Zokrates with Jacob Eberhardt
In this episode, we had a chance to speak with Jacob Eberhardt about his work on Zokrates and the Zero Knowledge Proof Toolkit. Zokrates is a programming language & toolbox for zkSNARKS on Ethereum No...
5 Sep 201850min
Benedikt Bünz on Bulletproofs and Verifiable Delay Functions
In this episode, we speak to Benedikt Bünz, the author of Bulletproofs, about this novel zero knowledge proof system as well as about Verifiable Delay Functions.This is part of our Zero Knowledge Seri...
29 Aug 201859min
Matthew Di Ferrante on the security of blockchain clients
In this episode, we speak with Matthew Di Ferrante of the smart contract auditing firm Zero Knowledge Labs about security in the blockchain. Specifically we discuss how he first got interested in secu...
22 Aug 201854min
Intro to zkSNARKs with Howard Wu
In this episode, we sit down with Howard Wu to explore zkSNARKs, the challenges in the application of this awesome technology, the new ideas emerging for how to scale them and his latest work on DIZK....
15 Aug 201855min
Sharding Update With Prysmatic Labs
In this episode, we sit down with Raul & Preston from Prysmatic Labs to discuss sharding, the evolution of the spec, Ethereum 2.0, what happens to a side chain during a hard fork, and whats coming up ...
8 Aug 201855min
Eric Tang of Livepeer talks off-chain computation
In this episode, we speak with Eric Tang from Livepeer about the need for off-chain computation, what scenarios make sense for off-chain and which can work on-chain, how Livepeer sees its role in the ...
1 Aug 201850min
Testnets with Ethan from Tendermint
In this episode, we sit down with Ethan (Bucky) Buchman, co-founder & CTO of Tendermint, to talk about testnets. We look into what they are, what purpose they serve and cover examples from Bitcoin, Et...
25 Jul 201847min
Blockchain 101: What are smart contracts?
In this episode, we dig into what the term smart contract means with our guest James Prestwich. First introduced in 1994 by Nick Szabo, smart contracts have inspired whole ecosystems of companies and ...
18 Jul 201843min
