zkMesh: May 2021 recap
Welcome to zkMesh, a monthly newsletter featuring the latest in decentralised privacy-preserving technologies, privacy protocol development and zero knowledge systems research.
zkMesh is put together by Mikerah (HashCloak) and Anna (Zero Knowledge Podcast, zkSummit).
It includes links to the latest 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
Hydra: Succinct Fully Pipelineable Interactive Arguments of Knowledge by William Zhang and Yu Xia
ethSTARK Documentation – Version 1.1 by StarkWare Team
Forward-secure Multi-user Aggregate Signatures based on zk-SNARKs by Jeonghyuk Lee, Jihye Kim and Hyunok Oh
ReTRACe: Revocable and Traceable Blockchain Rewrites using Attribute-based Cryptosystems by Gaurav Panwar, Roopa Vishwanathan and Satyajayant Misra
Soft Power: Upgrading Chain Macroeconomic Policy Through Soft Forks by Dionysis Zindros
PrORAM by David Heath and Vladimir Kolesnikov
An Algebraic Framework for Universal and Updatable SNARKs by Carla Rafols and Arantxa Zapico
ZK Contingent Payments for Trained Neural Networks by Zhelei Zhou, Xinle Cao, Jian Liu, Bingsheng Zhang, and Kui Ren
ZK-PCPs from Leakage-Resilient Secret Sharing by Carmit Hazay, Muthuramakrishnan Venkitasubramaniam and Mor Weiss
Leo: A Programming Language for Formally Verified, Zero-Knowledge Applications by Collin Chin, Howard Wu, Raymond Chu, Alessandro Coglio, Eric McCarthy and Eric Smith
A Permissionless Proof-of-Stake Blockchain with Best-Possible Unpredictability (or, How to Mimic Bitcoin via Proof-of-Stake) by Lei Fan, Jonathan Katz, Phuc Thai and Hong-Sheng Zhou
Client-Auditable Verifiable Registries by Nirvan Tyagi, Ben Fisch, Joseph Bonneau and Stefano Tessaro
Introducing Guaranteed Access 2.0 (aka Chill Storage) by Omer Shlomovits
Articles
Blockchain voting is overrated among uninformed people but underrated among informed people | Vitalik Buterin
From AIRs to RAPs - how PLONK-style arithmetization works | Aztec
Bringing privacy to DeFi | Aztec | Yanay Prop
Filecoin v13 'HyperDrive' Network Upgrade Unlocks 10-25x Increase in Storage Onboarding | Filecoin
Kate commitments in ETH | g11tech
A note on bridges & layer-2 protocols | Patrick McCorry
Using MPC to Help Achieve Blockchain Privacy | Yahsin Huang
MPC vs. Multi-sig | Fireblocks
Taproot, CoinSwap, Mercury Wallet, and the Condition of BTC Privacy at 2021 | CoinNewsDaily
Privacy in Crypto Is a 'Privilege Worth Keeping': Iron Fish CEO | Decrypt | Scott Chipolina
Polygon: A Technical Overview | The Block | Arnold Toh
Videos/Podcast
zkSessions: Alex Ozdemir - The Taxonomy of Circuit Languages
zkSessions: ZK Languages showcase
STARK @ Home 20: with Madhu Sudan - A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
ZKPodcast: The dive into ZK with Iron Fish’s Elena Nadolinski
Keynote at the 4th ZKProof Workshop: Distributed Zero-Knowledge Proofs and Applications to Secure Computation | Elette Boyle
samczsun on Security in Ethereum and DeFi (Slides)
Blockchain Privacy in a TweetShell
Tools
Guides and Resources
Demystifying HybridDKG - A Distributed Key Generation Scheme | Anoma | George Gkitsas
Demystifying Aggregatable Distributed Key Generation | Anoma | George Gkitsas
Cryptography notes | Stanford | Ben Lynn
Introduction to ZKPs | Elena Nadolinski
What Is a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO)? | Decrypt | by Matt Hussey, Adriana Hamacher
A Beginner's Guide to Oasis. | Oasis Protocol Foundation
Project Updates
Ferveo: A Distributed Key Generation Scheme for Front Running Protection | Anoma | Alex Flory Samartino
Bringing privacy to DeFi | Aztec | Yanay Prop
Announcing Altair: Centrifuge's Kusama Parachain | Centrifuge | Cassidy
Announcing Dark Forest v0.6 | Dark Forest Team
Next article Hermez Network Roadmap Update | Hermez Network
Introducing Vocdoni: a decentralized governance platform for traditional organizations | Aragon | Ferran Reyes
zkSync 1.x: Swaps, NFTs, event system, and permissionless token listing | Matter Labs | astarinmymind
Loopring Subgraph + Hackathon Bounties | Loopring | Adam Browman
Donut Hardfork is Live on Celo | Celo | Joe Nyzio
Introducing Coverage Pools | Keep Network
Introducing zkDAI into the Aztec Private Rollup | Aztec | Joe Andrews
Events/Hackathons/TrustedSetups
Plumo Trusted Setup: Round 2 Starting soon
The Israel Blockchain Research Day June 6, 2021
Zcon2Lite – The Zcash Foundation June 8-9, 2021
Crypto/Applied crypto seminar is an informal series at CMU Ongoing
USENIX Security 2021 August 11-13, 2021
CFAIL The Conference for Failed Approaches and Insightful Losses in Cryptology. August 14, 2021
Crypto 2021 August 15-19, 2021 (Virtual)
IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy 2021 (EuroS&P) September 6-10, 2021
ACM Advances in Financial Technologies September 26-28, 2021.
The ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) November 14-19, 2021
Tokenomics 2021 November 18-19, 2021
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