zkMesh: May 2020 Edition
Welcome to zkMesh - a monthly newsletter focused on decentralised privacy-preserving technologies, privacy protocol development and zero knowledge systems research.
We cover the latest research, useful articles, videos, podcasts, tweets, tools, and project updates.
zkMesh is put together by Mikerah (HashCloak) and Anna (Zero Knowledge Podcast).
Expect a new edition at the beginning of every month and be sure to subscribe!
Research
Aggregatable Subvector Commitments for Stateless Cryptocurrencies by Alin Tomescu, Ittai Abraham, Vitalik Buterin, Justin Drake, Dankrad Feist, Dmitry Khovratovich
The Halo Effect by Ariel Gabizon
SuperMarlin: Adding Transparency to Marlin using 1k lines of code by Omer Shlomovits
Improving Stealth Addresses by Vitalik Buterin
Promixity Gaps for Reed-Solomon Codes by Eli Ben-Sasson, Dan Carmon, Yuval Ishai, Swastik Kopparty, Shubhangi Saraf Eli Ben-Sasson
BLS12 Curve over a Halo cycle by Daira Hopwood
Blockchain is Watching You: Profiling and Deanonymizing Ethereum Users by Ferenc Béres, István András Seres, András A. Benczúr, Mikerah Quintyne-Collins
Design for a CoinSwap Implementation for Massively Improving Bitcoin Privacy and Fungibility by Chris Belcher
Articles
Aggregatable Subvector Commitments for Stateless Cryptocurrencies (from Lagrange polynomials) by Alin Tomescu
Privacy Infrastructure for the Public Good on the Zcash Foundation Blog
Reinventing Vulnerability Disclosure using Zero-knowledge Proofs as part of the DARPA program Securing Information for Encrypted Verification and Evaluation (SIEVE) on the Trail of Bits Blog
Ethereum’s coin mixing service Tornado Cash is now permissionless - as per this Coindesk article
Videos/Podcast:
zkStudyClub: Aggregatable Subvector Commitments with Alin Tomescu (VMWare Research)
Deep FRI Dive - STARK @ Home Part VI with Eli Ben-Sasson (Starkware)
The Cambrian Explosion of Crypto Proofs with Eli Ben-Sasson (Starkware)
Exploring Tezos & their recent Sapling integration on zkPodcast
Proof of Necessary Work with Akis Kattis (NYU) on zkPodcast
Minimum Anti-Collusion Infrastructure (MACI)Tutorial with Wei Jie Koh (EF)
Blockchain Privacy in a TweetShell
Guides and Resources
https://github.com/alinush/asvc-zkstudyclub-talk
Project Updates
Centrifuge: the Decentralized Asset Financing Protocol launches!
Starkware teams up with the Immutable team, creators of Gods Unchained
Tornado Cash wraps up largest Trusted Setup to date: 1114 Contributions
QEDIT-Powered Blockchains Can Set the Privacy Standard for CBDC Transactions
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