ZK-News - 22nd-28th July '24

ZK-News - 22nd-28th July '24

✨ ZK-Newsflash! ✨

Here are the highlights of what happened in the ZK space last week, 22nd - 28th July.

Interested in TEEs and ZK? We co-hosted this Space with Automata Network to discuss the topic in more detail. 🎉

Speakers from:

Ten Protocol.

Phala Network.

Gwyneth.

Vanishree Rao.

✅ And more.

If you missed it, you can listen to the recording here:

Our podcast with Bitcoin Suisse is now available! 📢

Two of our co-founders, Roberto Catalán and Diego Kingston, discuss Aligned's mission and explain the technical details needed to reach our goal.

You can watch it on YouTube or listen to it on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

‘Exploring circle STARKs’ by Vitalik Buterin. ⭐️

Vitalik shared an insightful article where he explains this amazing concept in detail.

If you are looking for educational material, this article is for you.

A true delight for math enthusiasts. 💚

‘An introduction to circle STARKs’ by our co-founder, Diego Kingston. 🚀

This article will help you understand not only the work of Shahar Papini, David Levit, and Ulrich Haböck on circle STARKs, but also several cryptographic concepts in general.

Amazing work! 🫡

Another day, another milestone for StarkWare. ⚡️

This time, an interesting material about STARK over Bitcoin was provided: The path to general computation on Bitcoin?

Bitcoin and ZK are getting closer very fast!

Dive into the details here:

‘httpz’ or ‘https’? That is the question: Mina responds. 💜

Mina shared an interesting article introducing ‘httpz’: The Internet you can trust, uncovering its enormous potential.

Spoiler: It comes with meme material 😉

Elias Tazartes, co-founder and co-CTO/CEO of Kakarot, explained exciting plans for the future of the project. 🥕

✅ Biggest challenges?

✅ Long-term vision?

All of this and more in this Q&A with StarkWare.

We are very proud to be a partner of this amazing team! 🫂

Big news from Polygon and Irreducible: they are building a zkVM based on Towers of Binary Fields! 🤯

This explosive combination joins Polygon Labs' expertise in designing ZK-powered L2s with Irreducible's mathematical expertise as the team behind Binius.

BitcoinOS has announced they have verified a ZK-proof on Bitcoin Mainnet! ⚡️

ZK is spreading everywhere.

Congratulations to BitcoinOS team.

More details below.

The Elastic Chain in a nutshell! ✅

In just three tweets, ZKsync explains to us what it is, why it is “Elastic” and the features it allows for.

Pretty interesting material regarding the evolution of ZKsync.

Discover it all here:

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