ZK-News - 29th July-4th August '24
✨ ZK-Newsflash! ✨
Here are the highlights of what happened in the ZK space last week, 29th July - 4th August.
We posted a recap of our highlights for July. ✅
New partnerships, X spaces, podcasts, events, and original technical content.
If you only read one thread today - make it this one!
The past month has been full of exciting updates for Aligned. 🎉
— Aligned (@alignedlayer) August 2, 2024
Check out this thread for a recap of our highlights!
✅ New partnerships.
✅ Multiple spaces and podcasts.
✅ Our participation in various events.
✅ And technical material.
Enjoy!
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Big news from Starknet, who announced their SHARP v6.0 upgrade! 🎉
This upgrade introduces several new features:
✅ Applicative recursion: Allowing decoupling L2 block frequency from L1 costs.
✅ Rust implementation.
✅ And new arithmetic circuit builtin.
We are excited to announce SHARP v6.0 upgrade! 💅
— Starknet 🐺🐱 (@Starknet) July 30, 2024
This major upgrade introduces several powerful features:
1⃣ Applicative Recursion:
This feature allows decoupling L2 block frequency from L1 costs.
Public Starknet will use this in the v0.13.2 upgrade to significantly reduce… pic.twitter.com/rYo2Q3fQO3
Ingonyama & Starknet Foundation announced a partnership focused on prover infrastructure for Starknet.
StarkWare currently holds the world record for hashes-proven-per-second, but they plan to break their own record by running Stwo end-to-end on an NVIDIA GPU using ICICLE!
Ingonyama X Starknet Strategic Partnership
— Ingonyama (@Ingo_zk) August 2, 2024
As of today, Stwo prover by @StarkWareLtd holds the world record for prover speed with a whopping 620,000 Poseidon2 hashes proven per second on an M3 laptop 🤯
We aim to break this record by running Stwo end-to-end on an @nvidia GPU… pic.twitter.com/WYPLcd4SvD
Secret Network's Confidential Computing Layer is now integrated with Kakarot. 🥕
With this partnership, Secret Network will provide Kakarot with several tooling and documentation.
This unlocks new Decentralized Confidential Computing capabilities for Kakarot dApps.
🥕Decentralized Confidential Computing(DeCC) on Kakarot!
— Kakarot ZK-EVM (@KakarotZkEvm) July 31, 2024
We are thrilled to partner with @SecretNetwork to unlock new, powerful applications on our chain using Secret’s confidential computing tooling.
We invite all builders on our testnet to explore this solution and develop… https://t.co/xUA1h0LcyE
Want to learn more about Lita? This video is for you.
- Learn about key considerations in Valida zkVM design.
- Comparison between Lita's custom ISA zkVM and other general-purpose ISA zkVMs.
- And more. Thanks to Ventali Tan & Daniel Dore for this amazing content.
Lita Explained.
— Lita Engineering (@lita_xyz) July 30, 2024
Dive into our chat with @ventalitan & @thesecretdore on:
- Primer on zkVMs
- Design considerations
- Lita vs the rest
- General purpose vs ZK-optimized zkVM
Thanks @BrianSeong99, @0xAbix and @adidshaft from @0xPolygon for hosting!https://t.co/ctRRrlEGaP
ZK in the Cloud: Polyhedra and Google are launching Proof Cloud into open beta. 💻
"Proof Cloud addresses the surging demand for fast, cost-effective ZK technology by leveraging Google's robust infrastructure."
A very positive sign for the growth of ZK. 👀
🚨Polyhedra and Google Cloud are launching Proof Cloud in open beta! 🚨
— Polyhedra Network (@PolyhedraZK) July 31, 2024
Proof Cloud addresses the surging demand for fast, cost-effective ZK technology by leveraging Google's robust infrastructure. https://t.co/rBlz496w4a
ZK Fest has begun, hosted by ZKsync. 📢
This is a six week event, running from August 5th to September 13th.
For more details, check their announcement.
Sync to the beat with ZK Fest 🎶
— ZKsync (∎, ∆) (@zksync) August 2, 2024
Dive into 6 weeks of non-stop bangers from 40+ ZKsync projects and listen to the hits across gaming, NFTs, DeFi, and the Elastic Chain.
Contests. Game nights. AMAs. Prizes.
Get ready to rock 🎸 https://t.co/Z4bKnIMlCf pic.twitter.com/520acWcmFg
LatticeFold, a joint work introduced by Binyi Chen and Dan Boneh, is updated. 🔎
This is the first lattice-based folding scheme whose security depends on the Module Short Integer Solution (MSIS) problem.
Great work!
LatticeFold is updated: https://t.co/fgLvPwW5F5
— Binyi Chen (@Charles_Chen533) July 30, 2024
We add an optimized folding scheme for CCS relation in Sect. 4.3 (thanks @srinathtv for bringing up the question of batching sumchecks). We also update our knowledge proof to deal with k-to-1 lattice folding where k > 2.
‘Think like a Circom circuit’
Check out this workshop on Circom by 0xMilica. 💻
It takes a deep dive into the world of zero-knowledge circuits, and explores the potential of these powerful cryptographic tools.
My ZK workshop on Circom is finally here 🌟
— 0xMilica | ZK education (@0xMilica) August 1, 2024
Thank you @RiscZero for hosting me 🤗https://t.co/jZYgjJA2n7
And last but not least, happy birthday to Ethereum! 🥳
9 years of growth in the Infinite Garden.
We also look forward to seeing what the next decade brings. 👀
Happy 9th birthday, Ethereum!
— vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) July 30, 2024
Looking forward to seeing what the next decade brings. pic.twitter.com/bXq56mIff7
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