ZK Newsletter for 2024-08-14
This release details reproducing and exploiting ZK circuit vulnerabilities, a primer on Aleo program security, disscusion on Accelerating Telos's zkEVM and methods for obtaining pairings in a zkEVM.
Top picks
Reproducing and Exploiting ZK Circuit Vulnerabilities - article by Stefanos Chaliasos and Chenyang Yu. (09.08.2024)
Exploring Leo: A Primer on Aleo Program Security - article by Suneal Gong. (07.08.2024)
Meet Zarko Gvozdenovic: Accelerating Telos’ zkEVM Advancements. (07.08.2024)
How to get pairings in a zkEVM by Héctor Masip Ardevol. (13.08.2024)
Reading materials
noname 2.0: Unlocking Numeric Generics, Folding Schemes, and a Playground - article by ZKSecurity. (08.08.2024)
Unlocking the Power of Zero-Knowledge Proofs - article by Jon Stojan Media. (09.08.2024)
Exploring Leo: A Primer on Aleo Program Security - article by Suneal Gong. (07.08.2024)
Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge from LPN and MQ - academic text by Quang Dao, Aayush Jain and Zhengzhong Jin. (09.08.2024)
Reproducing and Exploiting ZK Circuit Vulnerabilities - article by Stefanos Chaliasos and Chenyang Yu. (09.08.2024)
Efficient (Non-)Membership Tree from Multicollision-Resistance with Applications to Zero-Knowledge Proofs - academic text by Maksym Petkus. (09.08.2024)
Accelerating Client-Side Cryptography with WebGPU - article by Penumbra. (09.08.2024)
SNARK Verification on a Bitcoin Mainnet - article by Wei Zhang. (09.08.2024)
zk-Promises: Making Zero-Knowledge Objects Accept the Call for Banning and Reputation - academic text by Maurice Shih, Michael Rosenberg, Hari Kailad and Ian Miers. (12.08.2024)
Zero-Knowledge Proofs For Dummies by a Dummie - article by Djru Patel. (12.08.2024)
SZKP: A Scalable Accelerator Architecture for Zero-Knowledge Proofs - academic text by Alhad Daftardar, Brandon Reagen and Siddharth Garg. (12.08.2024)
AES-based CCR Hash with High Security and Its Application to Zero-Knowledge Proofs - academic text by Hongrui Cui, Chun Guo, Xiao Wang, Chenkai Weng, Kang Yang and Yu Yu. (12.08.2024)
An incomplete guide to zk-KYC apps - article by Tisura. (13.08.2024)
Risc0
RISC Zero collaborates with Aragon Project. (08.08.2024)
NovaNet
zkAds wins price from NovaNet at zkHack. (12.08.2024)
Watching materials
Meet Zarko Gvozdenovic: Accelerating Telos’ zkEVM Advancements. (07.08.2024)
Swastik Kopparty: FRI and STARKs via an Elliptic Curve Fast Fourier Transform (ECFFT). (07.08.2024)
Eli Ben Sasson: Circle STARK and Favorite Open Problems. (07.08.2024)
Recursive ZKP and Trade-offs: Keynote by Yutaka Hashimoto at PlasmaCon 2024. (07.08.2024)
House of ZK #2: Veteran of Cryptography, Jeroen van der Graaf, Ph.D. (08.08.2024)
Building the Future of Ethereum with Scroll’s zkEVM: Past, Present and Future | Ye Zhang. (12.08.2024)
How to get pairings in a zkEVM by Héctor Masip Ardevol. (13.08.2024)
d3s1-1 Invited Talk: On the round-complexity of secure multi-party computation - Michele Ciampi. (13.08.2024)
d1s3-2 Scalable Multiparty Computation from Non-linear Secret Sharing - Mingyuan Wang. (13.08.2024)
Listening materials
Untangling Web3 Podcast episode - Smart Contracts 101. (07.08.2024)
Next Steps for Web 3: A Deep Dive into Modularity, Chain Abstraction, and Clearing Layer. (07.08.2024)
Web3 with a16z cryopto Podcast episode - Token Do’s and Dont’s. (08.08.2024)
MPC
MPC-Minimized Secure LLM Inference - academic text by Deevashwer Rathee, Dacheng Li, Ion Stoica, Hao Zhang and Raluca Popa. (07.08.2024)
Updates of ZK projects
dYdX - Introducing The Market Map. (08.08.2024)
Dusk Engineering Update: July. (08.08.2024)
The Citrea Recap – July. (09.08.2024)
Introducing EigenDA Base Rewards. (12.08.2024)
dYdX Unlimited: Coming This Fall. (13.08.2024)
Conferences
ZK Hack Montreal - hackathon on August 2024 in Montreal, Canada.
Upcoming events
Web3 Summit 2024 - summit on August 2024 in Berlin, Germany.
ETH Warsaw - conference and hackathon on September 2024 in Warsaw, Poland.
zkWarsaw Day 2024 - event on September 2024 in Warsaw, Poland.
Korea Blockchain Week 2024 - conference week on September 2024 in Seoul, South Korea.
ETHGlobal Singapore - conference on September 2024 in Singapore.
ETH Rome - hackathon on October 2024 in Rome, Paris.
World Blockchain Summit 2024 - summit on October 2024 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
ETHGlobal San Francisco - conference on October 2024 in San Francisco, USA.
zkSummit12 - a summit on Zero Knowledge on October 2024 in Lisbon, Portugal.
European WEB3 summit 2024 - summit on November 2024 in Brussels, Belgium.
DevCon 2024 - Devcon for new Ethereum explorers on November 2024 in Bangkok, Thailand.
ETHGlobal Bangkok - conference on November 2024 in Bangkok, Thailand.
TCC 2024 - conference on December 2024 in Milan, Italy.
The Ethereum Community Conference 2025 - conference in Summer 2025 in Cannes, France.
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