Zero Knowledge21 Elo 2024

ZK in Celestia with Connor O’Hara

Summary

In this week’s episode, Anna chats with Connor O’Hara from Celestia. After discussing the latest ZK Hack Montréal event where Connor was a judge, they dive into his professional background, the ecosystems he has been a part of and what led him to work on Celestia. They then discuss various ZK-focused initiatives within the Celestia ecosystem.

Here’s some additional links for this episode:

Episode 311: The Launch of Celestia and Beyond

03:22 ZK Hack Montréal

08:08 ZK Hack Devfolio

24:33 Episode 151: John Adler on Optimistic vs ZK Rollup and the data availability problem

30:24 Episode 208: Digging into Data Availability with Ismail Khoffi from Celestia

41:26 Episode 220: The Road to Plonky2 with Brendan and Daniel from Polygon Zero

46:49 Vitalik Buterin Endgame Blog Post

49:41 Light Nodes Everywhere: Why & How - Connor O'Hara at Modulard Summit

56:29 ZK11: 1 Circuit, 5 Rollups: Building a Re-Usable DA Integration for ZK Rollups - Connor O'Hara

Check out the ZK Jobs Board for the latest jobs in ZK at jobsboard.zeroknowledge.fm

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