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Zero Knowledge — 421 episodes
Minimmit, Multimmit and the New Consensus Frontier with Patrick O'Grady
Private Information Retrieval (PIR) with Alex Hoover
Alex Ozdemir on where Theorem Provers and ZK meet
Sergey Gorbunov on TEEs and the Arc Privacy Sector
zkMesh+ Exclusive Clip – Benedikt Bünz on the threat of AI
Pushing the Limits of Proof Systems with Benedikt Bünz
Announcement: zkMesh+ Exclusive Clip – Vericoding and SMT
Building ZK-Powered AI Guardrails with Wyatt Benno
The Quantum Question Panel – Live from zkSummit14
From Access Control to Encrypted Execution with Auryn Macmillan
Quantum Advances, Hybrid Signatures and SNARKs to the Rescue with Dan Boneh
Is ZK dead? Or has it just begun? with the ZK Pod co-hosts
Verifiable Databases with Shyam & Emanuele from Provably
Dev Ojha on the Osmosis Story and his Return to Privacy
lean Ethereum Part 6: Formal Verification with Alex Hicks
lean Ethereum Part 5: Devnets & Upgrade Coordination with Will and Raúl
lean Ethereum Part 4: leanVM, a Custom VM for Signature Aggregation
lean Ethereum Part 3: Security of PQ SNARKs and an update about the Proximity Prize
lean Ethereum Part 2: PQ Signatures and Poseidon with Dmitry and Benedikt
lean Ethereum Part 1: Introduction with Justin Drake
lean Ethereum Miniseries Kick-off with Anna & Nico
Bonus: zkMesh+ & Upcoming Miniseries
Stateful ZK Identity with Ian Miers
Bonus: Join zkMesh+ for some bonus podcast content!
Sean Bowe on Tachyon and the Evolution of Zcash
Bonus: Welcome to 2026 from ZK Podcast & zkMesh+
Year in Review: ZK Podcast in 2025 & Beyond
Pratyush Mishra on Tiny Proofs, Folding, Low-Memory SNARKs and More
Lattices, Folding, & Symphony with Binyi Chen
The Quest for Practical iO with Machina iO
Countdown to Q-Day with Project 11
Kevin Lacker on AI-Assisted Theorem Proving and Acorn
Payy and Payy Card, the Undoxable Credit Card
ZKPassport, Obsidion & the Emerging Noir Ecosystem
Verifiable Key Management and TEEs with Turnkey
Zerocoin to zk-creds: Modern ZK History with Ian Miers
Evolving ZK Identity from Iden3 to Privado & Billions
Miden & the Edge Blockchain with Bobbin & Gaylord
Indistinguishability Obfuscation (iO) with Huijia (Rachel) Lin
Lighter, Perp DEXs and Custom ZK Circuits
Ethproofs, zkVM Benchmarks & the Unstoppable Rise of ZK with Justin Drake
zkPDF and zkID with Vikas Rushi and Ying Tong
How ZK inspired AI Watermarking with Miranda Christ
ZKTorch & the Evolution of ZKML with Daniel Kang
Ligero for Memory-Efficient ZK with Muthu
TLSNotary with Dan and Sinu
Local-First with grjte and Goblin Oats
Bringing ID Onchain with Self
ZK in Sui & zkAt with Kostas Kryptos
AI and ZK Auditing with David Wong
Bringing ZK to Google Wallet with Abhi and Matteo
zkTLS with Maddy from Reclaim
Implementing LatticeFold with Matthew and Albert from Nethermind
Quantum Punks with Alex and Nicola
Lattice-based ZK Systems with Vadim Lyubashevsky
Building ZK Registries Onchain with Rarimo
Quantum Engineering with Jelena Vučković
ZK Benchmarks with Conner Swann
Coordinating Provers with Norbert from ZkCloud
The Founding of Zero Knowledge Systems with Austin Hill
Making ZK More Human with ZK Email
Learning ZK with Jeffrey from RareSkills
Zero Knowledge Systems, Privacy and Security with Jonathan Wilkins
ZK in Solana with Mert Mumtaz
ZODA & The Accidental Computer
Taking ZK IRL with Cursive
Back to the Future with Zero Knowledge
ZK in Review: Decoding 2024 & Predicting 2025
Latest ZK Research with Dan Boneh
ZK Events 2024 Recap
Mastering MPC & Memes with Mikerah
Catch up with Zac and Ariel
coSNARKs with Ais and Lukas from TACEO
Is Cosmos Dead? A critical look with Zaki Manian
TEEs with Andrew Miller
On Trust Infrastructure with Arnaud Schenk
Restaking Research with Naveen & Tarun
ZK in Celestia with Connor O’Hara
Groth16, IVC and Formal Verification with Nexus
ZK Research Update with Joe Bonneau
Verifiable SQL, Reckle Trees and ZK Coprocessing with Lagrange Labs
Brussels catch up with Hart from Across
ZK Hack Montreal
Farcaster with Varun Srinivasan
Frameworks for Programmable Privacy with Ying Tong and Bryan Gillespie
Building Cryptographic Proofs from Hash Functions with Alessandro Chiesa and Eylon Yogev
ZK on Bitcoin with Alpen Labs
Proof Aggregation with Shumo and Yi from NEBRA
Bonus: ZK Hack Montreal!
MPC & ZK in Ligero and Ligetron
Web Proofs with Tracy from Pluto
Discovering New Elliptic Curves with Antonio Sanso and Youssef El Housni
The Role of Reth with Georgios
Definitions, Security and Sumcheck in ZK Systems with Justin Thaler
STIR with Gal Arnon & Giacomo Fenzi
A Deep Dive into Shared Sequencers with Espresso’s Ben Fisch
The Past & Present of the L2 Landscape with Jordi Baylina
Threshold Signature Schemes & FROST with Chelsea Komlo
Enhancing On-Chain Intelligence with Ritual
Alin Tomescu on Distributed On-chain Randomness and Keyless Accounts
ZK Hack Ecosystem & Winners of ZK Hack IV
Succinct’s Platform, Prover Network and SP1
Revisiting Hardware with Ingonyama
ZKP2P with Brian & Richard
The Launch of Celestia and Beyond
Algorithmic Game Theory & PoS Tokenomics with Noam Nisan
ZK Jargon Decoder with Nico Mohnblatt
Avail’s Approach to DA with Prabal Banerjee
The Evolution of Aleo with Howard Wu & Alex Pruden
Predictions: ZK in 2024
ZK Rewind: A Look Back at 2023
Exploring FRI, LogUp and using M31 for STARKs with Ulrich Haböck
A Dive into Binius with Ulvetanna
ZK for web2 interop with zkLogin & ZK Email
EigenLayer @ Devconnect
A ZK Podcast Retrospective
Catch up on zkSync with Alex G
Mina’s zkApps and o1js with Brandon and Steve
Quantum Cryptography Part 2 with Or Sattath
Zeth, Bonsai and RISC Zero with Brian and Jeremy
Return to MPC with Nigel Smart
Succinct Proofs and Linear Algebra with Guillermo and Alex
Exploring Security of ZK Systems with Nethermind’s Michał & Albert
State of ZK – Live at zkSummit10!
MEV, Mechanism Design & the Censorship Problem with Mallesh M Pai
Exploring, Teaching and Auditing ZK with David Wong
Penumbra Catch Up with Finch, Erwan and Jen
Quantum Cryptography with Or Sattath
Gnosis catch-up with Stefan George
Paris 2023 Recap with Uma, Zaki and Tarun
Intents with Chris Goes from Anoma
Using Formal Verification on ZK Systems with Jon Stephens
BabyAGI, Agents and Cutting-edge AI with Yohei
Error Correcting Codes & Information Theory with Ron Rothblum
Exploring Lurk: a New Language for Recursive zk-SNARKs
ProtoStar with Benedikt Bünz and Binyi Chen
Bonus: zkpod.ai & Attested Audio Experiment with Daniel Kang
Intro to zkpod.ai with Anna and Kobi
The State of ZK with Anna and Kobi
Nova and Beyond with Srinath Setty
Expanding Computation on Ethereum with Axiom
Building in Public with Sandy & Ye from Scroll
SNARKs: A Trilogy with Ariel Gabizon
History of Plonk, Noir, and the building of Aztec 3
The Move into Web3 with Aptos’ Avery Ching
Between Two ZK Events with Nico and Guillermo
FHE and ZKPs with Sunscreen’s Ravital Solomon
Auctions with Kshitij Kulkarni, Matheus V. X. Ferreira and Tarun
A Rollup-Centric Future & Sovereign Chains with Mustafa Al-Bassam
ZK Hardware Sessions with Zprize Pt. 2
ZK Hardware Sessions with Zprize Pt. 1
Where ZK and ML intersect with Yi Sun and Daniel Kang
On-Chain Reputation & Identity Building with Sismo
Cosmos, Sommelier and Emerging Assets with Zaki Manian
Ethereum’s KZG Ceremony with Trent & Carl
Proofs, Arguments, and ZKPs with Justin Thaler
ZK in 2023 with Kobi, Guillermo, and Tarun
Bonus: Apply to zkSummit 9
2022 End of Year Wrap with Co-Hosts
Ultrasound Money & VRFs with Justin Drake
Proof of Solvency with Kostas Chalkias
New ZK Use Cases with Dan Boneh
Verifying Consensus On-Chain with Succinct
Matt Green on bringing ZK into the wild and the compliance debate
A look into Namada and Anoma with Awa Sun Yin
From Wireless to Blockchains with Pramod Viswanath
Exploring RISC Zero with Brian Retford and Jeremy Bruestle
What’s the Deal with Hash Functions?
Impact of Tornado Cash: a Builders Perspective
Revisiting FHE with Rand Hindi from Zama
Exploring Penumbra with Henry de Valence
Adversarial Machine Learning Research with Florian Tramèr
Sanctions against Tornado Cash: a Legal Perspective
Journey to Blockchain with David Tse
Dive Back into MEV with Alex Stokes and Chris Hager
Halo 2 with Daira Hopwood and Str4d
Deconstructing Bridges with Vaibhav Chellani
Composable Privacy with Manta Network
IST and Designing Stablecoins in Cosmos
Bonus: Apply to zkSummit 8
Aurora and Near with Alex and Illia
Exploring ZK Research with Jens Groth
Aztec Connect and Private DeFi with Charlie and Joe
Mathematical Journeys & Sake with Guillermo Angeris
zkEVM with Scroll’s Ye Zhang and Haichen Shen
Through the Wormhole with Jump Crypto
Cutting Edge ZK Research with Mary Maller
Argent’s Smart Contract Wallet Design with Julien Niset
Designing Optimistic Interoperability with Nomad
Going Cross-Chain with Polkadot’s XCM
Catch-up at DevConnect AMS with Tarun, Guillermo and Brendan
Move & Sui with Sam Blackshear from Mysten Labs
Interoperability with Sergey Gorbunov from Axelar
Dark Forest and 0xPARC with Gubsheep
Bonus: Jump into ZK
Foundry with Georgios Konstantopoulous
Connecting Cosmos and Ethereum with Gravity Bridge
Something Brewing with Jill Gunter and Ben Fisch from Espresso Systems
Funding the Next Wave of Zero Knowledge Tech
The Road to Plonky2 with Brendan and Daniel from Polygon Zero
Scaling Ethereum with Polygon’s Mihailo Bjelic
Hardened JS and the Architecture of Agoric with Dean Tribble
Information Theory & Blockchain with Sreeram Kannan
A Dip into the Mempool & MEV with Project Blanc
Charting Zodiac & DAOs with Nathan Ginnever and Auryn Macmillan
Emin Gün Sirer on Avalanche and its Formation
zk-SNARKs meets Optimistic Rollup with Zkopru
2021 to 2022 with Co-hosts and Friends
Bonus ZK Hack Wrap with Kobi!
It’s a wrap! ZK Hack Takeaways & What’s Next!
The Road to STARKs and Miden with Bobbin Threadbare
Liquid Staking with Lido and Chorus One
Digging into Data Availability with Ismail Khoffi from Celestia
Journey Through the Cosmos Ecosystem with Billy Rennekamp
Distilling DeFi Primitives with Guillermo, Alex and Tarun
Curating JPEGs with JPG
Keeping Up with the Kusama Network
MPC and DAGs with Aleph Zero’s Adam Gagol & Matthew Niemerg
Stateless Ethereum & Verkle Tries with Dankrad Feist
DeFi’s Multichain Future with Zaki Manian from Sommelier
SNARK Research & Pedagogy with Alessandro Chiesa
Snapps on Mina with Emre and Izaak
NFT Creation, Curation and Governance with Luiz from FingerprintsDAO
WalletConnect & the DApp/Wallet connection with Pedro Gomes
Mixnets, Activism and Privacy with Nym’s Harry Halpin
Sushi Beyond the Fork with Joseph Delong
zkEVM with Jordi & David from Hermez
Zero Knowledge Podcast (finally) has a real website!
The Early Days of Cosmos, Chorus One & Epicenter with Brian Crain
The Evolution of Yearn with Tracheopteryx and Facu
ZKPs & the Dichotomy of Privacy vs Transparency with Josh & Jill
The Why & How of Privacy for DAOs
Digging into Mining with Kristy-Leigh Minehan
Analyzing Osmosis & Preventing MEV with Sunny and Dev
The Evolution of ETH 2.0 with Teku’s Ben Edgington
ZKPs for Spam Protection & Decentralized Messaging with Status
Exploring Uniswap V3 and a Multi-L2 Future with Noah and Moody
Anoma’s Adrian Brink on Validity Predicates, Ferveo DKG & More
CowSwap & DAO Tech with Gnosis’s Martin Köppelmann
The dive into ZK with Iron Fish’s Elena Nadolinski
Aping into DeFi and NFTs with Andy Chorlian and Tarun Chitra
dYdX’s Antonio Juliano on using STARKs for scalability
Diving into Arbitrum’s Optimistic Rollup
Exploring SNARKs for Sidechains with Alberto from Horizen
Unwrapping Optimism with Ben and Mark
Zk-zk-rollup & zk.money with Zac and Joe from Aztec
zkEVM & zkPorter with Matter Labs
Through the Cosmos Stargate Upgrade
Building Private AMMs with Guillermo Angeris
ZK languages with Alex Ozdemir
Mapping the Polkadot Ecosystem
Hardware for ZKPs & VDFs with Supranational
Arkworks SNARK libraries with Pratyush Mishra
Flashbots with Phil Daian and Stephane Gosselin
Where Media & Music meet NFTs & Blockchain
Coin Center’s Peter Van Valkenburgh on regulation & crypto
Aave with Stani Kulechov
The road to Skynet & beyond with David Vorick
Kicking off 2021 with Anna, Tarun, James & Josh
Year end and end of an era with Anna & Fredrik
Loopring with Matt & Brecht
DAppNode & the ETH2 kick off with Eduardo Antuña Díez
MACI with Koh Wei Jie
Threshold Cryptography with Omer Shlomovits from ZenGo
Illia Polosukhin on the development and launch of NEAR protocol
Stateless Validation with Alin Tomescu
Testing PoW Consensus Algorithm Security with Ren Zhang from Nervos
ZK for authentication with Nolan and Locke from NuID
Monsters in the Mempool with Dan Robinson from Paradigm
Blockchain analytics with Alex Svanevik from Nansen
John Adler on Optimistic vs ZK Rollup and the data availability problem
NFTs & Rarible with Alex Salnikov
CryptoKitties, Dapper Labs and Flow with Dieter Shirley
Sushiswap Bonus Chat
A Tale of Sushi(Swap) with Tarun, Hasu and Anna – Part1
Oasis Labs & Privacy with Vishwanath Raman
Catch up with Anna & Fredrik
Circom & Hermez with Jordi Baylina
Aleo with Howard Wu
Josh Cincinnati on Zcash, governance and leaving the Zcash Foundation
Hasu & Georgios on Bitcoin Security & Elastic Block Size Proposals
ZK & Games: Dark Forest with Brian Gu
Staking derivatives & DeFi with Alex Evans (and Tarun!)
Findora with Benedikt Bunz and Ben Fisch
Validium with DeversiFi & Starkware
Trusted Setup Bonus: Tornado Cash
Math competitions, crypto as alchemy & Gasper with Yan Zhang
Look into Solana
tBTC with Matt Luongo
Trusted Setup Ceremonies Explored
Handshake Protocol with Mark Tyneway
Proof of Necessary Work with Akis Kattis (NYU)
Exploring Tezos & their recent Sapling integration
IPFS 0.5 with Molly Mackinlay from Protocol Labs
DP-3T & Contact Tracing with Kenny Paterson from ETH Zurich
Consensus Algorithms & HotStuff with Ittai Abraham
Crypto libraries, Zcash's Zebra and contact tracing with Henry de Valence
Mixnets and privacy technology with Claudia Diaz from Nym
Exploring FHE with Flavio Bergamaschi from IBM Research
Halo with Sean Bowe and Daira Hopwood from ECC
ZKPs, Audits & Security with Benjamin Perez from Trail of Bits
Urbit with Galen Wolf-Pauly from Tlon
ZKPs in Ethereum with Vitalik Buterin & Justin Drake
Alistair and Jeff from Web3 on ZKPs & more
Tarun and James talk Flash Loans & more
Isogenies with Luca De Feo
zkSync and Redshift: Matter Labs update
Cosmos, IBC and ZKPs with Chris Goes
Exploring the Fractal transparent SNARK construction
Latest recursive SNARKitecture with Izaak Meckler from O(1)Labs
Dive into Plonk!
Mixers with Tornado.cash
So long 2019! What's next?
Exploring use-cases for zkps and zk standards with QEDIT
Catch up with Zaki Manian from Tendermint
Centrifuge and zkSNARKs in action with Lucas Vogelsang
IPFS, Libp2p & Filecoin with Juan Benet
Alan Szepieniec on Hash Functions & Supersonic SNARKs
Exploring Kusama, the Canary Chaos Network
Exploring VDFs with Joseph Bonneau
Mapping the Web3 stack with The Graph
TEEs with Yan Michalevsky from Anjuna
Dan Boneh on the past, present & future of cryptography
Post-Devcon5 catch-up with Tarun, James & Georgios
MimbleWimble pt 2: Beam Protocol
MimbleWimble pt 1: Grin with Daniel Lehnberg
Eli Ben-Sasson on the latest from StarkWare and the origin of mathematical ideas
zkVM with Oleg Andreev
Gnosis & Full Node with Friederike Ernst
Light clients & ZKPs with Celo
Jorge Izquierdo talks Aragon and DAOs
Near Protocol's focus on UX
MPC systems with Nigel Smart
Eth2.0 update and a look at Libra with Raul Jordan
Accumulators with Ben Fisch
The road to DEXs with Will Harborne
Ariel Gabizon on his work with zkSNARKs and the beauty of math
Zexe: Decentralized Private Computation with Pratyush Mishra
Zcash community & more with Amber Baldet
From Warp Sync to SPREE with Polkadot's Rob Habermeier
TEEs, SGX and the Graphene project
P2P Messaging & Scuttlebutt with Dominic Tarr
On the Frontiers of Validation with Bison Trails
Privacy & P4 with Liz and Chris from Least Authority
Diving into Cosmos with Sunny
Funding Blockchain Development with Kevin Owocki
Sean Bowe on SNARKs, Trusted Setups & Elliptic Curve Cryptography
Exploring Aztec with Zac Williamson
Blockchain 101: Randomness and Random Beacons with Justin Drake
J. Ayo Akinyele Talks Lightning Network & Building Bolt
zkSNARKs for Scale with Matter Labs
Getting Radicle with Julian Arni
Digging into DAI with Rune Christensen from Maker
Decentralised Storage with Arweave
Conversations at EthCC
Formal Verification with Martin Lundfall
ETH2.0 Update With Danny Ryan
Bridges, xDai and Burner Wallets with Igor & Austin
Unleashing Melon into the wild with Jenna Zenk
Proxy re-encryption and FHE with NuCypher
The path to an ERC standard
Statistical modeling of PoS systems with Tarun Chitra
Cryptography 101: Multi-Party Computations
STARKs & StarkWare with Eli and Alessandro
Kicking off 2019 with Jutta Steiner
Merklize this! Merkle Trees & Patricia Tries
Get to know a Core Dev: Martin Holst Swende
ETHSingapore in review
Digging into recursive zkSNARKs with Coda
Get to know a Core Dev: Péter Szilágyi
Vlad and Gav go head-to-head on blockchain governance
Exploring Spacemesh with Julian Loss
Zooko talks Zcash on our 50th episode
Blockchain 101: Cryptoeconomic Primitives and Staking
Talking UX with Taylor Monahan of MyCrypto
Chat with Richard Craib from Numerai
Gavin Wood on Polkadot, Sharding and Substrate
P2P messaging with Henri from Streamr
Blockchain 101: Transaction lifecycle & the mempool
Hudson Jameson talks EIPs and Ethereum core decision-making
ETHPrize & Open Source Block Explorers
Zokrates with Jacob Eberhardt
Benedikt Bünz on Bulletproofs and Verifiable Delay Functions
Matthew Di Ferrante on the security of blockchain clients
Intro to zkSNARKs with Howard Wu
Sharding Update With Prysmatic Labs
Eric Tang of Livepeer talks off-chain computation
Testnets with Ethan from Tendermint
Blockchain 101: What are smart contracts?
Open Source Incentivization and Sustainability with OSCoin
Zero Knowledge at Zcon0!
Blockchain 101: Blocks & Block Headers
Open Organizations & Governance with Colony
The DAO, the white hat hacker group & Giveth with Griff
ETHBuenosAires in review
Zeppelin and a chat about upgradability
What and why of eWasm with Lane and Alex
Storage rent with Phil Daian
Blockchain UX and the UXUnConf
Blockchain 101: get your full node running!
Developer Education in Blockchain
Introduction to Zero Knowledge Proofs
Ecosystem development with Jon Choi of Ethereum Foundation
ZK Summit, sharding, testnets and ASIC resistance
Discussing Plasma and Storage Rent with Karl Floersch and Phil Daian
Talking security with JP Smith from Trail of Bits
Chatting about consensus algorithms with Robert Habermeier
Diving deep into DFINITY
Bloom filters, PoA and what's up with ERP?
How to become a blockchain developer? We ask Gavin Wood
Pragma's new tools and staying agile in blockchain
Blockchain, Open-Source & Security
Bootnodes, Databases and News
Decentralized Storage Part 2: Solutions
Decentralized Storage Part 1: Looking back
s/2017/2018: our New Year's Podcast
A fireside chat with a couple Parity peeps
Dapps and Kitties
Hard Forks
PoW, what is it and why do we want PoS
RustFest 2017 in Review