Happy to introduce zkMesh - a monthly newsletter focused on sharing the latest in decentralised privacy-preserving technologies, privacy protocol development and SNARKy / zk-goodness.

We cover the latest research, useful articles, videos, podcasts, tweets, tools and events. Expect a new newsletter every month and be sure to subscribe! 

It’s put together by Mikerah (Hashcloak) and Anna (Zero Knowledge Podcast) - Enjoy! 

Research 

• Simulated Blockchains for Machine Learning Traceability and Transaction Values in the Monero Network

• Correlations of Multi-input Monero Transactions

• Wormhole: a new CoinJoin-based mixing strategy for Bitcoin

• Promises: fast 0conf and mempool payments for Zcash

• On-chain Bitcoin Analysis Reveals New Depth of PlusToken Scam

• Transparent Polynomial Delegation and Its Applications to Zero Knowledge Proof 

• Triptych: logarithmic-sized ring signatures with applications

• Efficient polynomial commitments schemes for multiple points and polynomials

• Chainalysis Crypto Crime report

Articles

• A Cambrian Explosion of Zero Knowledge Proofs 

• Impacts of transparent migrations for Zcash users

• Analyzing Wasabi Wallet with KYCP.org

• Tornado by Gavin Andresen

• About supply auditability by Sarang Noether and Justin Ehrenhofer

• A more private eth wallet by Gavin Andresen

• Knapsack Mixing by Nopara73

• How to stay anonymous with Tornado.cash and similar solutions

• Your Privacy is not guaranteed online: Introducing a framework for privacy in eCommerce for Bitcoin

• Private Transactions on Kickback.events with Tornado.cash

• CoinJoin Flagging

• Report: 99.9% of Bitcoin transactions don’t go through the darknet

Interesting Videos and Podcasts

• Institutions and individuals need effective privacy solutions by Justin Ehrenhofer

• Wasabi Research Club

• Unappreciated features of Wasabi Wallet by Nopara37

• Beam Secure Bulletin Board System

• Justin Drakes Polynomial Commitment presentations Part 1Part 2Part 3

• Mixers with Tornado.cash

• Dive into Plonk!

• Latest recursive SNARKitecture with Izaak Meckler from O(1)Labs

• Exploring the Fractal transparent SNARK construction

Blockchain Privacy in a TweetShell

• Thoughts on Bitcoin privacy, anonymity and economic settlement

• Thoughts on the pitfalls of using Bitcoin, despite its humanitarian benefits

• Thread on the privacy pitfalls of Bitcoin and what this means in the context of the traditional finance industry

• Taint is not intrinsic to a coin but is an imposed property by an analyst

• Some thoughts on Bitcoin, privacy, anonymity and economic ability to settle on-chain

• Without the ability to use Bitcoin privately, there is no censorship resistance

Guides and Resources

• Bitcoin Privacy Guide by 6102bitcoin

• Guide to using Samurai Wallet on Android

• Baby SNARK (do do dodo dodo)

• A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography by Dan Boneh and Victor Shoup 

• BLS12-381 Primer

Project Updates

• Salad: Enigma Project’s non-custodial mixing solution for Ethereum

• Wasabi Wallet launches BitcoinIsSafe Compaign to Counter Wrong Antivirus Detections

• WasabiWallet switches to new coordinator fee addresses in response to exchanges flagging the previous coordinator fee address

Tools

• Circuit oblivious heap over garbled circuits

• txCast: Randomized Bitcoin transaction broadcasting to break timing analysis

• Wasabi Research Club

• Optimizations to Zero-Knowledge Proving Systems

• Multipoint, multipolynomial batched openings from inner product arguments

Events

• Blockchain Ideology after the crypto boom - Paris, Feb 12

• Stark101 by Starkware - SF, Feb 17

• EthCC - Paris, March 3-5

• zkSummit5 - Berlin, March 31st, via application only

• Edcon - Vienna, April 3-7

• zkProofs workshop3 - London, April 4-7

• Zcon2 - Lima, Peru, June 20-22

There you have it! Hope you liked this first edition of zkMesh. Be sure to subscribe to get the next edition in your inbox.  

Also if you have something you think should be included in the next edition, or something you think we should do different with the format - Tweet at us!

- Mikerah and Anna