zkMesh

Share this post

zkMesh: Dec recap & 2020 wrap up!

zkmesh.substack.com

Discover more from zkMesh

A monthly newsletter sharing the latest in decentralised privacy-preserving technologies, privacy protocol development and Zero Knowledge systems
Over 3,000 subscribers
Continue reading
Sign in

zkMesh: Dec recap & 2020 wrap up!

Anna R
Jan 5, 2021
Share this post

zkMesh: Dec recap & 2020 wrap up!

zkmesh.substack.com
Share

Welcome to the 12th edition of the zkMesh - a monthly newsletter about the latest in decentralised privacy-preserving technologies, privacy protocol development and zero knowledge systems research.

This past year, Mikerah (HashCloak) and Anna (Zero Knowledge Podcast, zkSummit) have released a monthly zkMesh covering the latest research, useful articles, videos, podcasts, tweets, tools, project updates and events.

As readers of the zkMesh, we would love to hear from you what you liked about the zkMesh and what you think we could do better this year - Please help us by filling out this form!

Expect a new edition at the beginning of every month and be sure to subscribe!  

——

Also quick note to readers: Mikerah’s HashCloak is offering free 30 min consultation slots for anyone in need of more guidance around privacy-preserving tech and blockchains. You can schedule a time here.

——

Research

  • On the Security of Homomorphic Encryption on Approximate Numbers by Baiyu Li and Daniele Micciancio

  • Zero-Knowledge Succinct Arguments with a Linear-Time Prover by Jonathan Bootle and Alessandro Chiesa and Siqi Liu

  • How to compute all Pointproofs by Alin Tomescu

  • Flexible and Efficient Verifiable Computation on Encrypted Data by Alexandre Bois and Ignacio Cascudo and Dario Fiore and Dongwoo Kim

  • Oblivious Pseudorandom Functions from Isogenies by Dan Boneh and Dmitry Kogan and Katharine Woo

  • A Framework of Private Set Intersection Protocols by Ziyuan Liang and Weiran Liu and Fan Zhang and Bingsheng Zhang and Jian Liu and Lei Zhang and Kui Ren

  • Achieving privacy and accountability in traceable digital currency by Amira Barki and Aline Gouget

  • Efficient Verifiable Image Redacting based on zk-SNARKs by Hankyung Ko and Ingeun Lee and Seunghwa Lee and Jihye Kim and Hyunok Oh

  • Unifying Compilers for SNARKs, SMT, and More by Alex Ozdemir and Fraser Brown and Riad S. Wahby

  • Halo Infinite: Recursive zk-SNARKs from any Additive Polynomial Commitment Scheme by Dan Boneh and Justin Drake and Ben Fisch and Ariel Gabizon

  • Halo 0.9: An Halo Protocol with Fully-Succinctness by Lira Wang - SECBIT Labs

  • Proof-Carrying Data without Succinct Arguments by Benedikt Bünz and Alessandro Chiesa and William Lin and Pratyush Mishra and Nicholas Spooner

  • Aggregatable Distributed Key Generation by Kobi Gurkan and Philipp Jovanovic and Mary Maller and Sarah Meiklejohn and Gilad Stern and Alin Tomescu

Articles

  • A Simple and Succinct Zero Knowledge Proof - Ittai Abraham, Alin Tomescu

  • Multi-asset shielded pool project (MASP) - Metastate Team

  • Reverie: An optimized zero-knowledge proof system - Ben Perez (Trail of Bits)

  • How Zero Knowledge is Rebalancing the Scales of the Internet - Alex Pruden (Aleo)

  • Explain Like I'm Not a Developer: Taproot Privacy

  • Privacy Advocates React to Proposed FinCEN Rules - Decrypt

  • Tezos Will Get Zcash's Privacy Features in Next Upgrade  - Decrypt

  • Bittrex To Delist Privacy Coins Monero, ZCash and Dash in Two Weeks  - Decrypt

  • https://www.coindesk.com/why-ledger-kept-all-that-customer-data-in-the-first-place - Coindesk

  • Ethereum mixer Tornado Cash's privacy pool value reaches all-time high for 2020 - Coindesk

  • Privacy wallets are becoming a more frequent tool for criminals to launder bitcoin, says Elliptic - Coindesk

  • An Incomplete Guide to Rollups - Vitalik Buterin

Videos/Podcast: 

  • All zkSummit6 videos → HERE

  • Efficient Fully Secure Computation via Distributed Zero-Knowledge Proofs by Elette Boyle, Niv Gilboa, Yuval Ishai, Ariel Nof 

  • Game-Theoretically Secure Protocols Inspired by Blockchains by Elaine Shi (Cornell University) 

  • Finding exploits and saving people's money w/ samczsun

  • Zero Knowledge Podcast - Ep 159: MACI with Koh Wei Jie

  • Zero Knowledge Podcast - Ep 161: Loopring with Matt & Brecht

  • Zero knowledge proofs (ZK proofs) – Eli Ben Sasson (Starkware)

  • Reading "SQISign: compact post-quantum signatures from quaternions and isogenies" by Deirdre Connolly

Blockchain Privacy in a TweetShell

Twitter avatar for @chris_belcher_
belcher @chris_belcher_
A big day for bitcoin privacy and fungibility, the first ever multi-transaction CoinSwap on bitcoin testnet. Thread 👇
2:53 PM ∙ Dec 8, 2020
826Likes198Retweets
Twitter avatar for @zkproofs
Pratyush Mishra @zkproofs
Excited that our new paper on more efficient recursive proofs is out! eprint.iacr.org/2020/1618 TL;DR: Incrementally verifiable computation from a very simple, *non-succinct* argument for R1CS Joint work with @benediktbuenz, Alessandro Chiesa, William Lin, and @_nickspoon
eprint.iacr.orgCryptology ePrint Archive: Report 2020/1618 - Proof-Carrying Data without Succinct Arguments
12:04 AM ∙ Jan 1, 2021
75Likes27Retweets
Twitter avatar for @SamouraiWallet
Samourai Wallet @SamouraiWallet
Our latest research report by @ErgoBTC and @LaurentMT is now live on OXT Research. We follow the trail of the 1,000 BTC stolen in the recent @kucoincom theft. We track the coins as they are pushed through a complicated scheme of multiple mixers research.oxt.me/china-and-nort…
Image
10:35 PM ∙ Dec 15, 2020
179Likes57Retweets

Tools 

  • Plonkit: A DSL toolkit for PLONK using bellman and circom

  • Aggregatable DKG and VUF

  • Cairo: Welcome On Board. | StarkWare

Guides and Resources

  • Code Spotlight: the Reference Implementation of Ed25519 (Part 1)

  • A Tutorial on the Implementation of Block Ciphers: Software and Hardware Applications

  • CS294 - Foundations of Probabilistic Proofs

  • Bitcoin designed

  • ‘This Month in Bitcoin Privacy’ newsletter

Attacks and Vulnerabilities

A Brief Breakdown of Monero's Ongoing Network Attacks by Seth Simmons

Project Updates

  • PLONK Benchmarks — 2.5x faster than Groth16 on MiMC - Thomas Walton-Pocock - Aztec

  • Loopring's zkRollup AMM is Live by Daniel Wang - Daniel Wang - Loopring

  • Multi-asset shielded pool project (MASP) - Metastate Team 

  • (Why) Bringing Privacy to Smart Contracts is Non-trivial - Ravital Solomon - Nucypher

  • StarkEx 2.0 is Now Live on Mainnet! - StarkWare

  • The Zcash Foundation Would Like to Grow User Adoption - Zcash Foundation Team

  • Bulletproofs+ in Monero

  • Drivechain Releases

  • [Farcaster] Atomic-swap community update December - Monero

  • Ring Signatures over Taproot Outputs PoC - Jonas Nick

Events/Hackathons

  • Privacy Enhancing Technologies in Practice - Series of Short Workshops - Ongoing

  • #CryptoHackathon Functional Encryption Hackathon: Challenges, Applications and Use Cases -Jan 8-15 2021 in conjunction with RWC (11th-13th Jan)

  • De·crypto: decentralized academic research group towards digital democracy - Jan 20 + Jan 27 2021

  • The 4TH ZKPROOF workshop Home edition: April 19 - 29 2021, Call For Papers are open now

  • The 11th BIU Winter School on Cryptography February 14-17, 2021

Jobs: 

  • Zero Knowledge Podcast is looking for a part-time Event Manager. Role would begin January 2021. Experience hosting online events and some knowledge of blockchain/zero knowledge community is a must. Get in touch with zkPodcast at hello[at]zeroknowledge.fm

Note: If you have an open job position and would like to have us include it in our next edition get in touch!

————

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

Share this post

zkMesh: Dec recap & 2020 wrap up!

zkmesh.substack.com
Share
Comments
Top
New
Community

No posts

Ready for more?

© 2023 zkMesh
Privacy ∙ Terms ∙ Collection notice
Start WritingGet the app
Substack is the home for great writing