zkMesh: Sept 2021 recap
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
Bandersnatch: a fast elliptic curve built over the BLS12-381 scalar field by Simon Masson and Antonio Sanso and Zhenfei Zhang
fflonk: a Fast-Fourier inspired verifier efficient version of PlonK by Ariel Gabizon and Zachary J. Williamson
Lelantus Spark: Secure and Flexible Private Transactions by Aram Jivanyan and Aaron Feickert
Efficient Perfectly Secure Computation with Optimal Resilience by Ittai Abraham and Gilad Asharov and Avishay Yanai
Non-Interactive Differentially Anonymous Router by Benedikt Bünz and Yuncong Hu and Shin’ichiro Matsuo and Elaine Shi
The Latus PCD scheme based on Marlin by Ulrich Haböck, Alberto Di Garoffolo, Daniele Benedetto
Simple and Efficient Batch Verification Techniques for Verifiable Delay Functions by Lior Rotem
What’s in Your Wallet? Privacy and Security Issues in Web 3.0 by Philipp Winter, Anna Harbluk Lorimer, Peter Snyder, and Benjamin Livshits
Towards Private On-Chain Algorithmic Trading by Ceren Kocaoğullar, Arthur Gervais, Benjamin Livshits
Pinpointing and Measuring Wasabi and Samourai CoinJoins in the Bitcoin Ecosystem by Johann Stockinger, Bernhard Haslhofer, Pedro Moreno-Sanchez, and Matteo Maffei
Oblivious Message Retrieval by Zeyu Liu and Eran Tromer
What's New in Concrete by Ilaria Chillotti, Ben Curtis, and Damien Ligier
A verified algebraic representation of Cairo program execution by Jeremy Avigad, Lior Goldberg, David Levit, Yoav Seginer, Alon Titelman
Proofs of Custody by Dankrad Feist
Feist-Khovratovich technique for computing KZG proofs fast by Alin Tomescu
Articles
Crypto Guru Pleads Guilty to Advising North Korea on Blockchain Technology | James Fanelli | WSJ
Heterogeneous Paxos and Multi-Chain Atomic Commits | Isaac Sheff | Anoma Blog
(Almost) Everything you need to know about Optimistic Rollup | Georgios Konstantopoulos | Paradigm Research
Polygon Integrates Mina Protocol, Bringing Privacy to Ethereum Scaling Solution | Liam J. Kelly |
New Bitcoin Core Release Adds Taproot: What You Need to Know | Andrew Asmakov | Decrypt
Regulatory and privacy concerns trail SEC’s threat to Coinbase | Osato Avan-Nomayo | Cointelegraph
Red Flags for Smart Contract Pyramid Schemes in 2021 | Osato Avan-Nomayo | IC3
Leaked Slides Show How Chainalysis Flags Crypto Suspects for Cops | Danny Nelson, Marc Hochstein | Coindesk
Videos/Podcast
Brian Gu | Six ZK Application Ideas | Taipei Ethereum Meetup
Er-Cheng | Recursive Proof Composition | Taipei Ethereum Meetup
Ya-wen Jeng | Introduction of Unirep | Taipei Ethereum Meetup
A Survey of Rational Proofs - Rosario Gennaro | Protocol Labs
Episode 196: Mixnets, Activism and Privacy with Nym's Harry Halpin | ZK Podcast
Halo Infinite: Proof-Carrying Data from Additive Polynomial Commitments | Ben Fisch
zkStudyClub: Differential Privacy in Constant Function Market Makers | Tarun Chitra, Alex Evans, Guillermo Angeris
Episode 199: Snapps on Mina with Emre and Izaak | ZK Podcast
ZK in a TweetShell
Vulnerabilities
Vulnerabilities patched in Aztec 2.0 | by Zac | Aztec Network | Sep, 2021
A 23.7 million dollar Ethereum transaction fee post mortem | Konrad Strachan | DeversiFi
Guides and Resources
Tools
Project Updates
Panther and NEAR Protocol Announce Partnership To Develop Privacy-Preserving Tech in the NEAR Ecosystem | Dailyhodl
Enabling N-party transactions with Anoma's state machine | Gabriella Wong | Anoma
Interoperability on Anoma | Alex Flory Samartino | Anoma
Dark Forest v0.6 Round 3 Wrapup | Dark Forest Team
Dark Forest v0.6 Round 4: Society Eggnog | Dark Forest Team
Firo Dev Update - September 2021 | Reuben Yap | Firo
Explaining Polygon Hermez | Polygon Hermez
Revealing the Secret Network Ecosystem Roadmap! - Bringing Privacy to Smart Contracts and Public Blockchains | Secret Network
StarkNet Alpha 2. New Phase: Composability | StarkWare
Tornado.Cash Deployment Proposal On Avalanche | Tornado Cash
New Community Programs: Grants, Community Spark Leaderboard, Mina Academy, and Mina Achievements Program | Mina Foundation
Events/Hackathons/TrustedSetups
TOKEN2049 London. Oct 7-8, 2021
ZK HACK a 7-week virtual event featuring weekly workshops and advanced puzzle solving competitions. Online. Oct 26 - Dec 7, 2021
LisCon Lisbon. Oct 20-21, 2021
ETHLisbon Lisbon. Oct 22-24, 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 Online. March 1-5, 2022
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