ZK-News - 5th-11th August '24

Carlos Lira

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ZK-News - 5th-11th August '24

✨ ZK-Newsflash! ✨

Here are the highlights of what happened in the ZK space last week, 5th - 11th August.

ZK Hack Montreal was a huge success! 🎉

The event took place from August 9th to 11th.

We are very happy to have met a lot of Aligned attendees in Montreal.

ZK is becoming mainstream! 💚

The guide you've been waiting for:

How to integrate Aligned into your application. ✨

Follow these simple three steps to achieve it:

✅ Generate your ZK Proof.

✅ Write your smart contract.

✅ And submit and verify the proof to Aligned.

Read on to learn more.

Eli Ben-Sasson chatted with The Rollup. 📢

They talked about scaling Bitcoin, the exploration of integrating Bitcoin with Ethereum, and more.

Will Starknet be able to settle transactions across both chains simultaneously? 👀

Stay tuned for updates.

The StarkWare Scholar Summit was amazing. 🥳

It's great to see this kind of initiative. Topics discussed included: FRI protocol, Circle STARK, cryptoeconomic security, and much more.

If you missed it, you can watch it again on this playlist.

Kakarot announced Kakarot SEED: A 6-week hackathon to cultivate your most innovative ideas! 🥕

Build your project on Kakarot to get mentorship and marketing support.

🔹 Consumer dApps.

🔹 DeFi dApps.

🔹 Whatever you want.!

The only limit is your imagination. 🧠

Lita hosted an amazing event, "The Next Frontier of Proving Systems and zkVMs." 📢

Discussions focused on innovative approaches that are shaping the next generation of cryptographic proofs.

Speakers included: Daniel Lubarov, Daniel Dore, Wei Dai, and more.

Big announcement from the Succinct Labs team: SP1's official production release! 🖥️

By simply writing Rust, any developer can create real-world ZKP applications.

This is a huge step forward for the adoption of ZK technology.

Congratulations to the Succinct Labs team! 🎉

A paper on two new SNARKs, Pari and Garuda, was published by Pratyush Mishra, Alireza Shirzad, and Michel Dellepere.

The authors claim that:

✅ Pari is the smallest known SNARK.

✅ And Garuda reduces proof generation time by supporting arbitrary “custom” gates and free linear gates.

Zircuit announced that their Mainnet Phase 1 is Live! ⚡️

This is a major milestone in their pursuit of a secure and efficient platform for decentralized applications.

We're excited to see what the future holds for this project.

Stay tuned:  🐦 Twitter | 🗨️ Telegram | 👾 Discord | 🌐 Website | 🌌 Galxe | 📝 Manifesto

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