zkMesh: March 2022 recap
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Research
Gemini: elastic SNARKs for diverse environments by Jonathan Bootle, Alessandro Chiesa, Yuncong Hu, Michele Orrù.
Lattice-Based ZKPs and Applications by Vadim Lyubashevsky, Ngoc Khanh Nguyen, and Maxime Plançon
Lattice-based group encryptions with only one trapdoor by Jing Pan, Jiang Zhang, Fangguo Zhang, Xiaofeng Chen & Willy Susilo
Usability of Cryptocurrency Wallets Providing CoinJoin Transactions by Simin Ghesmati and Walid Fdhila and Edgar Weippl
zkKYC in DeFi: An approach for implementing the zkKYC solution concept in Decentralized Finance by Pieter Pauwels and Joni Pirovich and Peter Braunz and Jack Deeb
SNARGs for P from Sub-exponential DDH and QR by James Hulett and Ruta Jawale and Dakshita Khurana and Akshayaram Srinivasan
Co-factor clearing and subgroup membership testing on pairing-friendly curves by Youssef El Housni and Aurore Guillevic and Thomas Piellard
Simple Three-Round Multiparty Schnorr Signing with Full Simulatability by Yehuda Lindell
Efficient NIZKs from LWE via Polynomial Reconstruction and “MPC in the Head" by Riddhi Ghosal and Paul Lou and Amit Sahai
On the Algebraic Degree of Iterated Power Functions by Clémence Bouvier and Anne Canteaut and Léo Perrin
Efficient Representation of Numerical Optimization Problems for SNARKs by Sebastian Angel, Andrew J. Blumberg, Eleftherios Ioannidis, Jess Woods
Aggregating hash-based signatures using STARKs by Irakliy Khaburzaniya and Konstantinos Chalkias and Kevin Lewi and Harjasleen Malvai
Counting Vampires: From Univariate Sumcheck to Updatable ZK-SNARK by Helger Lipmaa and Janno Siim and Michał Zając
Witness-Authenticated Key Exchange Revisited: Improved Models, Simpler Constructions, Extensions to Groups by Matteo Campanelli and Rosario Gennaro and Kelsey Melissaris and Luca Nizzardo
Articles
What are Trusted Setups? | Vitalik Buterin
EIP-1559 In Retrospect | Decentralized Thoughts | Yinhong (William) Zhao, Kartik Nayak
The (r)Evolution of FHE | Zama | Jeremy Bradley-Silverio Donato
What is a cryptocurrency mixer and how does it work? | Cointelegraph | Onkar Singh
Privacy on Polkadot Recap | ZKValidator | Hector Perez
Slush, a proposal for Fractal scaling | Geometry
Extreme Integrity in Decentralized World | Starkware | Eli Ben-Sasson
Hacker Drains $622M From Axie Infinity's Ronin Ethereum Sidechain | Decrypt | Andrew Hayward
Quantum computers are many years away from cracking crypto: MIT Tech Review | Cointelegraph | Brian Quarmby
EU Parliament Passes Privacy-Busting Crypto Rules Despite Industry Criticism | Coindesk | Jack Schickler
Now You Can Try 'Teleporting' Bitcoin for Greater Privacy With CoinSwaps | Coindesk | Alyssa Hertig
Safeguarding Our Privacy in an Age of Transparency | Coindesk | Jill Gunter
Ukraine's Zelenskyy Signs Virtual Assets Bill Into Law, Legalizing Crypto | Coindesk | Eliza Gkritsi
Privacy-Protecting Crypto Airdrops with ZKPs | a16z blog | Sam Ragsdale
Videos/Podcast
Monash University Australia: Zero-Knowledge Proofs of Isogeny - Cybersecurity
Web3 Talks: How Tornado Cash provides resilient privacy for Web 3 w/Roman Storm
Proof of Decentralizations: Aztec Network - Privacy on Ethereum
ZK Hack Mini: Writing STARK proofs with Winterfell
More ZK Hack Mini videos: Miden VM, Plonky2, Polynomial Identity Language Workshop, ZK Panel
Zero Knowledge Podcast: The Road to Plonky2 with Brendan and Daniel from Polygon Zero
Zero Knowledge Podcast: Funding the Next Wave of Zero Knowledge Tech
Zero Knowledge Podcast: Something Brewing with Jill Gunter and Ben Fisch from Espresso Systems
ZK in a TweetShell
Vulnerabilities/Audits
Axie Infinity Bridge Hack: Community Alert: Ronin Validators Compromised
Guides and Resources
Protocol Labs: A deep dive into the Filecoin Storage Provider Ecosystem | A high level overview of Filecoin, with resources to go deeper
Introducing ZBI | Zcash Blockchain Infrastructure (ZBI)
Tools
Otti - zkSnark compiler, solver, prover and verifier for optimization problems
Hardhat circom v3.0.0 Released - New default circom2 compiler
Zerokit - ZK modules designed to be used in other environments
EspressoSystems/jellyfish: A Rust Implementation of the PLONK ZKP System and Extensions
Events/Hackathons/TrustedSetups
Real World Crypto 2022 Amsterdam / Virtual. April 13-15
Paris Blockchain Week Paris. April 13-14
ZKV presents… Privacy in Cosmos Amsterdam. April 15
Devconnect Week Amsterdam. April 18-24
ZKSummit 7 Amsterdam. April 21
ETHAmsterdam Amsterdam. April 22-24
Eurocrypt 2022 Trondheim, Norway. May 30-June 3
FHE Conference. Trondheim, Norway. May 29
Blocksplit.net Split, Croatia. May 23-25
Eth Prague Prague. June 10-12
Summer School on Real-World Crypto and Privacy Šibenik, Croatia. June 13-17
Polkadot Decoded Multi-city: Berlin, Mexico City, New York and Shanghai. June 29-30
EthCC Paris. July 19-21
ZCon dates tbd [CFP open]
Crypto 2022 Santa Barbara, California. August 13-18
The Science of Blockchain Conference 2022 (SBC'22) Stanford, California. Aug 29-Sep 2
Road to Devcon. Bogota, Columbia. October 11-14
Project Updates
Announcing the ZPrize Competition! | Aleo Blog
Aleo Announces Partnership with Forte | Aleo Blog
Fractal Scaling: What is it? | Anoma Blog | Grabiella Wong
Understanding the basics of coordination | Anoma Blog | Alexander Miles
An Overview of Anoma's Architecture | Anoma Blog | Awa Sun Yin
Privacy for Pennies: Scaling Aztec's zkRollup| Aztec Network | Jon Wu
Introducing Espresso Systems | Espresso Systems
Espresso Systems Launches to Public Amid a $32M Raise | Blockworks | Jacquelyn Melinek
Tornado Cash New Decentralized Relayers Network | Tornado Cash Blog
zkApps Workshop & Bootcamp Retro | Mina Blog
Mina Raises $92M Capital Raise Led by FTX Ventures and Three Arrows Capital | Mina Blog
Introducing Polygon ID, Zero-Knowledge Identity for Web3 | Polygon Blog
Introducing Dark Forest Lobbies | Dark Forest team
Campfire, a private by default, open source Firo mobile wallet | Firo | Reuben Yap
Spats: Confidential Assets powered by Spark | Firo | Reuben Yap
Offshift & Zokyo Partner on Confidential Token Development | Offshift
ink! 3.0: Parity's Rust-Based Language for WASM Smart Contracts Gets a Major Update | Parity Technologies
Extreme Integrity in Decentralized World | StarkWare
StarkNet Alpha 0.8.0. Introducing: Fee Mechanism | StarkWare
ZK Funding Sources
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