Episode 184: Anoma’s Adrian Brink on Validity Predicates, Ferveo DKG & More

This week Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) chats with Adrian Brink (https://twitter.com/adrian_brink), co-founder of the Anoma Network and long-time crypto builder. Adrian explains all there is to know about the new privacy-centric network, diving into concepts like fractal scaling, the validity predicate-based account model, the solution against front-running in Ferveo & much more.
Here are some links for the episode:
CowSwap & DAO Tech with Gnosis’s Martin Köppelmann, Zero Knowledge episode 183 (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/183)
Through the Cosmos Stargate Upgrade, Zero Knowledge episode 174 (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/174)
Cosmos, IBC and ZKPs with Chris Goes, Zero Knowledge episode 115 (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/115)
Trusted Setup Ceremonies Explored, Zero Knowledge episode 133 (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/133)
Threshold Decryption for mempool privacy with Dev Ojha, ZKV Cosmos Privacy & ZKP showcase (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7q_uvvKmqrY&list=PLj80z0cJm8QGNPbPJ2adQhN5W890O7YMr)
The Wyvern protocol (https://wyvernprotocol.com) mentioned by Adrian.
The Plumo trusted setup ceremony (https://celo.org/plumo) (phase 2 happening soon) mentioned by Anna
Anoma’s Whitepaper (https://anoma.network/papers/whitepaper.pdf) and blog posts (https://anoma.network/blog).
The next zkSessions is scheduled for June 23 and will focus on DAOs and NFTs, in the context of privacy and zkps. This will also be a special event where the community will discuss the potential of a ZK DAO!
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This week Anna chats with Adrian Brink, co-founder of the Anoma Network and long-time crypto builder. Adrian explains all there is to know about the new privacy-centric network, diving into concepts like fractal scaling, the validity predicate-based account model, the solution against front-running in Ferveo & much more.

Here are some links for the episode:

CowSwap & DAO Tech with Gnosis’s Martin Köppelmann, Zero Knowledge episode 183
Through the Cosmos Stargate Upgrade, Zero Knowledge episode 174
Cosmos, IBC and ZKPs with Chris Goes, Zero Knowledge episode 115
Trusted Setup Ceremonies Explored, Zero Knowledge episode 133
Threshold Decryption for mempool privacy with Dev Ojha, ZKV Cosmos Privacy & ZKP showcase
The Wyvern protocol mentioned by Adrian.
The Plumo trusted setup ceremony (phase 2 happening soon) mentioned by Anna
Anoma’s Whitepaper and blog posts.

The next zkSessions is scheduled for June 23 and will focus on DAOs and NFTs, in the context of privacy and zkps. This will also be a special event where the community will discuss the potential of a ZK DAO!

Sign up for the zkSessions here: https://hopin.com/events/zksessions-daos-nfts

Today’s episode is sponsored by EY Blockchain. EY is committed to building a better working world on the public Ethereum blockchain with robust privacy technologies, like zero-knowledge proofs. EY believes blockchain technology will be the glue that knits together a productive global business ecosystem. To learn more about EYs products and services, visit them at https://blockchain.ey.com or check out their open source contributions at https://github.com/eyblockchain.

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