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In this episode, Anna Rose and Guillermo Angeris catch up with Muthu Venkitasubramaniam, Professor of Computer Science at Georgetown University and cofounder of Ligero. They discuss how Ligero’s small memory footprint makes it a good choice for client-side proving, as well as the importance of programmable compliance in blockchain. The conversation explores the differences between ‘MPC in the head’ and error-correcting code perspectives, and how well-established primitives influence the design of modern ZK systems. They also debate the challenge of adding ‘ZK’ privacy back into systems without it, why proving EVM traces may be absurd, and what kinds of guarantees might exist around the results of vibe coding.
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- Episode 363: Bringing ZK to Google Wallet with Abhi and Matteo
- Episode 326: MPC & ZK in Ligero and Ligetron
- ZK13: Ligerito: A Small and Concretely Fast Polynomial Commitment Scheme - Kobi Gurkan
- ZK13: Vibe coding ZK Apps with Ligetron ZK Platform - Muthu Venkitasubramaniam
- ZK10: Analysis of zkVM Designs - Wei Dai & Terry Chung
- Ligerito: A Small and Concretely Fast Polynomial Commitment Scheme
- Ligero++ - Reducing proof length of Ligero
- Adding Zero-Knowledge to STARKs - Talk by Ulrich Haböck
- Aurora - comparing prover times of STARKs vs Ligero
- WYSTERIA: A Programming Language for Generic, Mixed-Mode Multiparty Computations
- Samaritan: Linear-time Prover SNARK from New Multilinear Polynomial Commitments
- Brakedown: Linear-time and field-agnostic SNARKs for R1CS
- Intro to MPC-in-the-Head
Check out the latest jobs in ZK at the ZK Podcast Jobs Board
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