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ZODA & The Accidental Computer

2025/2/19
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This week Anna) catches up with Nico), Guillermo) and Alex) from Bain Capital Crypto) to discuss two of their recent works; ZODA: Zero-Overhead Data Availability) by the trio and The Accidental Computer) by Alex & Guille. The group starts with a discussion about how papers like FRIDA and Foundations of Data Availability Sampling inspired ZODA and then cover the innovations presented in ZODA itself. They wrap up with a discussion about The Accidental Computer, and in doing so tease out some of the fundamental concepts in current ZK research.

 

Related links:

	- ZK Podcast: Disclosures)

	- ZODA: Zero-Overhead Data Availability) by Alex Evans, Guillermo Angeris and Nico Mohnblatt

	- FRIDA: Data Availability Sampling from FRI) by Mathias Hall-Andersen, Mark Simkin and Benedikt Wagner

	- Foundations of Data Availability Sampling) by Mathias Hall-Andersen, Mark Simkin and Benedikt Wagner

	- The Accidental Computer: Polynomial Commitments from Data Availability) by Alex Evans and Guillermo Angeris

	- Guille's Tweet “anon, what if I told you that you can prove the correctness of the largest celestia block in <200ms on a single core of an mba)”

	- Bain Capital Crypto Blog)

 


 

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