Episode 145: Circom & Hermez with Jordi Baylina

In this week's episode, Anna and Fredrik catch up with Jordi Baylina (https://twitter.com/jbaylina?lang=en), co-founder of Iden3 (https://iden3.io), the creator of Circom & SnarkJS. They chat about his work in the ecosystem, building zk circuits and the recently announced Hermez, a new zkrollup with a novel proof-of-donation mechanism that will redistribute 40% of earnings to Ethereum-based community projects.
Jordi has an amazing story, which we got to explore in this episode, so thanks again Jordi for being on the show!
Here are some relevant links:
Jordi's talk about Circom at the zkSummit (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9TJa1hVsKA)
Iden3 Website (https://iden3.io)
Circom on Github (https://github.com/iden3/circom)
Hermez Website (https://hermez.io) & Twitter (https://twitter.com/hermez_network)
His talk on Liquid Democracy at Web3 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2L-8ZqZ7CI)
Our previous episode about the DAO hack with Griff Green (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/29)
Thank you to this week's sponsor Parity Technologies (https://www.parity.io/)
Parity is currently looking to fill a number of job positions including many on the engineering side.
As an engineer at Parity, you would get to write Rust all day, be at the forefront of creating and shaping the decentralized web and hopefully also dig into some cool zero knowledge crypto tech! The best way to get noticed for this role is to familiarise yourself with Substrate (https://www.parity.io/substrate/) - the platform built by Parity to make building blockchains much much easier. So go check out the substrate libraries and then head over to parity.io/jobs (https://www.parity.io/jobs/) to find out more
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In this week's episode, Anna and Fredrik catch up with Jordi Baylina, co-founder of Iden3, the creator of Circom & SnarkJS. They chat about his work in the ecosystem, building zk circuits and the recently announced Hermez, a new zkrollup with a novel proof-of-donation mechanism that will redistribute 40% of earnings to Ethereum-based community projects.

Jordi has an amazing story, which we got to explore in this episode, so thanks again Jordi for being on the show!

Here are some relevant links:

Jordi's talk about Circom at the zkSummit

Iden3 Website

Circom on Github

Hermez Website & Twitter

His talk on Liquid Democracy at Web3

Our previous episode about the DAO hack with Griff Green

Thank you to this week's sponsor Parity Technologies

Parity is currently looking to fill a number of job positions including many on the engineering side.

As an engineer at Parity, you would get to write Rust all day, be at the forefront of creating and shaping the decentralized web and hopefully also dig into some cool zero knowledge crypto tech! The best way to get noticed for this role is to familiarise yourself with Substrate - the platform built by Parity to make building blockchains much much easier. So go check out the substrate libraries and then head over to parity.io/jobs to find out more

Thanks again Parity for sponsoring this episode!

If you like what we do:

Follow us on Twitter - @zeroknowledgefm

Join us on Telegram

Catch us on Youtube

Read up on the r/ZKPodcast subreddit

Give us feedback! https://forms.gle/iKMSrVtcAn6BByH6A

Support our Gitcoin Grant

Support us on the ZKPatreon

Or directly here:

ETH: 0xC0FFEE1B5083230a5154F55f253B6b6ae8F29B1a

BTC: 1cafekGa3podM4fBxPSQc6RCEXQNTK8Zz

ZEC:

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