Summary

In this week’s episode, Anna (https://x.com/AnnaRRose) and Guille (https://x.com/GuilleAngeris) chat with Ying Tong Lai (https://x.com/therealyingtong) from Geometry Research (https://geometry.dev/) and Bryan Gillespie (https://x.com/bryan_gillespie) from Inversed Tech (https://inversed.tech/) about their latest research and works to date. They dive into the pair’s recent work ‘SoK: Programmable Privacy in Distributed Systems (https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/982)’, exploring the classifications and frameworks being introduced.
Here’s some additional links for this episode:
SoK: Programmable Privacy in Distributed Systems by Benarroch, Gillespie, Lai and Miller (https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/982)
Private Programmability in Zcash - Research Results and Community Discussion (https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/48016)
Zcash Halo2 GitHub (https://github.com/zcash/halo2)
Zk0x02 - An intro to Zcash and zkSNARKs - Ariel Gabizon (Zcash) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kx4cIkCY2EA)
Moving SNARKs from the generic to algebraic group model by Ariel Gabizon (https://medium.com/@arielgabizon/moving-snarks-from-the-generic-to-algebraic-group-model-56549d60b90d)
Explaining SNARKs Part I: Homomorphic Hidings by Ariel Gabizon (https://electriccoin.co/blog/snark-explain/)
Differential Privacy in Constant Function Market Makers by Chitra, Angeris and Evans (https://fc22.ifca.ai/preproceedings/30.pdf)
A Note on Privacy in Constant Function Market Makers by Angeris, Evans and Chitra (https://angeris.github.io/papers/cfmm-privacy.pdf)
On Privacy Notions in Anonymous Communication by Kuhn, Beck, Schiffner, Jorswieck, and Strufe (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1812.05638)
ZK Hack Montreal has been announced for Aug 9 - 11! Apply to join the hackathon here (https://zk-hack-montreal.devfolio.co/).
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