In this week’s episode, we learn more about Plonk (https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/953) with Ariel Gabizon (https://twitter.com/relgabizon) and Zac Williamson (https://twitter.com/Zac_Aztec) from Aztec (https://twitter.com/aztecprotocol). PLONK is a recent highly efficient, universal SNARK construction. We explore what distinguishes Plonk from some other other new constructions including their focus on Lagrange-bases to deconstruct complex problem statements into simple polynomial identities.
This episode goes very deep and so we do recommend you check out a few of previous episodes to help you follow along! All mentioned can be found here along with the other deep zk-topic episodes: https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/zkseries
Here is Justin Drake Polynomial commitment schemes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bz16BURH_u8) study club video, as well as videos from the zkSummit on Marlin (https://youtu.be/bJDLf8KLdL0) and Supersonics (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJPS_SWoplI)
Ariel also mentions the Bayer groth permutation argument (www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/J.Groth/MinimalShuffle.pdf) which influenced their work.
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