Kurt Pan

@kurtpan.eth

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The Chinese version of Justin Thalar’s ZK-bible “Proofs, Arguments, and Zero Knowledge” https://people.cs.georgetown.edu/jthaler/ProofsArgsAndZK.html is finally published! 🎉

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created a starter pack for folks building in ZK or programable cryptography please let me if i missed someone https://warpcast.com/avichalp/pack/Builders-in-ZK-xt018x

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It was great to find a wild @vitalik.eth who even also listened to my 1h long talk (about Circle STARK)! For me, it felt like meeting a legendary figure who can only appeared in some textbook. Only after being dazzled, I realized that we are actually at the same age and belongs to the same generation. So nice to meet you, my friend!😀

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I feel like off-chain ZK applications are really undervaluing the potential of just using STARKs, including for privacy-demanding use cases. These days a STARK is < 100 kB, for off-chain use cases that amount of bandwidth is utterly trivial compared to the client-side prover time savings that come from using STARKs.

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https://github.com/gy001/finitefields-by-examples

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https://hash-based-snargs-book.github.io/

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Glad to hear that the other bro&sis in the morphism family are still intact: isomorphism/monomorphism/epimorphism/endomorphism/automorphism…

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new zk protocol to verify regular expressions efficiently with proof size ~ 100kb https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1886

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Progress on JOLT continues (we're near the finish line) and Justin Thaler from our research team published this technical FAQ on recent changes in SNARK design. https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/a-technical-faq-on-lasso-jolt-and-recent-advancements-in-snark-design/

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For i^i, we take the process of rotating from 1 to i, and rotate *that* 90 degrees. And that means the growth process is instead... going straight toward zero! How far toward zero? The (canonical) value of i^i is equivalent to e^(-pi/2) ≈ 0.208

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Recommend this classic “unusual” book about this topic: Visual Complex Analysis , by Dr. Tristan Needham.

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ZK Research Highlights (October 2023) https://arc.net/folder/CCAD7ECE-1835-492C-A88A-4F10E5382C71 (You can also subscribe via email here: https://zk.cryptography.land/)

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The hybrid-plasma stuff is really underexplored imo!

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https://www.gevulot.com/

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fb3YJ7A5qH4

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People live in totalitarian states have a tendency to eventually learn to self-censored and become increasingly unwilling to express themselves. I need to work hard to resist this tendency.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKOPy4yPZyQ

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Hello Yi. Just translate the halo2-repl post into Chinese :) https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/vKUugjydr2yjKHx12kzQuA

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCEg61ExwK4

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