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Episode 59: STARKs & StarkWare with Eli and Alessandro
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66 minutes
Released:
Jan 9, 2019
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In this week's episode, we catch up with Eli Ben-Sasson and Alessandro Chiesa from StarkWare Industries (https://www.starkware.co/). We talk about their longstanding academic work in theoretic & applied cryptography, how StarkWare came to be, the emergence of zkSNARKs and zkSTARKs, some of the differences between these different zero knowledge systems, dive into the specific features of STARKs (!) and what's coming next in the space.
For some background on the topics we cover in this episode, please check out the other episodes in our ZK Series (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/zkseries)
Here are a few papers we mentioned in the talk:
Zero coin: http://zerocoin.org/media/pdf/ZerocoinOakland.pdf
Zero cash: http://zerocash-project.org/paper
Follow Eli on Twitter: https://twitter.com/elibensasson?lang=en
To find out about our ZK Study Club, join the Zero Knowledge telegram group: https://t.me/joinchat/B_81tQ57-ThZg8yOSx5gjA
Special thanks to POA Network (https://poa.network/) for being our sponsor on this episode. To learn more about threshold cryptography and how to use it, check out the latest POA Network Medium post :
https://medium.com/poa-network/tagged/hbbft
If you like what we do:
Follow us on Twitter - @zeroknowledgefm (https://twitter.com/zeroknowledgefm)
Support us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/zeroknowledge
Or directly here:
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For some background on the topics we cover in this episode, please check out the other episodes in our ZK Series (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/zkseries)
Here are a few papers we mentioned in the talk:
Zero coin: http://zerocoin.org/media/pdf/ZerocoinOakland.pdf
Zero cash: http://zerocash-project.org/paper
Follow Eli on Twitter: https://twitter.com/elibensasson?lang=en
To find out about our ZK Study Club, join the Zero Knowledge telegram group: https://t.me/joinchat/B_81tQ57-ThZg8yOSx5gjA
Special thanks to POA Network (https://poa.network/) for being our sponsor on this episode. To learn more about threshold cryptography and how to use it, check out the latest POA Network Medium post :
https://medium.com/poa-network/tagged/hbbft
If you like what we do:
Follow us on Twitter - @zeroknowledgefm (https://twitter.com/zeroknowledgefm)
Support us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/zeroknowledge
Or directly here:
ETH: 0xC0FFEE1B5083230a5154F55f253B6b6ae8F29B1a
BTC: 1cafekGa3podM4fBxPSQc6RCEXQNTK8Zz
Released:
Jan 9, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
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