Listen "ZK Research Update with Joe Bonneau"
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Summary
In this week’s episode, Anna and Guille catch up with Joe Bonneau, Assistant Professor at NYU and Research Partner at a16z crypto research. They discuss the research Joe has been working on since he was last on the show in 2019, including Naysayer proofs, Zero-Knowledge Middleboxes, Sealed-Bid Auctions, and other ZK-related research projects to date.
Here’s some additional links for this episode:
Episode 103: Exploring VDFs with Joseph Bonneau
Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies by Narayanan, Bonneau, Felten, Miller and Goldfeder
Verifiable Delay Functions Dan Boneh, Joseph Bonneau, Benedikt Bunz, and Ben Fisch
Naysayer proofs by Seres, Glaeser and Bonneau
Sealed-Bid Auctions
DARPA SIEVE Project
Zombie: Middleboxes that Don’t Snoop by Zhang, DeStefano, Arun, Bonneau, Grubbs and Walfish
Zero-Knowledge Middleboxes by Grubbs, Arun, Zhang, Bonneau and Walfish
jbonneau.com
Riggs: Decentralized Sealed-Bid Auctions by Tyagi, Arun, Freitag, Wahby and Mazières
Cicada: A framework for private non-interactive on-chain auctions and voting by Glaeser, Seres, Zhu, and Bonneau
Atomic and Fair Data Exchange via Blockchain by Tas, Seres, Zhang, Melczer, Kelkar, Bonneau and Nikolaenko
Zero Knowledge Summit (zkSummit) 2024: Field notes
ZK Hack Montreal is happening on Aug 9 - 11. Don’t miss your chance to join, apply now to participate in the hackathon here.
zkSummit12 is happening in Lisbon on Oct 8th! Applications to speak or attend are now open at zksummit.com, speaker applications close Aug 15th and early bird tickets for...
In this week’s episode, Anna and Guille catch up with Joe Bonneau, Assistant Professor at NYU and Research Partner at a16z crypto research. They discuss the research Joe has been working on since he was last on the show in 2019, including Naysayer proofs, Zero-Knowledge Middleboxes, Sealed-Bid Auctions, and other ZK-related research projects to date.
Here’s some additional links for this episode:
Episode 103: Exploring VDFs with Joseph Bonneau
Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies by Narayanan, Bonneau, Felten, Miller and Goldfeder
Verifiable Delay Functions Dan Boneh, Joseph Bonneau, Benedikt Bunz, and Ben Fisch
Naysayer proofs by Seres, Glaeser and Bonneau
Sealed-Bid Auctions
DARPA SIEVE Project
Zombie: Middleboxes that Don’t Snoop by Zhang, DeStefano, Arun, Bonneau, Grubbs and Walfish
Zero-Knowledge Middleboxes by Grubbs, Arun, Zhang, Bonneau and Walfish
jbonneau.com
Riggs: Decentralized Sealed-Bid Auctions by Tyagi, Arun, Freitag, Wahby and Mazières
Cicada: A framework for private non-interactive on-chain auctions and voting by Glaeser, Seres, Zhu, and Bonneau
Atomic and Fair Data Exchange via Blockchain by Tas, Seres, Zhang, Melczer, Kelkar, Bonneau and Nikolaenko
Zero Knowledge Summit (zkSummit) 2024: Field notes
ZK Hack Montreal is happening on Aug 9 - 11. Don’t miss your chance to join, apply now to participate in the hackathon here.
zkSummit12 is happening in Lisbon on Oct 8th! Applications to speak or attend are now open at zksummit.com, speaker applications close Aug 15th and early bird tickets for...
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