Summary

This week, Anna catches up with cohosts, Tarun), Nico) and Guillermo) to do a look back at the zk research and applications that came out in 2024. They go on to discuss the challenges facing the ecosystem. And they wrap with a brief look forward, covering what to expect in ZK in 2025.

This will be the last ep of 2024, thank you for joining us this year!

Further Reading:

• Circle STARKs by Haböck, Levit and Papini)
• StarkWare Unveils New 'Stwo' Cryptographic Prover That's 'Blazingly Fast')
• ZK12: WHIR: Reed-Solomon Proximity Testing with Super-Fast Verification by Eylon Yogev)
• Episode 290: Exploring, Teaching and Auditing ZK with David Wong)
• Episode 345: Latest ZK Research with Dan Boneh)
• LatticeFold: A Lattice-based Folding Scheme and its Applications to Succinct Proof Systems by Dan Boneh and Binyi Chen)
• LaBRADOR: Compact Proofs for R1CS from Module-SIS? by Ward Beullens and Gregor Seiler)
• Quantum Algorithms for Lattice Problems by Yilei Chen)
• Episode 325: Web Proofs with Tracy from Pluto)
• ZODA: Zero-Overhead Data Availability by Evans, Mohnblatt and Angeris)

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