✨ ZK-Newsflash! ✨

Here are the highlights of what happened in the ZK space last week, 26th August - 1st September.

We hosted a fantastic X Space with Versatus and Opacity Network about the stack for a decentralized future. 📢

The conversation was engaging, insightful, and definitely worth a listen!

Diego Kingston was the special guest on the X Space hosted by Phala Network. ✅

Listen to it and explore real-world use cases of TEEs.

Our co-founder and Head of Research Diego Kingston was on The Rollup last week! 📢

It was an insightful conversation on ZKVMs and proof verification.

Watch the stream below to explore these fascinating topics further.

The Starknet ‘Bolt’ upgrade is here! ⚡️

It introduces two features:

✅ “Parallel execution”, enabling independent transactions to be executed simultaneously.

✅ And “Block packing” cuts fixed L1 costs and reduces transaction confirmation times and block times.

StarkWare published a new algorithm that improves the multiplication performance for Circle STARK related fields. 🤯

It's satisfying to see these improvements and optimizations.

Congratulations to Avihu Levy from StarkWare, Weikeng Chen and @pingzhouyuan. Great work!

RISC Zero is now fully open source! 🚀

This is a major milestone that will drive innovation, foster collaboration, and promote transparency across the entire ecosystem.

ZK is spreading everywhere.

Congratulations to RISC Zero on this huge step!

Polyhedra has published an interesting article: Demystifying ZK Proofs. ✨

It offers:

✅ A basic description of what ZK proofs are.

✅ It covers practical applications.

✅ And more.

It highlights the impact and potential of this technology.

Another ZK Podcast is out! 📢

This time Anna Rose and Tarun Chitra chat with Naveen Durvasula about his recent work ‘Robust Restaking Networks'.

Listen to it to learn more about this fascinating topic, how restaking works, and how it can be optimized.

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