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!
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.
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!
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.
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.
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. 👀
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.
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!
‘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.
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. 👀
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