surprised how few predictions they made this year 

https://youtu.be/jvw-keefaeE?si=QX30BUH8IzYKmDtL

hash based SNARKs vs pairing based SNARKs

https://x.com/tim_roughgarden/status/1869118870189129961?s=46

the fact that I'm a freshman to the zk space is very exciting to me

so much to learn 📖💭

today's highlight: Winterfell - a STARK prover and verifier by Meta

came across it while doing some reading on STARKs vs SNARKs

https://github.com/facebook/winterfell

awesome zk timeline of farcaster https://paragraph.xyz/@papajams.eth/farcasters-zk-anons

I attended a panel entitled: "ZKP vs TEE vs MPC"..

These things are not vs:

TEE uses ZK (zkDCAP), and ZK can leverage TEE. FHE relies on ZKP to verify encrypted computations. ZKP taps FHE for oblivious proving. MPC and ZKP are close allies, teaming up as coSnark.

All of these things are slower than we would like..

ZK in a few words https://zora.co/collect/base:0xcdf94e207c4b23c958450cdf048b7646fe503761/3?referrer=0x15caab4b9adbafb0050a8d2fa5de68cd6aebb6ee

Hello everyone! Hi all. I know what zk rollups are. To learn and further understand, I joined this group. But the further it goes, the more I don’t understand

look @slokh is on tv


https://x.com/laurashin/status/1862496672397275524?s=46

🫡

https://x.com/euler__lagrange/status/1862704889920700561?s=46

Can ZK proofs be used in a mobile app? 

Are there any apps out there that do this already?

Looking into anonymising data and feel that ZK is still in early days for mobile development 

David Wong is going to do a white board session on zkTLS 🫡

privacy

The answer to why would normies use a privacy enhancing product has been historically:

1. It’s as good as the no privacy product.
2. Somebody they care about refuses to use anything else (eg urs truly will only speak to their friends&family on Signal).

Now with advent of programmable cryptography and global scale decentralized databases the answer will simply become:

It’s better than the no privacy product due to increased competition driven by permissionless innovation with data.

Why are UTXO’s used more frequently than account models for private state? (e.g. Aztec, Penumbra, Aleo)

Have any zk devs tried using the latest ai models to write circuits? 

Mainly asking in hopes that it can accelerate the zkTLS infra buildout and get investors excited about crypto again. 🤗

Cezary

@cezaryl.eth