ZK-News - 21st-27th October '24

✨ ZK-Newsflash! ✨

Here are the highlights of what happened in the ZK space last week, 21th - 27th October.

Alignoors, we're thrilled to share an X Space with the Aligned Builders Hackathon judges. 🚀

This includes:

✅ Vanishree Rao, founder Fermah

✅ Nader Dabit, director of devrel EigenLayer

✅ Austin Griffith, founder BuidlGuidl

✅ dcbuilder, research engineer World

If you missed it, you can listen to the recording.

The Hackathon has been an incredible and enriching experience. We're very happy to have interacted with so many Alignoors and ZK enthusiasts.

Stay tuned for updates.

Get ready to test six Mina zkApps and infrastructure projects. 💜

Among the projects, we have:

✅ LuminaDEX.

✅ ZkNoid.

✅ ZKON Network.

✅ Protokit.

✅ Rust-based Mina node.

✅ o1js-blobstream (Celestia DA).

Don't miss this interesting opportunity to explore these projects.

Introducing Valida Rust Alpha Compiler, by Lita. 💻

This leverages the power of LLVM to bridge the gap between Rust and the Valida zkVM.

Developers can now write some Rust code and have it run on Valida.

Read the full announcement to see the list of examples tested, which included: Fibonacci, Conway’s Game of Life, and more!

Congrats to the Lita team.

A great new paper is now out! ARC: Accumulation for Reed–Solomon Codes. 🎉

The work is presented by:

✅ Benedik Bünz.

✅ Pratyush Mishra.

✅ Wilson Nguyen.

✅ William Wang.

The co-authors constructed two hash-based accumulation/folding schemes.

It's impressive to see this kind of progress and development.

Great work. Congratulations!

Buenos Aires is leading the way to future mass adoption of blockchain and ZK technologies by leveraging them for digital identity management. ⚡

This comes as a result of the announced integration of QuarkID, a ZKsync-powered decentralized identity solution.

This is a very interesting initiative and definitely a game changer for managing citizen data.

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