Zero Knowledge

In this week’s episode, Anna explores Halo 2 with Daira Hopwood and Str4d, cryptographic engineers at Electric Coin Company. They explored what new ideas Halo introduced and how Halo 2 built on these ideas, adding optimisations such as adding Plonk-ish arithmetization to take what was a breakthrough to a production ready proving system. This episode was recorded at Zcon3 in Vegas. Here are some links for this episode: Episode on Halo Episode recorded at Zcon0 ZK Whiteboard Sessions Episode with Sean Bowe Halo 2 explained Justin Drake on Polynomial Commitments Str4d’s talk at ZCon3 Daira’s talk at ZCon3 Ying Tong’s talk at ZCon3 Pratyush Mishra at Zcon3 The halo2 Book: Proving System The halo2 Book: Protocol The halo2 Book: Sinsemilla Check out ZK Whiteboard Sessions, produced by ZK Hack & powered by Polygon, a weekly educational series of interviews with ZK experts on the most important concepts and building blocks in ZK. If you are looking to jump into ZK professionally, check out the