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Research
Succinct Arguments over Towers of Binary Fields | Benjamin E. Diamond and Jim Posen
BaseFold: Efficient Field-Agnostic Polynomial Commitment Schemes from Foldable Codes | Hadas Zeilberger, Binyi Chen and Ben Fisch
Concrete Security for Succinct Arguments from Vector Commitments | Alessandro Chiesa, Marcel Dall'Agnol, Ziyi Guan and Nicholas Spooner
Accountable Multi-Signatures with Constant Size Public Keys | Dan Boneh, Aditi Partap and Brent Waters
On Parallel Repetition of PCPs | Alessandro Chiesa, Ziyi Guan and Burcu Yıldız
Malleable Commitments from Group Actions and Zero-Knowledge Proofs for Circuits based on Isogenies | Mingjie Chen, Yi-Fu Lai, Abel Laval, Laurane Marco and Christophe Petit
On Quantum Simulation-Soundness | Behzad Abdolmaleki, Céline Chevalier, Ehsan Ebrahimi, Giulio Malavolta and Quoc-Huy Vu
On the Feasibility of E2E Verifiable Online Voting – A Case Study From Durga Puja Trial | Horia Druliac, Matthew Bardsley, Chris Riches, Christian Dunn, Luke Harrison, Bimal Roy and Feng Hao
ZKSMT: A VM for Proving SMT Theorems in Zero Knowledge | Daniel Luick, John Kolesar, Timos Antonopoulos, William R. Harris, James Parker, Ruzica Piskac, Eran Tromer, Xiao Wang and Ning Luo
Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge Functional Proofs | Gongxian Zeng, Junzuo Lai, Zhengan Huang, Linru Zhang, Xiangning Wang, Kwok-Yan Lam, Huaxiong Wang and Jian Weng
Dora: Processor Expressiveness is (Nearly) Free in Zero-Knowledge for RAM Programs | Aarushi Goel, Mathias Hall-Andersen and Gabriel Kaptchuk
Updatable Privacy-Preserving Blueprints | Bernardo David, Felix Engelmann, Tore Frederiksen, Markulf Kohlweiss, Elena Pagnin and Mikhail Volkhov
An Efficient Quantum Parallel Repetition Theorem and Applications | John Bostanci, Luowen Qian, Nicholas Spooner and Henry Yuen
BabySpartan: Lasso-Based SNARK for Non-Uniform Computation | Srinath Setty and Justin Thaler
Beyond MPC-in-the-Head: Black-Box Constructions of Short Zero-Knowledge Proofs | Carmit Hazay, Muthuramakrishnan Venkitasubramaniam and Mor Weiss
Family of Embedded Curves for BLS | Antonio Sanso
Traitor Tracing for Threshold Decryption | Dan Boneh, Aditi Partap and Lior Rotem
Articles/Threads
ZK Hack Istanbul Summary and Winners | ZK Hack
Insights and Reflections from DevConnect 2023 | O(1) Labs
The Odd Couple: ZK and Optimistic Rollups on a Scalability Date | AltLayer & RISC Zero
ZKID: A Step Towards Privacy-Preserving Digital Identity | ScalingX
Long Thread On Decentralized Prover Coordination Problem and Mechanisms | @ballsyalchemist
Nova: from IVC to general PCD for zkMapReduce | @nikkolasg1
Booster Rollups Part 2: ZK-EVM as a ZK Coprocessor | Ethereum Research
ZKPs, SIGINT and Psychological Warfare | @omershlomovits
The Current Landscape of ZK Projects | HC Capital
Explaining How Aztec Brings Privacy to Web3 | @MohamedFFouda
How to Build Modern SNARKs Systems | Joseandro Luiz
Binius: A Hardware-Optimized SNARK | Ulvetanna
Boosting Lasso+Jolt Through Faster Commitments – With Far-Reaching Consequences | Justin Thaler
A Technical FAQ on Lasso, Jolt, and Recent Advancements in SNARK Design | Justin Thaler
ZKML and Autonomous Worlds | EZKL x Lattice
Off-Chain Compute Is All You Need | @0x_emperor & @0xkrane
Demystifying ZKML | Vid Kersic
Beyond Zero-Knowledge: What’s Next in Programmable Cryptography? | PSE
Exit Games for EVM Validiums: the Return of Plasma | Vitalik Buterin
Videos/Podcast
ZK Hack Istanbul Workshops all videos | ZK Hack
ZK in 2023 by Zac Williamson | Antalpha Labs
ZK Accelerate 2023 all videos | Ingonyama
Access Transactions and Receipts On-chain with Axiom | Axiom
Episode 300: A ZK Podcast Retrospective | ZK Podcast
Catch up on zkSync with Alex G | ZK Podcast
Mina's zkApps and o1js with Brandon and Steve | ZK Podcast
Quantum Cryptography Part 2 with Or Sattath | ZK Podcast (Part 1 can be found here)
Guides and Resources
If You Don't Know, Look It Up or How to Create Lookup Tables for Zero Knowledge Proofs | LambdaClass Blog
Awesome-folding GitHub repo: A Curated List of Zero-Knowledge Folding Schemes | Lurk Labs
Cairo's Public Memory | Cryptologie Blog
Verkle Trees | Polytope Blog
Node Guardians’ New Campaign to Discover Noir Language | NodeGuardians x Noir
Introduction to FHE | Taiko Labs
ZK Benchmark Toolkit | Ingonyama
Vulnerabilities/Disclosures
Uncovering a ZK-EVM Soundness Bug in zkSync Era | ChainLight
Tools / implementations
From Scratch Implementation of 3 Multilinear Polynomial Commitment Schemes (Hyrax, Ligero & Brakedown) With Arkworks Backend | @0xHungryCats
Uniswap V4 Hook + Brevis ZK Coprocessor = Data-driven DEX Experiences | Brevis
Demonstration of Using a Metal Compute Shader to Accelerate plonky2/starky Proving | QED Protocol
Anon Exchange: Using Semaphore Protocol to Create an NFT Exchange Protecting Anonymity | @lilioo826 x PSE
FHE in Risc0 zkVM | HashCloak
Tech Deep Dive: Verifying FHE in RISC Zero, Part I | @weikengchen
Bridging Web2 and Web3 with Bonsai Pay: A Bonsai-powered Demo Application | RISC Zero
Foster Open Dialogues on Farcaster, zk-Prove your FID & Cast Privately | 33bits
Plonk in Python | tarassh
Writing Robust C - Best Practices for Finding and Preventing Vulnerabilities | EF
Project Updates
The Future of Consumer Data: How Snickerdoodle Delivers a Solution to the 3rd Party Cookie Problem | Snickerdoodle
Polygon Labs and NEAR Foundation Collaborate to Build a zkWasm L2 Prover as a Component for Polygon CDK | Polygon x NEAR
Chip Company Ingonyama Raises $20 Million in Seed Round | Ingonyama
Introducing Hyperbridge: An Interoperability Coprocessor | Polytope Labs
DM Your SUI with zkSend | Mysten Labs
Aztec Announces Noir v0.19.2 and Its List of Features | Aztec
Announcing zkSharding for Ethereum | ;nil= Foundation
Doubling Down on Open Source at RISC Zero | RISC Zero
Introducing Succinct | Succinct
Product Announcement: ZK-Containers | Ingonyama
ZKP2P Announces Its Alpha Launch | ZKP2P
Partnership Announcement: Welcoming Modulus to Ion’s Lab | ION Protocol
Creating a ZKP-Secured Bidirectional Bridge from Avail to Ethereum | Succinct x Avail
Introducing ‘Ten’ — A Leap Beyond Privacy | Obscuro Labs
Ola Opens Applications for DevTestnet Whitelist: Bringing Compliant Privacy to ZKRollups | Ola
Herodotus: Proving Ethereum’s State Using Storage Proofs on Starknet | StarkWare x Herodotus
Wallet Performance Issues Resolved, ECC Exiting Emergency Mode | Electric Coin Company
ZKP Requester-Prover Separation Model to Support Full ZK and Optimistic ZK | ZKPool
How Does One Combine Lagrange’s Recproofs and ZKMapReduce (ZMKR) Stack with Folding Schemes? | Lagrange
Events/Hackathons
Polygon Connect | Bengaluru, India. Dec 7
ETHIndia | Bengaluru, India. Dec 8 - 10
ZK HACK IV | Online. Jan 16 - Feb 6 2024
ETHDenver | Denver, US. Feb 23 - Mar 3
ETHGlobal London | London, UK. Mar 15 - 17
RWC 2024 | Toronto, Canada. March 25 - 27
zkSummit11 | Athens, Greece. Apr 10 - SAVE THE DATE
EuroSys 2024 | Athens, Greece. Apr 22 - 25
ETHGlobal Sydney | Sydney, Australia. May 3 - 5
DappCon 2024 | Berlin, Germany. May 21 - 23
ETHBerlin | Berlin, Germany. May 24 - 26
Eurocrypt 2024 | Zurich, Switzerland. May 26 - 30
DevCon | Southeast Asia. Spring 2024?
ETHGlobal Brussels | Brussels, Belgium. July 12 - 14
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