Tarun and James talk Flash Loans & more
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'. We...
26 Feb 20201h 10min
Isogenies with Luca De Feo
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 randomn...
19 Feb 20201h
zkSync and Redshift: Matter Labs update
In this week's episode of the podcast, we catch up with Alex Glukowski of Matter Labs to hear about zkSync, the latest iteration of their zkRollup implementation built to be a scaling and privacy engi...
12 Feb 202056min
Cosmos, IBC and ZKPs with Chris Goes
In this week’s episode, we catch up with Christopher Goes, IBC Lead at Tendermint. We learn a bit more about the Cosmos Network ecosystem and his work on IBC. We then focus in on how he is thinking ab...
5 Feb 20201h 2min
Exploring the Fractal transparent SNARK construction
This week, we explore the Fractal transparent SNARK construction with its authors Dev Ojha and Nick Spooner - both students of Alessandro Chiesa at UC Berkeley. We explore how Fractal works, how it im...
29 Jan 202050min
Latest recursive SNARKitecture with Izaak Meckler from O(1)Labs
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 SNARKit...
22 Jan 202051min
Dive into Plonk!
In this week’s episode, we learn more about Plonk with Ariel Gabizon and Zac Williamson from Aztec. PLONK is a recent highly efficient, universal SNARK construction. We explore what distinguishes Plon...
15 Jan 202055min
Mixers with Tornado.cash
In this week’s episode, we chat with Roman Storm and Roman Semanov from Tornado.cash all about mixers. We explore what they are used for and how they work, how Zero Knowledge can be incorporated to pr...
8 Jan 20201h 1min
