Varun Thakore (varunthakore)

Excited to share that my master’s thesis work — "MProve-Nova: A Privacy-Preserving Proof of Reserves Protocol for Monero" — has been accepted at PETS 2025. This is joint work with my thesis advisor, Prof. Saravanan Vijayakumaran (@sarva.eth).

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Huge thanks to Prof. Saravanan Vijayakumaran (@sarva.eth) for his guidance and mentorship. He’s a fantastic advisor and amazing to work with. He currently has some openings, and I highly recommend applying if you’re interested: https://www.ee.iitb.ac.in/~sarva/openings/

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A Proof of Reserves (PoR) protocol allows an exchange to prove ownership of a certain amount of cryptocurrency on the blockchain. It is sometimes also referred to as Proof of Assets.

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Read the first part here 👉 https://www.zksecurity.xyz/blog/posts/circle-starks-1/

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