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Welcome to zkMesh, a monthly newsletter covering the latest in decentralized privacy-enhancing technologies, privacy protocol development and zero knowledge systems research. zkMesh is put together by Mikerah & Yahsin from HashCloak and Anna from Zero Knowledge Podcast & ZKValidator. 

It includes links to research, useful articles, videos, podcasts, tweets, tools, project updates and events. Expect a new edition at the beginning of every month and be sure to share and subscribe!   

Research 

  • Reinforced Concrete: Fast Hash Function for Zero Knowledge Proofs and Verifiable Computation by Mario Barbara, Lorenzo Grassi, Dmitry Khovratovich, Reinhard Luftenegger, Christian Rechberger, Markus Schofneggerk, Roman Walch. 

  • Differential Privacy in Constant Function Market Makers by Tarun Chitra, Guillermo Angeris, Alex Evans.  

  • A Simple Post-Quantum Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge Proof from Garbled Circuits by Hongrui Cui and Kaiyi Zhang. 

  • Aggregating hash-based signatures using STARKs by Irakliy Khaburzaniya, Konstantinos Chalkias, Kevin Lewi, and Harjasleen Malvai. 

  • Brakedown: Linear-time and post-quantum SNARKs for R1CS∗ by Alexander Golovnev, Jonathan Lee, Srinath Setty, Justin Thaler, Riad S. Wahby.

  • Lelantus-CLA by Pyrros Chaidos and Vladislav Gelfer. 

  • LOVE a pairing by Diego F. Aranha and Elena Pagnin and Francisco Rodríguez-Henríquez. 

  • SIDH Proof of Knowledge by Luca De Feo, Samuel Dobson, Steven D. Galbraith, and Lukas Zobernig. 

  • Zero-Knowledge Middleboxes by Paul Grubbs, Arasu Arun, Ye Zhang, Joseph Bonneau and Michael Walfish. 

  • Mt. Random: Multi-Tiered Randomness Beacons by Ignacio Cascudo and Bernardo David and Omer Shlomovits and Denis Varlakov.

Articles

  • Polygon acquires Hermez Network for $250M, will merge native tokens | Cointelegraph

  • Introducing Zero-Knowledge Proofs for Private Web Attestation with Cross/Multi-Vendor Hardware | The Cloudflare blog

  • Demystifying recursive zero-knowledge proofs | Simon Masson | Anoma Blog

  • Privacy Startup Nym Hires Whistleblower Chelsea Manning to Audit Mixnet | Coindesk

  • How does PLONK work? Part 1: What's PLONK? | David Wong 

  • John Oliver's Last Week Tonight Takes Aim At Privacy Coin Monero | Scott Chipolina | Decrypt

  • Palantir Bug Gave FBI Unauthorized Access to Virgil Griffith Data | Adriana Hamacher | Decrypt

  • Bitcoin Mixer CEO Pleads Guilty to Dark Web Money Laundering | Jeff John Roberts | Decrypt

  • Concerns around data privacy are rising, and blockchain is the solution | Cointelegraph | Anne Fauvre-Willis

  • Mitigating Sandwich Attacks at the Protocol Level | Nicolas Laurent 

Videos/Podcast

  • ZKPodcast: zkEVM with Jordi & David from Hermez

  • Epicenter: Aztec Protocol – Bringing Scalable Privacy to DeFi #405

  • Taipei Ethereum: Oskar's talk on zk-SNARKs mathematical foundations

  • Taipei Ethereum: CC’s talk on Tornado Cash with Poseidon Hash

  • IACR s-17: Invited Talk II (Jens Groth)

  • IACR s-158: Zero-Knowledge

  • IACR: Threshold Schnorr with Stateless Deterministic Signing from Standard Assumptions

  • Nym: Holistic Privacy: Why Zero-Knowledge Proofs Are Not Enough

  • Aztec: Plonk in Dystopian Times

  • Ariel Gabizon: Polynomial protocols for range proofs

  • SCRF Interviews: PlonK and SNARKS with Ariel Gabizon and Lucas Nuzzi

Blockchain Privacy in a TweetShell

Twitter avatar for @tarunchitra
Tarun Chitra @tarunchitra
⚠️ 📰💧🚨 Tired but true: Private Uniswap can’t exist Wired: *Differentially Private* Uniswap does exist This month’s paper (9th in a row!): can’t get the mechanism we want, but there exists one that we need eprint.iacr.org/2021/1101 (Storytime! 📓)
Twitter avatar for @0xbunnygirl
Bunny Girl @0xbunnygirl
Is it possible to do completely private CFMMs on-chain?
5:04 PM ∙ Aug 26, 2021
133Likes21Retweets
Twitter avatar for @josephdelong
Joseph Delong 🔱 @josephdelong
I am most excited about a private EVM. Who will be the first?
3:23 PM ∙ Aug 20, 2021
161Likes4Retweets

Vulnerabilities

  • Collaborative Markdown Knowledge Base

  • Two Rights Might Make A Wrong | samczsun | Paradigm 

  • Popsicle Finance Exploit: How The Hacker Did It | Breadcrumbs 

  • Explainer: How hackers stole and returned $600 mln in tokens from Poly | Reuters

  • NetworkQuantum attack resource estimate: Using Shor’s algorithm to break RSA VS DH/DSA VS ECC | Tommaso Gagliardoni 

Tools 

  • RC Hash

  • https://github.com/supranational/blst

  • https://github.com/matter-labs/compiler-yul

  • https://github.com/zkvalidator/mina-vrf-rs

  • https://github.com/JoinMarket-Org/joinmarket-clientserver/releases/tag/v0.9.0

Project Updates

  • ZK Open Legal Working Group and Report Launch | ZKValidator

  • Announcing Aleo Setup | Alex Pruden | Aleo

  • Introducing Hermez zkEVM | Polygon Hermez

  • Zero Knowledge Podcast has a new website! | ZK Podcast

  • Presenting Lelantus Spark, Firo's Flexible New Privacy Protocol | Firo

  • Zcash Should Go Proof Of Stake And Wind Down Its Carbon Footprint | Steven Ehlrlich | Forbes

  • Ferveo Cryptography Overview | Joel Bebel | Anoma

  • Warp Your Way To StarkNet | Greg Vardy | Nethermind

  • Cairo – a Turing-complete STARK-friendly CPU architecture | Lior Goldberg and Shahar Papini and Michael Riabzev

  • Dark Forest v0.6 Round 3: Grape Extra-Small | Dark Forest 

  • ZKSwap Announces Deployment of V2 on BSC Mainnet

  • A Trustless Sidechain-to-StarkEx Bridge Secured by Ethereum | StarkWare 

  • Explaining Polygon Hermez | Polygon Hermez

  • Tornado.Cash Deployment Proposal On xDAI | Tornado Cash

  • Consulting ZCAP on ZF Board Elections & the Future of Zcash | Zcash Foundation

  • Into the Unknown. Detailed Technical Insights into the Challenges of Building zkSync 2.0 | astarinmymind | Matter Labs

Events/Hackathons/TrustedSetups

  • ZK Jobs Fair #4 Online. Sept 30 2021

  • Aleo trusted setup Online. On now!

  • IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy 2021 (EuroS&P) Online. Sept 6-10, 2021

  • CHES 2021 Online. 13-17 September 2021

  • ACM Advances in Financial Technologies George Mason Campus in Arlington, VA. Sept 26-28 2021

  • Cryptographic Frontier Open Problems in Ethereum Research Zagreb, Croatia. Oct 17, 2021 

  • Eurocrypt 2021 Zagreb, Croatia. October 17-21 2021

  • WAHC 2021 – 9th Workshop on Encrypted Computing & Applied Homomorphic Cryptography Seoul South Korea. Nov 15, 2021

  • Tokenomics 2021 Online. Nov 18-19, 2021

  • 18th IMA International Conference on Cryptography and Coding Online. Dec 14-15, 2021

  • Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2021 March 1-5 2022

  • CHES 2022 Beijing, China September 2022 

Jobs: 

  • ZK Jobs Board - open jobs 

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There you have it! Hope you liked this 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 differently with the format - Tweet at us! 

- Mikerah and Anna

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