SNARK Research & Pedagogy with Alessandro Chiesa

200th Episode of Zero Knowledge Podcast! This week, Anna chats with Alessandro Chiesa, a professor working on cryptography, complexity and security and one of the co-founders Zcash and StarkWare. Anna and Ale dig into some of the recent SNARK research coming out of his lab and discuss how to navigate the challenges of teaching in a space that changes quickly. Here are some links for this episode:Episode 59: STARKs & StarkWare with Eli and AlessandroEpisode 114: Exploring the Fractal transparent SNARK constructionSummer school - Foundations and Frontiers of Probabilistic Proofs (virtual)Paper - Barriers for Succinct Arguments in the Random Oracle Model by Alessandro Chiesa and Eylon Yogev Paper - Proof Carrying Data without Succinct ArgumentsPaper - A Zero Knowledge Sumcheck and its ApplicationsPaper - Bulletproofs: Short Proofs for Confidential Transactions and MoreSubquadratic SNARGs in the Random Oracle ModelPost-Quantum Succinct Arguments: Breaking the Quantum Rewinding BarrierPaper - DIZK: A Distributed Zero Knowledge Proof SystemPaper - Aurora: Transparent Succinct Arguments for R1CSAlessandro Chiesa's websiteLook out for ZK Hack kicking off October 26th — a multi-round online event with workshops and puzzle solving competitions. Sign up at: https://www.zkhack.dev/If you're in Lisbon in October for Lisbon Blockchain Week then join us for the official ZK Hack Kick-off Party!Thank you to this week’s sponsor. Centrifuge - A Real-world DeFi project. Centrifuge puts real-world assets on the blockchain, allowing issuers to get liquidity on their assets and investors to make a safe, stable yield in the volatile crypto world. They are hiring positions! Head to https://centrifuge.io/careers to learn more.If you like what we do:Subscribe to our podcast newsletter to not miss any event!Follow us on Twitter - @zeroknowledgefmJoin us on TelegramCatch us on YoutubeRead up on the r/ZKPodcast subredditGive us feedback! -https://forms.gle/iKMSrVtcAn6BByH6A Support our Gitcoin GrantSupport us on the ZKPatreonDonate through coinbase.commerce Read transcript

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