Fredrik Harrysson
Co-Host of Zero Knowledge
Programmer, Gamer, Hiker, Traveller
Blog: http://medium.com/@folsen
Core Developer @ParityTech
Fredrik Harrysson has hosted 114 Episodes.
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Episode 122: ZKPs, Audits & Security with Benjamin Perez from Trail of Bits
March 25th, 2020 | 54 mins 2 secs
blockchain, cryptographic vulnerability, cryptography, security, technical audit, whitepaper, zero knowledge
In this week's episode, we chat with Benjamin Perez from Trail of Bits about the evolution of the crypto tech auditing business, the new challenges that emerge in zero knowledge proof systems regarding security, some of the recent bugs and vulnerabilities found in zkp systems and more!
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Episode 121: Urbit with Galen Wolf-Pauly from Tlon
March 18th, 2020 | 1 hr 17 mins
decentralisation, distributed systems, operating system, peer-to-peer, tech, urbit
In this episode, we meet with Galen Wolf-Pauly from the Tlon Corporation to discuss the project Urbit. Urbit is an encrypted peer-to-peer network comprised of a deterministic operating system (Urbit OS / Arvo) and a secure, global identity layer (Urbit ID / Azimuth). The Urbit contributors have created new stack, built from the ground up as an integrated system with a focus on user experience.
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Episode 120: ZKPs in Ethereum with Vitalik Buterin & Justin Drake
March 11th, 2020 | 1 hr 12 mins
blockchain, eth2.0, ethereum, privacy, research, scaling, tech, zero knowledge proofs
In this episode, we catch up with Justin Drake and Vitalik Buterin from the Ethereum Foundation to chat about how zero knowledge proof systems are being used throughout the Eth1x and Eth2.0 stacks. We look at their applications for privacy and scalability throughout layers 1, 1.5 and 2, as well as explore some other emerging applications.
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Episode 119: Alistair and Jeff from Web3 on ZKPs & more
March 4th, 2020 | 1 hr 1 min
cryptography, isogenies, multi-party computation, polkadot, web3 foundation, zero knowledge, zero knowledge proofs
In this week's episode, we sit down with Alistair Stewart and Jeff Burges, researchers at the Web3 Foundation, to dig into what they are working on, what they are thinking about at the moment, and how zero knowledge proofs can be used throughout the Polkadot ecosystem.
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Episode 118: Tarun and James talk Flashloans & more
February 26th, 2020 | 1 hr 10 mins
blockchain, decentralised finance, defi, ethereum, evm, flashloan, flashloans, near protocol, proof-of-stake
In this week's episode, we catch up with our friends Tarun Chitra and James Prestwich at the Stanford Blockchain Conference. We chat about the Flashloan phenomenon & the recent arbitrage 'exploit'. We also catch up about the known challenges facing PoS systems, what EVM support means on other chains & more!
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Episode 117: Isogenies with Luca De Feo
February 19th, 2020 | 1 hr 23 secs
blockchain, cryptography, isogenies, math, morphisms, tech education, vdfs, verifiable delay functions
In this week’s episode, we dive into Isogenies - a topic at the cutting edge of cryptography. We look at how they are related to VDFs and randomness generation. Our guest, Luca de Feo, one of the co-inventor of SIDH, helps us get an understanding for what Isogenies - or morphisms of algebraic groups - really are.
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Episode 116: zkSync and Redshift: Matter Labs update
February 12th, 2020 | 56 mins 26 secs
blockchain, ethereum, matter labs, redshift, sidechain, zero knowledge proofs, zkrollup, zksnarks, zksync
In this week's episode of the podcast, we catch up with Alex Glukowski of Matter Labs to hear about zkSync, the latest iteration of their zkRollup implementation built to be a scaling and privacy engine for Ethereum. We also touch on the Redshift protocol, a new transparent zkSNARK system that emerged as a result of their work on this system.
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Episode 115: Cosmos, IBC and ZKPs with Chris Goes
February 5th, 2020 | 1 hr 2 mins
cosmos network, cryptography, ibc, interoperability, zero knowledge proofs, zkproofs
In this week’s episode, we catch up with Christopher Goes, IBC Lead at Tendermint. We learn a bit more about the Cosmos Network ecosystem and his work on IBC. We then focus in on how he is thinking about zero knowledge in the context of IBC like-interoperability constructions. We explore some of the ways in which zkps could be incorporated into different schemes for interoperability - including bridging, lightclient constructions, validity proofs and more.
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Episode 114: Exploring the Fractal transparent SNARK construction
January 29th, 2020 | 50 mins 51 secs
cryptography, fractal protocol, math, recursive snarks, uc berkeley, zero knowledge, zksnarks
This week, we explore the Fractal transparent SNARK construction with its authors Dev Ojha and Nick Spooner - both students of Alessandro Chiesa at UC Berkeley. In this episode, We explore how Fractal works, how it improves on some of the earlier work on Sonic and Marlin, how it borrows from but differentiates itself from STARKs, as well as what they discovered while working on this paper about recursive SNARKs and what makes that property possible.
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Episode 113: Latest recursive SNARKitecture with Izaak Meckler from O(1)Labs
January 22nd, 2020 | 51 mins 49 secs
blockchain, coda protocol, cryptography, privacy, recursive snarks, snark, zero knowledge proof, zksnarks
In this week’s episode, we catch up with Izaak Meckler from 0(1) Labs to talk about launching a recursive snark based incentivised test net, updates on the working SNARKitecture, a recap of recursive SNARKs and a look at what's next for the project.
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Episode 112: Dive into Plonk!
January 15th, 2020 | 55 mins 29 secs
aztec protocol, cryptography, lagrange-bases, plonk, polynomial commitments, zero knowledge
In this week’s episode, we learn more about Plonk with Ariel Gabizon and Zac Williamson from Aztec. PLONK is an efficient, universal SNARK construction. We explore what distinguishes Plonk from some other other new constructions including their focus on Lagrange-bases to deconstruct complex problem statements into simple polynomial identities.
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Episode 111: Mixers with Tornado.cash
January 8th, 2020 | 1 hr 1 min
blockchain, cryptocurrency, ethereum, mixer, privacy, technology
In this week’s episode, we chat with the Roman Storm and Roman Semanov from Tornado.cash all about mixers. We explore what they are used for and how they work, how Zero Knowledge can be incorporated to provide more privacy, what the challenges are and what the future holds for the Tornado.Cash project.
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Episode 110: So long 2019! What's next?
January 1st, 2020 | 48 mins 30 secs
2020, blockchain, cryptography, privacy technology, year in review, zero knowledge proofs
In this end of year episode, we chat about what we've learned in 2019, some of our favourite episodes, this year's explosion in ZK research and what we are looking forward to in 2020!
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Episode 109: Exploring use-cases for zkps and zk standards with QEDIT
December 25th, 2019 | 1 hr 5 mins
blockchain, privacy software, qedit, standardisation, tech talk, zero knowledge research, zkproofs
In this week’s episode, Anna sits down with Daniel Benarroch and Aviv Zohar from QEDIT - a privacy software startup focused on bringing Zero Knowledge to enterprise customers. We chat about the goals of the company, some of the emerging use cases and the zkproof standardisation efforts.
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Episode 108: Catch up with Zaki Manian from Tendermint
December 18th, 2019 | 55 mins 39 secs
blockchain, blockchain tech, cosmos, pos, proof-of-stake, silicon valley, tendermint, validator
This week we catch up with Zaki Manian, Director at Tendermint and co-founder of the Iqlusion Validator. We chat about the blockchain scene in Silicon Valley, SF's love of DeFi, the challenge of balancing pragmatism and regulation with the decentralised ideology, the nuances of working on a live PoS system, the wins of 2019 and what is on the horizon!
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Episode 107: Centrifuge and zkSNARKs in action with Lucas Vogelsang
December 11th, 2019 | 1 hr 1 min
blockchain financing, circom, decentralisation, defi, financial services, fintech, privacy, zksnarks, zokrates
In this week’s episode, we catch-up our friend Lucas Vogelsang from Centrifuge. Centrifuge is an open, decentralised platform to connect the global financial supply chain. We chat about the journey Lucas took to co-founding this company, how privacy plays a role in his thinking and we discover what it means to be a project building with zkSNARKs today.