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By Zero Knowledge Podcast
Zero Knowledge is a podcast which goes deep into the tech that will power the emerging decentralised web and the community building this.
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1 hr 7 min
Topics
Blockchain architecture, smart contracts, consensus, protocols, and decentralized applications.
Cryptocurrencies, stablecoins, tokens, markets, custody, and digital-asset infrastructure.
Peer-to-peer networks, decentralized governance, protocols, and distributed ownership.
Formats
Host-led conversation where a guest supplies most of the subject matter.
Detailed technical, architectural, or research-oriented examination.
Audience level
Assumes basic technology literacy and familiarity with common products, roles, and terminology.
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This week, Anna is joined by Soubhik Deb, Head of Research at EigenLabs, to explore Yukon, a platform for collaborative AI-powered research. Soubhik traces the project’s origins to ECDSA, a competition launched in response to Google’s work on more resource-efficient quantum circuits for breaking secp256k1.
This week, Anna and Kobi are joined by Ron Rothblum, Professor of Computer Science at Technion and researcher at Succinct.
This week, Anna catches up with Richard Liang from Peer, formerly ZKP2P.
This week, Anna and Guillermo are joined by Patrick O'Grady, founder of Commonware. They discuss his journey from Coinbase and Avalanche to building Commonware, a Rust library of composable primitives for blockchain development.
In this episode, Anna and Kobi are joined by Alex Hoover, cryptographer and Assistant Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology. They explore Private Information Retrieval (PIR)—a cryptographic primitive that lets users query public databases without revealing what they're looking for.
This week, Anna and Nico are joined by Alex Ozdemir, Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech, to explore the intersection of formal verification and zero knowledge.
This week, Anna speaks with Sergey Gorbunov, Engineer at Circle, about Arc, Circle’s new EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain, and its approach to a TEE based on-chain privacy.
Last week on the show, we interviewed Benedikt Bünz, Chief Scientist at Espresso Systems and Professor at NYU. In this segment, Anna, Kobi, and Benedikt discuss whether AI poses a genuine threat to the foundations of cryptography.
In this episode, Anna and Kobi speak with Benedikt Bünz, Chief Scientist at Espresso Systems and Professor at NYU. They start with a quick update on Espresso's architecture, its role in delivering fast finality across chains, and the challenges of building high-throughput blockchain infrastructure.
Continuing our conversation from last week, Wyatt Benno (ICME) describes the world of 'vericoding' - the next stage after the era of 'vibecoding.' Vericoding uses formal mathematics to prove that AI code is actually correct and help prevent bugs in AI-written code.