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. 📒
The talk delved into various aspects, including proof sizes, the benefit of not requiring trusted setups, and more.
Catch our head of research @zkdiegokingston talk about how hash-based proof systems despite having larger proof sizes provide efficiency & speed at proving general computations without needing setup ceremonies will take over elliptic-curve-based systems at @ZuBerlinCity… pic.twitter.com/FIO80z2gOB
— geeny (@Geeny616) June 14, 2024
Build on Starknet and get rewarded! 🖥️
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.
StarkHack kicks off today with over 💰 $150,000 in prizes up for grabs for hackers looking to learn, build, and grow.
— ETHGlobal (@ETHGlobal) June 13, 2024
👉 See the prizes: https://t.co/yGEgZnDHWy
👉 Last few spots to join: https://t.co/kFUSivJqkX
Let's dive into the prizes 🧵
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.
Gmeow Catnet! 🐺-😺
— A₿del ∞/21M (@dimahledba) June 10, 2024
Catnet is a custom Bitcoin signet with OP_CAT enabled, and will be used to test implementation of Bitcoin Circle STARK Verifier.
Faucet coming soon 👀
Explorer: https://t.co/DrJjv5HY0j pic.twitter.com/qtUviQRkiQ
Polygon Community Grants - Season 01 is here! 📢
1 Billion POL unlocked over a decade in community grants program for Polygon builders
Applications are now open!
1,000,000,000 POL over 10 years, unlocked in grant funding.
— Polygon | Aggregated (@0xPolygon) June 11, 2024
Season 01 of the Community Grants Program is here, with 35 million MATIC allocated towards funding the best projects across the Polygon and Ethereum landscape.
builders, this one’s for you... pic.twitter.com/esNzImAznk
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.
Can a blockchain be scalable without compromising on decentralization and security?
— =nil; Foundation (@nil_foundation) June 13, 2024
Maybe—with zkSharding.
Read more. ↓https://t.co/SM7KgVd85t
Cool paper to read. 📗
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.
Well, this happened (accepted to Crypto 2024)https://t.co/OyMUJ0pD0O pic.twitter.com/d3z5klM2Ak
— Helger Lipmaa 🇺🇦 (@HLipmaa) June 12, 2024
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.
Here's a must-read for all Citreans out there 🤓
— Citrea (@citrea_xyz) June 12, 2024
This article featured in @BitcoinMagazine covers it all – from Citrea's motivation to build Bitcoin's first ZK rollup to its vision of modular scalability!
🧡 Big shoutout to @therollupco for the article!https://t.co/wrQ8ko9R2Y
We shared an interesting Space with our partner Fluent. 🟩
Participants included:
✅ Roberto Catalán, Co-founder of Aligned.
✅ Diego Kingston, Co-founder and Head of Research of Aligned.
— Fluent (@fluentxyz) June 13, 2024
Lambda Hack Week 2 is almost here! 💻
4 days of hacking. Don't miss the chance to meet some of our team!
Prepare yourself for 4 days of pure hacking: Interoperability, Cryptography, ZK Apps & Infra, and on-chain gaming.
— Fede’s intern 🥊 (@fede_intern) June 12, 2024
Don’t miss out on Lambda Hack Week during @EthCC.
Just code, no bullshit.
Thanks @zksync @alignedlayer @nil_foundation @0xPolygon @CelestiaOrg @cartridge_gg… pic.twitter.com/lFrvJpkmwU
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.
What are ZK-SNARKS?
— Aligned (@alignedlayer) June 11, 2024
ZK-SNARKS have gained considerable attention recently, due to their broad utility in areas such as blockchain scalability, identity mechanisms, verifiable machine learning, and fighting against misinformation and fake news.
🧵 Learn more: pic.twitter.com/czPkob8RNb
If you want to learn more about Aligned and how we are accelerating Ethereum, read our whitepaper.
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