Ligero for Memory-Efficient ZK with Muthu

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.   Related Links Episode 363: Bringing ZK to Google Wallet with Abhi and MatteoEpisode 326: MPC & ZK in Ligero and LigetronZK13: Ligerito: A Small and Concretely Fast Polynomial Commitment Scheme - Kobi GurkanZK13: 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 SchemeLigero++ - Reducing proof length of LigeroAdding Zero-Knowledge to STARKs - Talk by Ulrich HaböckAurora - comparing prover times of STARKs vs LigeroWYSTERIA: A Programming Language for Generic, Mixed-Mode Multiparty ComputationsSamaritan: Linear-time Prover SNARK from New Multilinear Polynomial CommitmentsBrakedown: Linear-time and field-agnostic SNARKs for R1CSIntro to MPC-in-the-Head     Check out the latest jobs in ZK at the ZK Podcast Jobs Board     **If you like what we do:** * Find all our links here! @ZeroKnowledge | Linktree * Subscribe to our podcast newsletter * Follow us on Twitter @zeroknowledgefm * Join us on Telegram * Catch us on YouTube   **Support the show:** * Patreon * ETH - Donation address * BTC - Donation address * SOL - Donation address * ZEC - Donation address Read transcript