Episodes

Episode 67: Formal Verification with Martin Lundfall

In this week’s episode, we sit down with Martin Lundfall (Dapphub, MakerDAO) to discuss formal verification – a topic request that comes directly from the Zero Knowledge audience. We cover what formal verification is, where it makes sense, where it doesn’t, the k-framework, and much more.

Episode 66: ETH2.0 Update With Danny Ryan

In this week’s episode, Anna and Fredrik chat with Danny Ryan from the Ethereum Foundation about the ETH2.0 project. We cover how ETH2.0 came to be, how it works, the new roadmap, and where the project is headed.

Episode 64: Unleashing Melon into the wild with Jenna Zenk

In this week’s episode, Anna sits down with Jenna Zenk from Melonport to discuss her background, the path to the melon protocol, the challenges of building sophisticated smart contracts and what it means to release a decentralised protocol into the wild.

Episode 63: Proxy re-encryption and FHE with NuCypher

In this episode, we sit down with Bogdan Opanchuk and John “Tux” Pacific from NuCypher to chat about their threshold proxy re-encryption technology, how the project aims to provide privacy infrastructure, dig into their nuFHE scheme and explore far along FHE research, the cryptographic “holy grail”, really is.

Episode 62: The path to an ERC standard

In this episode, we discuss tokens, token standards and the ERC process. We cover some of the most popular token standards and discuss what it takes to design a standard and get this accepted. We also have a chat with Matt Lockyer about his experience submitting ERC998.

Episode 60: Cryptography 101: Multi-Party Computations

In this week’s episode, Anna and Fredrik give a general introduction to MPCs, go over a few examples of MPCs in action, compare them with other cryptographic concepts, try to pronounce “fully homomorphic encryption” properly, and more!

Episode 59: STARKs & StarkWare with Eli and Alessandro

In this week’s episode, we catch up with Eli Ben-Sasson and Alessandro Chiesa from StarkWare Industries. We talk about their longstanding academic work in theoretic & applied cryptography, how StarkWare came to be, the emergence of SNARKs and STARKs, some of the differences between these different zero knowledge systems and what’s coming next in the space.

Episode 58: Kicking off 2019 with Jutta Steiner

In this week’s episode, we sit down with Jutta Steiner, our friend and Fredrik’s CEO at Parity Technologies, to talk about her history in the space, the origin of Parity, the last year in blockchain, and what we see coming in 2019!

Episode 57: Merklize this! Merkle Trees & Patricia Tries

In this week’s episode, Anna and Fredrik dig into the topic of Merkle trees. We discuss the history of the concept, explore different kinds of Merkle trees, and touch on Radix trees & Patricia Merkle tries. We also look a bit at their usage in both Bitcoin and Ethereum.

Episode 56: Get to know a Core Dev: Martin Holst Swende

In this episode, Fredrik sits down Martin, who is a Core Dev working on the Geth client and head of security for the Ethereum foundation. They chat about what got him into the space, his interest in security, and what he would recommend to other devs looking to get into the space.

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