Zero Knowledge

In this week's episode, Anna catches up with Tarun Chitra (Gauntlet Networks), James Prestwich (Summa) and Georgios Konstantopoulos on the last day of Devcon5 in Osaka. In this special 99th episode, we cover a broad range of topics from their Devcon take-aways, emerging ideas in the ecosystem, the latest in PoS systems, Roll-up and DeFi, to the explosion in zero knowledge research, and more. We mention the following episodes, presentations and articles in our talk: James Prestwich talks Smart Contracts Tarun Chitra on Statistical modeling of PoS systems Light clients & ZKPs with Celo Ariah Klages-Mundt - (In)Stability for the Blockchain: Deleveraging Spirals and Stablecoin Attacks Designing Smart Contracts With Free Will Research paper: A model for Bitcoin’s security and the declining block subsidy - Hasu, Prestwich, Curtis On the Frontiers of Validation with Bison Trails Thank you to this week's sponsor Trail of Bits Trail of Bits shared their review of this year's IACR Crypto Confer