✨ ZK-Newsflash! ✨
Here are the highlights of what happened in the ZK space last week, 7th - 13th October.
Last week we had the pleasure of connecting with Alignors in Istanbul! 🎉
The event was spectacular. We're thrilled to have interacted with you and discussed what's possible with Aligned.
An amazing experience. Thank you to everyone who attended.
StarkWare shows advancements of STARKs on Bitcoin. Are they closer than ever? ⚡️
It's fantastic to see this progress, truly driving innovation for Bitcoin.
Congratulations on this incredible work, Weikeng Chen!
Read on to learn more.
'Why you should pay attention to Real Complex STARKs', by Omer Shlomovits, CEO of Ingonyama. ⭐️
It is an excellent article which first of all offers a very interesting way to get into research.
The author describes his take on how the Circle STARK Paper came to be and the contributions presented in @Yuval_Domb's paper on “Really Complex Codes with Application to STARKs”.
You won't want to miss it. Great article. Thanks Ingonyama for sharing.
Attention devs! Kakarot Testnet has moved to Starknet Sepolia! 🥕
This move, previously announced by the team, has been successfully completed.
They remind us that the Former testnet is deprecated.
Congrats to Kakarot and its community!
Amazing The Rollup podcast: Ethereum's ZK & Formal Verification Endgame with Alexander Hicks from the Ethereum Foundation. 📢
The conversation is very interesting and covers a wide range of topics including the importance of Formal Verification in Blockchain, the security of ZKVMs, even the debate between Cryptographic vs. Crypto-Economic Security, and many more.
Excellent episode.
Blaze is here! A new and highly efficient multilinear polynomial commitment scheme over binary fields. 🚀
It has an extremely efficient prover, both asymptotically and concretely.
The work was presented jointly by Ron Rothblum, Binyi Chen, Ben Fisch, Hadas Zeilberger, Martijn Brehm, and Nicolas Resch.
This is fantastic work.
Introducing WHIR: A new IOP of proximity that offers small query complexity and exceptionally fast verification time. ⚡️
The paper is co-authored by Giacomo Fenzi, Gal Arnon, Alessandro Chiesa, and Eylon Yogev.
Read on to learn more.
Congratulations to the co-authors!
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