Zero Knowledge

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. Covering the latest in zero knowledge research and application... more

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March 25, 2025The Founding of Zero Knowledge Systems with Austin Hill
This week, we present the third installment in the Zero Knowledge Systems story. In this episode, Anna chats with Austin Hill, one of the original founders of Zero Knowledge Systems.
They explore the company’s early days, Austin’s background in tech, and what this scene in Montreal was like in the late ’90s. The conversation covers fundraising during the dot-com boom, Zero Knowledge Systems’s ambitious vision for internet privacy, its flagship product Freedom, and how the company pivoted from a broad individual privacy mission to a more focused B2B approach.
They cover Austin’s journey after ZKS—including how he discovered Bitcoin, co-founded Blockstream, and navigated the challenges of building a business around open-source infrastructure. He also discusses a new project he's involved in, which ventures into a completely different field—material nanotechnology.
We encourage you to check out the first two episodes of the series here and here before diving into this one.

Related links:
Part 1: Back to the Future with Zero Knowledge

Part 2: Zero Knowledge Systems, Privacy and Security with Jonathan Wilkins

Zero Knowledge Enemy of the State Shift Article

Knowing Glances: Understanding Infrastructures of Surveillance

Further reading:
Zero Knowledge Systems Wikipedia

Blockstream Website

Wired Article: Zero-Knowledge: Nothing Personal

News Burst: Zero-Knowledge open sources Freedom

Zero-Knowledge Systems Introduces Security and Privacy Tool Suite

Interview: Austin Hill On Blockstream, Open Source And Privacy

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March 19, 2025Making ZK More Human with ZK Email
This week Anna catches up with Aayush Gupta from ZK Email, covering the latest developments and real-world applications of the ZK Email protocol. They explore how the project serves as a bridge between Web2 systems and Web3 infrastructure and go on to discuss use cases like wallet-based account recovery, anonymous reputation-based communication, and digital provenance verification. This was an exploration of novel ZK use cases, which is something we love to cover - so we hope you enjoy it!
Related links:
ZK Email Website

ZKP2P with Brian & Richard

Modular Summit 3.0 Panel: ZK Applications

ZK12: Future of ZK Applications with Anna & Friends

ZK for web2 interop with zkLogin & ZK Email

ZK Email: Making Airdrops More Human

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Missing Link are a talent team built for the Web3 era, helping projects across the ecosystem connect with the right candidates at the right time.
Whether you're an established project or a startup searching for specialized talent, Missing Link can help. Visit their website at missing-link.io.

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1h 4min
March 12, 2025Learning ZK with Jeffrey from RareSkills
This week Anna chats with Jeffrey Scholz, founder of RareSkills. They discuss onboarding developers into ZK and dive into RareSkills' education program via The ZK Book and their ZK bootcamps. They explore strategies for breaking down complex topics, decisions on curriculum design, tool selection, and methodologies for enabling self-sufficient learning. A great listen for the listeners who want to learn ZK and are trying to figure out how to approach the challenge.
Related links:
RareSkills Website

ZK HACK Website

ZK HACK Whiteboard Sessions

RareSkills ZK Book

Jeffrey Scholz on Medium

Jeffrey Scholz’s course on Udemy

Consensys Bootcamp in 2021

Encode Club

ZK Podcast Episode 309 - ZK Jargon Decoder with Nico Mohnblatt video

ZK HACK - Thaler Book Study Group Playlist on YouTube

The MoonMath Manual to zk-SNARKs by Least Authority

Applications for zkSummit13 are now open, spots are limited for this edition so apply soon (www.zksummit.com) if you want to join.

Missing Link are a talent team built for the Web3 era, helping projects across the ecosystem connect with the right candidates at the right time.
Whether you're an established project or a startup searching for specialized talent, Missing Link can help. Visit their website at missing-link.io.
**If you like what we do:**
* Find all our links here! @ZeroKnowledge | Linktree
* Subscribe to our podcast newsletter
* Follow us on Twitter @zeroknowledgefm
* Join us on Telegram
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1h 8min
March 05, 2025Zero Knowledge Systems, Privacy and Security with Jonathan Wilkins
This week Anna jumps back into the story of Zero Knowledge Systems with Jonathan Wilkins, cofounder Blockstream and Cloaked Services and previous employee of ZKS back in 2000. They explore the emergence of security culture in the 1990s, what led Jonathan to join Zero Knowledge Systems and his experience working on projects such as the Freedom Network. They discuss the office atmosphere and the research lab before catching up on the work Jonathan has focused on since then.
Key concepts we see in the ZK community today were first pioneered by the Zero Knowledge Systems research team and we hope to invite more of these past members of the team in the future!
Related links:
Podcast Episode: Back to the Future with Zero Knowledge

iSEC Partners

X.25 Networks

2600 Meetups

C++ Builder

Delphi

‘Zero-Knowledge: Nothing Personal’ - Wired

Handbook of Applied Cryptography by Alfred J. Menezes, Paul C. van Oorschot and Scott A. Vanstone

Ian Goldberg profile

Adam Schostack - Schostack + Associates

Adam Back Twitter

Austin Hill Twitter

Bitcointalk

Tor Network

Freedom Network excerpt by ScienceDirect

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**If you like what we do:**
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1h 6min
February 26, 2025ZK in Solana with Mert Mumtaz
This week Anna and Tarun chat with Mert Mumtaz. Mert is the co-founder and CEO of Helius and is known for his contributions to the Solana ecosystem. They explore Mert’s background, his entry into the space, and his experiences during the 2022 market downturn and subsequent recovery. The conversation covers Solana’s positioning within the broader blockchain landscape and includes an overview of emerging ZK projects in the ecosystem.
Related links:
Zero-Knowledge Proofs: Its Applications on Solana

Episode 135 - Look into Solana

Solana projects mentioned: Backpack, Anza, Gido, Jupiter

ZK projects mentioned: Phantom, Elusiv, Light Protocol, Dark Protocol

Solana Token Extensions

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1h 10min
February 19, 2025ZODA & The Accidental Computer
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This week Anna catches up with Nico, Guillermo and Alex from Bain Capital Crypto to discuss two of their recent works; ZODA: Zero-Overhead Data Availability by the trio and The Accidental Computer by Alex & Guille. The group starts with a discussion about how papers like FRIDA and Foundations of Data Availability Sampling inspired ZODA and then cover the innovations presented in ZODA itself. They wrap up with a discussion about The Accidental Computer, and in doing so tease out some of the fundamental concepts in current ZK research.

Related links:
ZK Podcast: Disclosures

ZODA: Zero-Overhead Data Availability by Alex Evans, Guillermo Angeris and Nico Mohnblatt

FRIDA: Data Availability Sampling from FRI by Mathias Hall-Andersen, Mark Simkin and Benedikt Wagner

Foundations of Data Availability Sampling by Mathias Hall-Andersen, Mark Simkin and Benedikt Wagner

The Accidental Computer: Polynomial Commitments from Data Availability by Alex Evans and Guillermo Angeris

Guille's Tweet “anon, what if I told you that you can prove the correctness of the largest celestia block in <200ms on a single core of an mba”

Bain Capital Crypto Blog

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IF YOU LIKE WHAT WE DO:
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1h 7min
February 12, 2025Taking ZK IRL with Cursive
This week, Anna and Nico chat with Andrew Lu and Vivek Bhupatiraju from Cursive.
They map out the timeline of their in-person activations and experiments using programmable cryptography, which they have been running since late 2023. By quickly developing small applications and products to test with real users, they have gathered tangible data about these innovations at various live conferences worldwide, including our own flagship events, zkSummit11 and zkSummit12.
They share the challenges and insights gained from these experimental products. Additionally, they share the concepts that inspired their innovations, such as digital pheromones and narrowcasting.
Related links:
Zupass

ZK for web2 interop with zkLogin & ZK Email

Cursive

ETH Denver

Building cryptographic apps for human connection - Vivek Bhupatiraju & Andrew Lu

Phantom Zone GitHub

Frontiers by Paradigm

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1h 21min
February 05, 2025 Back to the Future with Zero Knowledge
We’re back with a new look and a new jingle!
In this episode, ZK Podcast returns, and host Anna Rose shares a story from her past that strangely connects to the present day and the name "Zero Knowledge."
Listen in as we kick off the show once again.
Applications for zkSummit13 are now open, apply for your spot here.
Check out the latest jobs in ZK at the ZK Podcast jobs board.
Zero Knowledge Systems on Wikipedia
IF YOU LIKE WHAT WE DO:
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17min
January 16, 2025 ZK Podcast is Hiring!!
A quick update from the Zero Knowledge Podcast: The show is set to resume at the beginning of February, with exciting episodes and topics we can't wait to share with you!
In the meantime, the team is hiring for two roles—a Community Marketing Manager to amplify the podcast's reach authentically and a Strategic Growth Lead to strengthen the business side of operations. If you are a potential candidate, please do apply over on the ZK Jobs Board!
As 2025 approaches, the podcast aims to further explore zero-knowledge technology's potential to shape the future and invites the community to join in the journey.
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7min
December 23, 2024ZK in Review: Decoding 2024 & Predicting 2025
Summary
This week, Anna catches up with cohosts, Tarun, Nico and Guillermo to do a look back at the zk research and applications that came out in 2024. They go on to discuss the challenges facing the ecosystem. And they wrap with a brief look forward, covering what to expect in ZK in 2025.
This will be the last ep of 2024, thank you for joining us this year!
Further Reading:
ZK12: Welcome to zkSummit & Sponsor Intro - Anna Rose
Circle STARKs by Haböck, Levit and Papini
StarkWare Unveils New 'Stwo' Cryptographic Prover That's 'Blazingly Fast'
ZK12: WHIR: Reed-Solomon Proximity Testing with Super-Fast Verification by Eylon Yogev
Episode 290: Exploring, Teaching and Auditing ZK with David Wong
Episode 345: Latest ZK Research with Dan Boneh
LatticeFold: A Lattice-based Folding Scheme and its Applications to Succinct Proof Systems by Dan Boneh and Binyi Chen
LaBRADOR: Compact Proofs for R1CS from Module-SIS? by Ward Beullens and Gregor Seiler
Quantum Algorithms for Lattice Problems by Yilei Chen
Episode 325: Web Proofs with Tracy from Pluto
ZODA: Zero-Overhead Data Availability by Evans, Mohnblatt and Angeris

Check out the ZK Jobs Board for the latest jobs in ZK at jobsboard.zeroknowledge.fm

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