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Zero Knowledge — 411 episodes

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Quantum Advances, Hybrid Signatures and SNARKs to the Rescue with Dan Boneh

2

Is ZK dead? Or has it just begun? with the ZK Pod co-hosts

3

Verifiable Databases with Shyam & Emanuele from Provably

4

Dev Ojha on the Osmosis Story and his Return to Privacy

5

lean Ethereum Part 6: Formal Verification with Alex Hicks

6

lean Ethereum Part 5: Devnets & Upgrade Coordination with Will and Raúl

7

lean Ethereum Part 4: leanVM, a Custom VM for Signature Aggregation

8

lean Ethereum Part 3: Security of PQ SNARKs and an update about the Proximity Prize

9

lean Ethereum Part 2: PQ Signatures and Poseidon with Dmitry and Benedikt

10

lean Ethereum Part 1: Introduction with Justin Drake

11

lean Ethereum Miniseries Kick-off with Anna & Nico

12

Bonus: zkMesh+ & Upcoming Miniseries

13

Stateful ZK Identity with Ian Miers

14

Bonus: Join zkMesh+ for some bonus podcast content!

15

Sean Bowe on Tachyon and the Evolution of Zcash

16

Bonus: Welcome to 2026 from ZK Podcast & zkMesh+

17

Year in Review: ZK Podcast in 2025 & Beyond

18

Pratyush Mishra on Tiny Proofs, Folding, Low-Memory SNARKs and More

19

Lattices, Folding, & Symphony with Binyi Chen

20

The Quest for Practical iO with Machina iO

21

Countdown to Q-Day with Project 11

22

Kevin Lacker on AI-Assisted Theorem Proving and Acorn

23

Payy and Payy Card, the Undoxable Credit Card

24

ZKPassport, Obsidion & the Emerging Noir Ecosystem

25

Verifiable Key Management and TEEs with Turnkey

26

Zerocoin to zk-creds: Modern ZK History with Ian Miers

27

Evolving ZK Identity from Iden3 to Privado & Billions

28

Miden & the Edge Blockchain with Bobbin & Gaylord

29

Indistinguishability Obfuscation (iO) with Huijia (Rachel) Lin

30

Lighter, Perp DEXs and Custom ZK Circuits

31

Ethproofs, zkVM Benchmarks & the Unstoppable Rise of ZK with Justin Drake

32

zkPDF and zkID with Vikas Rushi and Ying Tong

33

How ZK inspired AI Watermarking with Miranda Christ

34

ZKTorch & the Evolution of ZKML with Daniel Kang

35

Ligero for Memory-Efficient ZK with Muthu

36

TLSNotary with Dan and Sinu

37

Local-First with grjte and Goblin Oats

38

Bringing ID Onchain with Self

39

ZK in Sui & zkAt with Kostas Kryptos

40

AI and ZK Auditing with David Wong

41

Bringing ZK to Google Wallet with Abhi and Matteo

42

zkTLS with Maddy from Reclaim

43

Implementing LatticeFold with Matthew and Albert from Nethermind

44

Quantum Punks with Alex and Nicola

45

Lattice-based ZK Systems with Vadim Lyubashevsky

46

Building ZK Registries Onchain with Rarimo

47

Quantum Engineering with Jelena Vučković

48

ZK Benchmarks with Conner Swann

49

Coordinating Provers with Norbert from ZkCloud

50

The Founding of Zero Knowledge Systems with Austin Hill

51

Making ZK More Human with ZK Email

52

Learning ZK with Jeffrey from RareSkills

53

Zero Knowledge Systems, Privacy and Security with Jonathan Wilkins

54

ZK in Solana with Mert Mumtaz

55

ZODA & The Accidental Computer

56

Taking ZK IRL with Cursive

57

Back to the Future with Zero Knowledge

58

ZK in Review: Decoding 2024 & Predicting 2025

59

Latest ZK Research with Dan Boneh

60

ZK Events 2024 Recap

61

Mastering MPC & Memes with Mikerah

62

Catch up with Zac and Ariel

63

coSNARKs with Ais and Lukas from TACEO

64

Is Cosmos Dead? A critical look with Zaki Manian

65

TEEs with Andrew Miller

66

On Trust Infrastructure with Arnaud Schenk

67

Restaking Research with Naveen & Tarun

68

ZK in Celestia with Connor O’Hara

69

Groth16, IVC and Formal Verification with Nexus

70

ZK Research Update with Joe Bonneau

71

Verifiable SQL, Reckle Trees and ZK Coprocessing with Lagrange Labs

72

Brussels catch up with Hart from Across

73

ZK Hack Montreal

74

Farcaster with Varun Srinivasan

75

Frameworks for Programmable Privacy with Ying Tong and Bryan Gillespie

76

Building Cryptographic Proofs from Hash Functions with Alessandro Chiesa and Eylon Yogev

77

ZK on Bitcoin with Alpen Labs

78

Proof Aggregation with Shumo and Yi from NEBRA

79

Bonus: ZK Hack Montreal!

80

MPC & ZK in Ligero and Ligetron

81

Web Proofs with Tracy from Pluto

82

Discovering New Elliptic Curves with Antonio Sanso and Youssef El Housni

83

The Role of Reth with Georgios

84

Definitions, Security and Sumcheck in ZK Systems with Justin Thaler

85

STIR with Gal Arnon & Giacomo Fenzi

86

A Deep Dive into Shared Sequencers with Espresso’s Ben Fisch

87

The Past & Present of the L2 Landscape with Jordi Baylina

88

Threshold Signature Schemes & FROST with Chelsea Komlo

89

Enhancing On-Chain Intelligence with Ritual

90

Alin Tomescu on Distributed On-chain Randomness and Keyless Accounts

91

ZK Hack Ecosystem & Winners of ZK Hack IV

92

Succinct’s Platform, Prover Network and SP1

93

Revisiting Hardware with Ingonyama

94

ZKP2P with Brian & Richard

95

The Launch of Celestia and Beyond

96

Algorithmic Game Theory & PoS Tokenomics with Noam Nisan

97

ZK Jargon Decoder with Nico Mohnblatt

98

Avail’s Approach to DA with Prabal Banerjee

99

The Evolution of Aleo with Howard Wu & Alex Pruden

100

Predictions: ZK in 2024

101

ZK Rewind: A Look Back at 2023

102

Exploring FRI, LogUp and using M31 for STARKs with Ulrich Haböck

103

A Dive into Binius with Ulvetanna

104

ZK for web2 interop with zkLogin & ZK Email

105

EigenLayer @ Devconnect

106

A ZK Podcast Retrospective

107

Catch up on zkSync with Alex G

108

Mina’s zkApps and o1js with Brandon and Steve

109

Quantum Cryptography Part 2 with Or Sattath

110

Zeth, Bonsai and RISC Zero with Brian and Jeremy

111

Return to MPC with Nigel Smart

112

Succinct Proofs and Linear Algebra with Guillermo and Alex

113

Exploring Security of ZK Systems with Nethermind’s Michał & Albert

114

State of ZK – Live at zkSummit10!

115

MEV, Mechanism Design & the Censorship Problem with Mallesh M Pai

116

Exploring, Teaching and Auditing ZK with David Wong

117

Penumbra Catch Up with Finch, Erwan and Jen

118

Quantum Cryptography with Or Sattath

119

Gnosis catch-up with Stefan George

120

Paris 2023 Recap with Uma, Zaki and Tarun

121

Intents with Chris Goes from Anoma

122

Using Formal Verification on ZK Systems with Jon Stephens

123

BabyAGI, Agents and Cutting-edge AI with Yohei

124

Error Correcting Codes & Information Theory with Ron Rothblum

125

Exploring Lurk: a New Language for Recursive zk-SNARKs

126

ProtoStar with Benedikt Bünz and Binyi Chen

127

Bonus: zkpod.ai & Attested Audio Experiment with Daniel Kang

128

Intro to zkpod.ai with Anna and Kobi

129

The State of ZK with Anna and Kobi

130

Nova and Beyond with Srinath Setty

131

Expanding Computation on Ethereum with Axiom

132

Building in Public with Sandy & Ye from Scroll

133

SNARKs: A Trilogy with Ariel Gabizon

134

History of Plonk, Noir, and the building of Aztec 3

135

The Move into Web3 with Aptos’ Avery Ching

136

Between Two ZK Events with Nico and Guillermo

137

FHE and ZKPs with Sunscreen’s Ravital Solomon

138

Auctions with Kshitij Kulkarni, Matheus V. X. Ferreira and Tarun

139

A Rollup-Centric Future & Sovereign Chains with Mustafa Al-Bassam

140

ZK Hardware Sessions with Zprize Pt. 2

141

ZK Hardware Sessions with Zprize Pt. 1

142

Where ZK and ML intersect with Yi Sun and Daniel Kang

143

On-Chain Reputation & Identity Building with Sismo

144

Cosmos, Sommelier and Emerging Assets with Zaki Manian

145

Ethereum’s KZG Ceremony with Trent & Carl

146

Proofs, Arguments, and ZKPs with Justin Thaler

147

ZK in 2023 with Kobi, Guillermo, and Tarun

148

Bonus: Apply to zkSummit 9

149

2022 End of Year Wrap with Co-Hosts

150

Ultrasound Money & VRFs with Justin Drake

151

Proof of Solvency with Kostas Chalkias

152

New ZK Use Cases with Dan Boneh

153

Verifying Consensus On-Chain with Succinct

154

Matt Green on bringing ZK into the wild and the compliance debate

155

A look into Namada and Anoma with Awa Sun Yin

156

From Wireless to Blockchains with Pramod Viswanath

157

Exploring RISC Zero with Brian Retford and Jeremy Bruestle

158

What’s the Deal with Hash Functions?

159

Impact of Tornado Cash: a Builders Perspective

160

Revisiting FHE with Rand Hindi from Zama

161

Exploring Penumbra with Henry de Valence

162

Adversarial Machine Learning Research with Florian Tramèr

163

Sanctions against Tornado Cash: a Legal Perspective

164

Journey to Blockchain with David Tse

165

Dive Back into MEV with Alex Stokes and Chris Hager

166

Halo 2 with Daira Hopwood and Str4d

167

Deconstructing Bridges with Vaibhav Chellani

168

Composable Privacy with Manta Network

169

IST and Designing Stablecoins in Cosmos

170

Bonus: Apply to zkSummit 8

171

Aurora and Near with Alex and Illia

172

Exploring ZK Research with Jens Groth

173

Aztec Connect and Private DeFi with Charlie and Joe

174

Mathematical Journeys & Sake with Guillermo Angeris

175

zkEVM with Scroll’s Ye Zhang and Haichen Shen

176

Through the Wormhole with Jump Crypto

177

Cutting Edge ZK Research with Mary Maller

178

Argent’s Smart Contract Wallet Design with Julien Niset

179

Designing Optimistic Interoperability with Nomad

180

Going Cross-Chain with Polkadot’s XCM

181

Catch-up at DevConnect AMS with Tarun, Guillermo and Brendan

182

Move & Sui with Sam Blackshear from Mysten Labs

183

Interoperability with Sergey Gorbunov from Axelar

184

Dark Forest and 0xPARC with Gubsheep

185

Bonus: Jump into ZK

186

Foundry with Georgios Konstantopoulous

187

Connecting Cosmos and Ethereum with Gravity Bridge

188

Something Brewing with Jill Gunter and Ben Fisch from Espresso Systems

189

Funding the Next Wave of Zero Knowledge Tech

190

The Road to Plonky2 with Brendan and Daniel from Polygon Zero

191

Scaling Ethereum with Polygon’s Mihailo Bjelic

192

Hardened JS and the Architecture of Agoric with Dean Tribble

193

Information Theory & Blockchain with Sreeram Kannan

194

A Dip into the Mempool & MEV with Project Blanc

195

Charting Zodiac & DAOs with Nathan Ginnever and Auryn Macmillan

196

Emin Gün Sirer on Avalanche and its Formation

197

zk-SNARKs meets Optimistic Rollup with Zkopru

198

2021 to 2022 with Co-hosts and Friends

199

Bonus ZK Hack Wrap with Kobi!

200

It’s a wrap! ZK Hack Takeaways & What’s Next!

201

The Road to STARKs and Miden with Bobbin Threadbare

202

Liquid Staking with Lido and Chorus One

203

Digging into Data Availability with Ismail Khoffi from Celestia

204

Journey Through the Cosmos Ecosystem with Billy Rennekamp

205

Distilling DeFi Primitives with Guillermo, Alex and Tarun

206

Curating JPEGs with JPG

207

Keeping Up with the Kusama Network

208

MPC and DAGs with Aleph Zero’s Adam Gagol & Matthew Niemerg

209

Stateless Ethereum & Verkle Tries with Dankrad Feist

210

DeFi’s Multichain Future with Zaki Manian from Sommelier

211

SNARK Research & Pedagogy with Alessandro Chiesa

212

Snapps on Mina with Emre and Izaak

213

NFT Creation, Curation and Governance with Luiz from FingerprintsDAO

214

WalletConnect & the DApp/Wallet connection with Pedro Gomes

215

Mixnets, Activism and Privacy with Nym’s Harry Halpin

216

Sushi Beyond the Fork with Joseph Delong

217

zkEVM with Jordi & David from Hermez

218

Zero Knowledge Podcast (finally) has a real website!

219

The Early Days of Cosmos, Chorus One & Epicenter with Brian Crain

220

The Evolution of Yearn with Tracheopteryx and Facu

221

ZKPs & the Dichotomy of Privacy vs Transparency with Josh & Jill

222

The Why & How of Privacy for DAOs

223

Digging into Mining with Kristy-Leigh Minehan

224

Analyzing Osmosis & Preventing MEV with Sunny and Dev

225

The Evolution of ETH 2.0 with Teku’s Ben Edgington

226

ZKPs for Spam Protection & Decentralized Messaging with Status

227

Exploring Uniswap V3 and a Multi-L2 Future with Noah and Moody

228

Anoma’s Adrian Brink on Validity Predicates, Ferveo DKG & More

229

CowSwap & DAO Tech with Gnosis’s Martin Köppelmann

230

The dive into ZK with Iron Fish’s Elena Nadolinski

231

Aping into DeFi and NFTs with Andy Chorlian and Tarun Chitra

232

dYdX’s Antonio Juliano on using STARKs for scalability

233

Diving into Arbitrum’s Optimistic Rollup

234

Exploring SNARKs for Sidechains with Alberto from Horizen

235

Unwrapping Optimism with Ben and Mark

236

Zk-zk-rollup & zk.money with Zac and Joe from Aztec

237

zkEVM & zkPorter with Matter Labs

238

Through the Cosmos Stargate Upgrade

239

Building Private AMMs with Guillermo Angeris

240

ZK languages with Alex Ozdemir

241

Mapping the Polkadot Ecosystem

242

Hardware for ZKPs & VDFs with Supranational

243

Arkworks SNARK libraries with Pratyush Mishra

244

Flashbots with Phil Daian and Stephane Gosselin

245

Where Media & Music meet NFTs & Blockchain

246

Coin Center’s Peter Van Valkenburgh on regulation & crypto

247

Aave with Stani Kulechov

248

The road to Skynet & beyond with David Vorick

249

Kicking off 2021 with Anna, Tarun, James & Josh

250

Year end and end of an era with Anna & Fredrik

251

Loopring with Matt & Brecht

252

DAppNode & the ETH2 kick off with Eduardo Antuña Díez

253

MACI with Koh Wei Jie

254

Threshold Cryptography with Omer Shlomovits from ZenGo

255

Illia Polosukhin on the development and launch of NEAR protocol

256

Stateless Validation with Alin Tomescu

257

Testing PoW Consensus Algorithm Security with Ren Zhang from Nervos

258

ZK for authentication with Nolan and Locke from NuID

259

Monsters in the Mempool with Dan Robinson from Paradigm

260

Blockchain analytics with Alex Svanevik from Nansen

261

John Adler on Optimistic vs ZK Rollup and the data availability problem

262

NFTs & Rarible with Alex Salnikov

263

CryptoKitties, Dapper Labs and Flow with Dieter Shirley

264

Sushiswap Bonus Chat

265

A Tale of Sushi(Swap) with Tarun, Hasu and Anna – Part1

266

Oasis Labs & Privacy with Vishwanath Raman

267

Catch up with Anna & Fredrik

268

Circom & Hermez with Jordi Baylina

269

Aleo with Howard Wu

270

Josh Cincinnati on Zcash, governance and leaving the Zcash Foundation

271

Hasu & Georgios on Bitcoin Security & Elastic Block Size Proposals

272

ZK & Games: Dark Forest with Brian Gu

273

Staking derivatives & DeFi with Alex Evans (and Tarun!)

274

Findora with Benedikt Bunz and Ben Fisch

275

Validium with DeversiFi & Starkware

276

Trusted Setup Bonus: Tornado Cash

277

Math competitions, crypto as alchemy & Gasper with Yan Zhang

278

Look into Solana

279

tBTC with Matt Luongo

280

Trusted Setup Ceremonies Explored

281

Handshake Protocol with Mark Tyneway

282

Proof of Necessary Work with Akis Kattis (NYU)

283

Exploring Tezos & their recent Sapling integration

284

IPFS 0.5 with Molly Mackinlay from Protocol Labs

285

DP-3T & Contact Tracing with Kenny Paterson from ETH Zurich

286

Consensus Algorithms & HotStuff with Ittai Abraham

287

Crypto libraries, Zcash's Zebra and contact tracing with Henry de Valence

288

Mixnets and privacy technology with Claudia Diaz from Nym

289

Exploring FHE with Flavio Bergamaschi from IBM Research

290

Halo with Sean Bowe and Daira Hopwood from ECC

291

ZKPs, Audits & Security with Benjamin Perez from Trail of Bits

292

Urbit with Galen Wolf-Pauly from Tlon

293

ZKPs in Ethereum with Vitalik Buterin & Justin Drake

294

Alistair and Jeff from Web3 on ZKPs & more

295

Tarun and James talk Flash Loans & more

296

Isogenies with Luca De Feo

297

zkSync and Redshift: Matter Labs update

298

Cosmos, IBC and ZKPs with Chris Goes

299

Exploring the Fractal transparent SNARK construction

300

Latest recursive SNARKitecture with Izaak Meckler from O(1)Labs

301

Dive into Plonk!

302

Mixers with Tornado.cash

303

So long 2019! What's next?

304

Exploring use-cases for zkps and zk standards with QEDIT

305

Catch up with Zaki Manian from Tendermint

306

Centrifuge and zkSNARKs in action with Lucas Vogelsang

307

IPFS, Libp2p & Filecoin with Juan Benet

308

Alan Szepieniec on Hash Functions & Supersonic SNARKs

309

Exploring Kusama, the Canary Chaos Network

310

Exploring VDFs with Joseph Bonneau

311

Mapping the Web3 stack with The Graph

312

TEEs with Yan Michalevsky from Anjuna

313

Dan Boneh on the past, present & future of cryptography

314

Post-Devcon5 catch-up with Tarun, James & Georgios

315

MimbleWimble pt 2: Beam Protocol

316

MimbleWimble pt 1: Grin with Daniel Lehnberg

317

Eli Ben-Sasson on the latest from StarkWare and the origin of mathematical ideas

318

zkVM with Oleg Andreev

319

Gnosis & Full Node with Friederike Ernst

320

Light clients & ZKPs with Celo

321

Jorge Izquierdo talks Aragon and DAOs

322

Near Protocol's focus on UX

323

MPC systems with Nigel Smart

324

Eth2.0 update and a look at Libra with Raul Jordan

325

Accumulators with Ben Fisch

326

The road to DEXs with Will Harborne

327

Ariel Gabizon on his work with zkSNARKs and the beauty of math

328

Zexe: Decentralized Private Computation with Pratyush Mishra

329

Zcash community & more with Amber Baldet

330

From Warp Sync to SPREE with Polkadot's Rob Habermeier

331

TEEs, SGX and the Graphene project

332

P2P Messaging & Scuttlebutt with Dominic Tarr

333

On the Frontiers of Validation with Bison Trails

334

Privacy & P4 with Liz and Chris from Least Authority

335

Diving into Cosmos with Sunny

336

Funding Blockchain Development with Kevin Owocki

337

Sean Bowe on SNARKs, Trusted Setups & Elliptic Curve Cryptography

338

Exploring Aztec with Zac Williamson

339

Blockchain 101: Randomness and Random Beacons with Justin Drake

340

J. Ayo Akinyele Talks Lightning Network & Building Bolt

341

zkSNARKs for Scale with Matter Labs

342

Getting Radicle with Julian Arni

343

Digging into DAI with Rune Christensen from Maker

344

Decentralised Storage with Arweave

345

Conversations at EthCC

346

Formal Verification with Martin Lundfall

347

ETH2.0 Update With Danny Ryan

348

Bridges, xDai and Burner Wallets with Igor & Austin

349

Unleashing Melon into the wild with Jenna Zenk

350

Proxy re-encryption and FHE with NuCypher

351

The path to an ERC standard

352

Statistical modeling of PoS systems with Tarun Chitra

353

Cryptography 101: Multi-Party Computations

354

STARKs & StarkWare with Eli and Alessandro

355

Kicking off 2019 with Jutta Steiner

356

Merklize this! Merkle Trees & Patricia Tries

357

Get to know a Core Dev: Martin Holst Swende

358

ETHSingapore in review

359

Digging into recursive zkSNARKs with Coda

360

Get to know a Core Dev: Péter Szilágyi

361

Vlad and Gav go head-to-head on blockchain governance

362

Exploring Spacemesh with Julian Loss

363

Zooko talks Zcash on our 50th episode

364

Blockchain 101: Cryptoeconomic Primitives and Staking

365

Talking UX with Taylor Monahan of MyCrypto

366

Chat with Richard Craib from Numerai

367

Gavin Wood on Polkadot, Sharding and Substrate

368

P2P messaging with Henri from Streamr

369

Blockchain 101: Transaction lifecycle & the mempool

370

Hudson Jameson talks EIPs and Ethereum core decision-making

371

ETHPrize & Open Source Block Explorers

372

Zokrates with Jacob Eberhardt

373

Benedikt Bünz on Bulletproofs and Verifiable Delay Functions

374

Matthew Di Ferrante on the security of blockchain clients

375

Intro to zkSNARKs with Howard Wu

376

Sharding Update With Prysmatic Labs

377

Eric Tang of Livepeer talks off-chain computation

378

Testnets with Ethan from Tendermint

379

Blockchain 101: What are smart contracts?

380

Open Source Incentivization and Sustainability with OSCoin

381

Zero Knowledge at Zcon0!

382

Blockchain 101: Blocks & Block Headers

383

Open Organizations & Governance with Colony

384

The DAO, the white hat hacker group & Giveth with Griff

385

ETHBuenosAires in review

386

Zeppelin and a chat about upgradability

387

What and why of eWasm with Lane and Alex

388

Storage rent with Phil Daian

389

Blockchain UX and the UXUnConf

390

Blockchain 101: get your full node running!

391

Developer Education in Blockchain

392

Introduction to Zero Knowledge Proofs

393

Ecosystem development with Jon Choi of Ethereum Foundation

394

ZK Summit, sharding, testnets and ASIC resistance

395

Discussing Plasma and Storage Rent with Karl Floersch and Phil Daian

396

Talking security with JP Smith from Trail of Bits

397

Chatting about consensus algorithms with Robert Habermeier

398

Diving deep into DFINITY

399

Bloom filters, PoA and what's up with ERP?

400

How to become a blockchain developer? We ask Gavin Wood

401

Pragma's new tools and staying agile in blockchain

402

Blockchain, Open-Source & Security

403

Bootnodes, Databases and News

404

Decentralized Storage Part 2: Solutions

405

Decentralized Storage Part 1: Looking back

406

s/2017/2018: our New Year's Podcast

407

A fireside chat with a couple Parity peeps

408

Dapps and Kitties

409

Hard Forks

410

PoW, what is it and why do we want PoS

411

RustFest 2017 in Review