ZK-News - 10th-16th June '24

ZK-News - 10th-16th June '24

✨ ZK-Newsflash! ✨

Here are the highlights of what happened in the ZK space last week, 10th - 16th June.

Our Co-founder and Head of Research, Diego Kingston, gave a fascinating talk on hash-based proof systems at ZuBerlin. πŸ“’

The talk delved into various aspects, including proof sizes, the benefit of not requiring trusted setups, and more.

Build on Starknet and get rewarded! πŸ–₯️

June 13 kicked off Starkhack, organized in collaboration with ETHGlobal, offering $150,000 in prizes.

This is a free online hackathon with many opportunities for builders.

Catnet: A custom Signet network that provides an environment for testing Bitcoin applications with the OP_CAT functionality enabled. ⚑

Here Abdelhamid Bakhta offers us the explorer.

Polygon Community Grants - Season 01 is here! πŸ“’

1 Billion POL unlocked over a decade in community grants program for Polygon builders

Applications are now open!

The Blockchain Trilemma: scalability, decentralization, and security. Can we have it all? ⛓️

zkSharding could be the answer.

=nil; Foundation has a great resource explaining how this technology tackles the challenge.

Cool paper to read. πŸ“—

Helger Lipmaa explores shortening the argument of the Groth16 zkSNARK for R1CS, proposing Polymath: Groth16 is not the Limit.

This opens up exciting possibilities for future applications.

Fascinating material posted on Bitcoin Magazine. ⚑

A conversation between the team at The Rollup and Orkun Kilic, co-founder of Citrea.

Educational content about building Bitcoin's first ZK rollup.

We shared an interesting Space with our partner Fluent. 🟩

Participants included:

βœ… Dino, Co-founder de Fluent.

βœ… Roberto CatalΓ‘n, Co-founder of Aligned.

βœ… Diego Kingston, Co-founder and Head of Research of Aligned.

Lambda Hack Week 2 is almost here! πŸ’»

4 days of hacking. Don't miss the chance to meet some of our team!

To provide educational material, we're offering a series of threads on various ZK-related concepts. 🧠

This thread focuses on ZK-SNARKs, exploring their origins and key advancements that led to today's technology.

If you want to learn more about Aligned and how we are accelerating Ethereum, read our whitepaper.

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