Episode 123: Halo with Sean Bowe and Daira Hopwood from ECC
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English - April 01, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 41.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 90 ratingsTechnology Education blockchain zero knowledge cryptography decentralised web decentralize web3 ethereum Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In this episode, we catch up with Sean Bowe (https://twitter.com/ebfull) and Daira Hopwood (https://twitter.com/feministPLT) from the Electric Coin Company (https://electriccoin.co/) to chat about Halo, a recursive proof composition that doesn't require a trusted setup. We cover the efficiency techniques used in Halo such as "nested amortization", how the protocol was developed, what some of the key findings are, and how it fits in with the other recent SNARK-based protocols.
We touch on the following material:
Sean Bowe on SNARKs, Trusted Setups & Elliptic Curve Cryptography (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/76)
https://github.com/daira/tweedle
Halo whitepaper (https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/1021.pdf)
Endomorphism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endomorphism)
Latest recursive SNARKitecture with Izaak Meckler from O(1)Labs (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/113)
Exploring the Fractal transparent SNARK construction (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/114)
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In this episode, we catch up with Sean Bowe and Daira Hopwood from the Electric Coin Company to chat about Halo, a recursive proof composition that doesn't require a trusted setup. We cover the efficiency techniques used in Halo such as "nested amortization", how the protocol was developed, what some of the key findings are, and how it fits in with the other recent SNARK-based protocols.
We touch on the following material:
Sean Bowe on SNARKs, Trusted Setups & Elliptic Curve Cryptography
https://github.com/daira/tweedle
Halo whitepaper
Endomorphism
Latest recursive SNARKitecture with Izaak Meckler from O(1)Labs
Exploring the Fractal transparent SNARK construction
If you like what we do:
Follow us on Twitter - @zeroknowledgefm
Join us on Telegram
Support our Gitcoin Grant
Support us on the ZKPatreon
Or directly here:
ETH: 0xC0FFEE1B5083230a5154F55f253B6b6ae8F29B1a
BTC: 1cafekGa3podM4fBxPSQc6RCEXQNTK8Zz
ZEC: t1R2bujRF3Hzte9ALHpMJvY8t5kb9ut9SpQ