04.05.2024)
- Coded ZKP/FHE, a decentralized, collaborative, robust ZKP/FHE System - article by 0x1cc. (05.05.2024)
- ZKBoost: A novel XGBoost model for ZKML. (06.05.2024)
- How Horizen is Redefining Blockchain with Zero-Knowledge Proofs - article by Ishan Pendey. (06.05.2024)
- A framework for heterogenous proof aggregation - article by RizeLabs. (07.05.2024)
- Why Cardano Doesn’t Need Sequencers For ZK Rollups? - article by Cardanians.io. (07.05.2024)
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A2-DIDM: Privacy-preserving Accumulator-enabled Auditing for Distributed Identity of DNN Model - academic text by Tianxiu Xie, Keke Gai, Jing Yu, Liehuang Zhu and Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo. (07.05.2024)
Risc0
- Steel - Hardened off-chain Execution for EVM dapps. (02.05.2024)
- Introducing Steel. (03.05.2024)
- A Trusted Setup Ceremony Step, RISC Zero’s one will conclude on 10.05.2024. (07.05.2024)
Watching materials
- Paul Lou: Hard Languages in NP ∩ coNP and NIZK Proofs from Unstructured Hardness. (01.05.2024)
- Workshop: Age Verification using Zero Knowledge Proof: 2. (01.05.2024)
- Theory to Code: Building the Breakthrough zkVM Jolt. (02.05.2024)
- Privacy preserving statistics: ZKStats and MPCStats - ZK Jumpstart Series #2. (03.05.2024)
- Day 3 - Zero Knowledge Proofs and zk powered blockchains. (03.05.2024)
Listening materials
- Weekly Zero Knowledge Podcast episode - Episode 322: Definitions, Security and Sumcheck in ZK Systems with Justin Thaler. (01.05.2024)
- Absolutely Zero Knowledge Podcast episode - Episode 9: Dhruv Bodani & Abhishek Kumar. (01.05.2024)
- Epicenter Podcast episode - Near Protocol: ’Blockchains Cannot Scale Without Sharding!’ - Illia Polosukhin. Alex Skidanov 546. (04.05.2024)
MPC
- Homomorphic Evaluation of LWR-based PRFs and Application to Transciphering - academic text by Amit Deo, Marc Joye, Benoit Libert, Benjamin R. Curtis and Mayeul de Bellabre
- HRA-Secure Homomorphic Lattice-Based Proxy Re-Encryption with Tight Security - academic text by Aloni Cohen, David Bruce Cousins, Nicholas Genise, Erik Kline, Yuriy Polyakov and Saraswathy RV. (02.05.2024)
- Privacy-aware Berrut Approximated Coded Computing for Federated Learning - academic text by Xavier Martínez Luaña, Rebeca P. Díaz Redondo and Manuel Fernández Veiga. (02.05.2024)
- The power of multiparty computation ceremonies. (05.05.2024)
Updates of ZK projects
- Optimism - Redstone Mainnet is Live, Featuring Plasma Mode. (01.05.2024)
- Recapping zkLink’s L3 Summit Trilogy At TOKEN2049 Dubai. (01.05.2024)
- Digital Identity: Solving the Privacy Problem with Zero Knowledge Proofs. (02.05.2024)
- Onboarding Rollups to EigenDA. (03.05.2024)
- The Citrea Recap – April. (03.05.2024)
- Heurist’s April Highlights. (03.05.2024)
- ZKM raises 5 million dollars ahead of Bitcoin-based Layer 2 launch. (07.05.2024)
- Mina - Three Expert Teams Chosen to Introduce zkOracle Features to o1js. (07.05.2024)
- Elusiv is now Arcium. (07.05.2024)
Upcoming events
- ZK Hack Kraków - hackathon on May 2024 in Kraków, Poland.
- DappCon 2024 - conference on May 2024 in Berlin, Germany.
- ZKproof 6 - workshop on May 2024 in Berlin, Germany.
- ETHBerlin - conference on May 2024 in Berlin, Germany.
- EthPrague 2024 - conference on May/June 2024.
- FHE Summit 2024 - summit on July 2024 in Brussels, Belgium.
- ETHGlobal Brussels - conference on July 2024 in Brussels, Belgium.
- The Ethereum Community Conference 2024 - conference on July 2024 in Brussels, Belgium.
- Korea Blockchain Week 2024 - conference week on September 2024 in Seoul, South Korea.
- ETHGlobal Singapore - conference on September 2024 in Singapore.
- ETHGlobal San Francisco - conference on October 2024 in San Francisco, USA.
- European WEB3 summit 2024 - summit on November 2024 in Brussels, Belgium.
- DevCon 2024 - Devcon for new Ethereum explorers on November 2024 in Bangkok, Thailand.
- ETHGlobal Bangkok - conference on November 2024 in Bangkok, Thailand.
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