Best Zk Podcasts (2024)

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Episode 336: ZK in Celestia with Connor O’Hara 1:02:29

26d ago1:02:29

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Summary In this week’s episode, Anna chats with Connor O’Hara from Celestia. After discussing the latest ZK Hack Montréal event where Connor was a judge, they dive into his professional background, the ecosystems he has been a part of and what led him to work on Celestia. They then discuss various ZK-focused initiatives within the Celestia ecosyste…

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Episode 340: Is Cosmos Dead? A critical look with Zaki Manian 1:23:41

8m ago1:23:41

1:23:41

Summary This week Anna and Zaki Manian dive into the Cosmos ecosystem and ask the question: is Cosmos Dead? They explore key events, teams and players who worked on Cosmos during different eras before teasing out the strengths and structural flaws that made the project what it is today. The conversation wraps with a discussion around new initiative…

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Brigit's journey to $100MM+ revenue and $1B in fees saved, with CEO Zuben Mathews 46:15

14m ago46:15

46:15

Lex chats with Zuben Mathews - CEO and Co-founder of Brigit. Brigit is a leading consumer financial app in the United States that offers a suite of holistic financial products including budgeting, financial insights, access to paychecks, and credit building. Zuben kicks off the conversation discussing his journey from investment banking at Deutsche…

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Coinbase: Empowering Financial Freedom with Advanced Trading Solutions! 51:41

17h ago51:41

51:41

In our latest episode of Web3 Unpacked, Rich Pasqua of @mvmtmedia, speaks with Moheeth Alvi (Head of Product - Advanced Trading) of @Coinbase, The worlds largest and most trusted crypto exchange for buying, selling and storing Crypto. "I've generally been really passionate about the mission of Coinbase on driving economic freedom in the world. I gr…

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Episode 339: TEEs with Andrew Miller 1:14:43

2d ago1:14:43

1:14:43

Summary In this week’s episode, Anna and Tarun catch up with Andrew Miller. They cover his early work on consensus, ZK and MPC before switching focus to the topic of his current work: TEEs. They map his evolving opinion on TEEs and explore why they could be seen as an optimal solution to many of the blockchain challenges. Here’s some additional lin…

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Generating Real-Time Proofs With TEEs | t1 Protocol | Can 40:41

3d ago40:41

40:41

Welcome to The Fren Zone. This week, our host Mason sat down with Can from t1 Protocol. t1 Protocol leverages Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) and user signature verification to generate real-time proofs. As always, we dove deep into the technical side of things. We hope you'll join us in The Fren Zone. Follow us on Twitter: Tokensoft – @Token…

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Episode 338: On Trust Infrastructure with Arnaud Schenk 1:29:19

9d ago1:29:19

1:29:19

Summary This week Anna and Nico chat with Arnaud Schenk, one of the original co-founders of Aztec and creator of the Polaris Fellowship. They discuss Arnaud’s recent blog post ‘On Trust Infrastructure’, exploring the down sides of a trustless system, the need to make online community building more possible and how programmable cryptography may play…

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Bitcoin Programmability with Zero Trust Architecture | Native Network | Robert 48:25

11d ago48:25

48:25

Welcome to The Fren Zone. This week, our host Mason sat down with Robert from Native, the first platform that enables Bitcoin programmability with zero trust architecture. Topics: – ₿ Underserved Bitcoin community – 👨‍💻 Multi-party computation (MPC) to program Bitcoin transactions directly – ✅ Combining the benefits of both L1 and L2 solutions – ⏱️…

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Impromptu Hunt with ZeeKay 1:02:24

16d ago1:02:24

1:02:24

Suddenly, without warning, we are recording an episode with ZK Wiki: https://wiki.whenparked.com/Main_PageRWP Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/whenparked/ This content is brought to you ad free thanks to: https://www.patreon.com/conedodger240 I also stream on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/conedodger240 Merch: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/co…

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Episode 337: Restaking Research with Naveen & Tarun 1:10:56

22d ago1:10:56

1:10:56

Summary In this week’s episode Anna and Tarun chat with Naveen Durvasula about his recent work ‘Robust Restaking Networks’. They discuss Naveen’s early work on matching markets and how this led him to work on mechanism design before exploring how the concepts of restaking were first presented, and how both Naveen and Tarun have been working to bett…

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Building a 800,000 device DePIN blockchain, with Peaq Founder Till Wendler 35:39

18d ago35:39

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Lex chats with Till Wendler, Founder of Peaq Network - a leading DePIN Layer 1 in the blockchain space. In this episode, Till discusses his journey into entrepreneurship and the blockchain space. He talks about his early involvement with Ethereum and building a business around e-commerce payments using cryptocurrencies. Till also explains the conce…

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Michael Bentley: Build Right and It Will Withstand Anything 1:19:14

27d ago1:19:14

1:19:14

Few protocols are able to bounce back from a big exploit, let alone come back with more innovation and ambition than before. Tune in to hear @euler_mab talk about the ins and outs of his journey building @eulerfinance so far!

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Bringing Privacy to Web2 and Web3 with FHE: Zama's Rand 44:48

29d ago44:48

44:48

Welcome to The Fren Zone. This week, our host Mason sat down with Rand from Zama. Zama is an open source cryptography protocol building state-of-the-art fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) solutions for blockchain and AI. As always, we dove deep into the technical side of things. We hope you'll join us in The Fren Zone. Follow us on Twitter: Tokenso…

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Episode 335: Groth16, IVC and Formal Verification with Nexus 1:15:54

1M ago1:15:54

1:15:54

Summary In this week’s episode, Anna chats with Jens Groth and Daniel Marin from Nexus. They catch up on all things Groth16 with the author himself before diving into a variety topics, such as formal verification in the context of ZKPs, the Nexus architecture, the benefits and challenges of building a system from the ground up, folding and IVC plus…

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The First Clearing Layer: Everclear's Arjun 48:45

1M ago48:45

48:45

Welcome to The Fren Zone. This week, our host Mason sat down with Arjun from Everclear, the first clearing layer. Everclear coordinates the global settlement of liquidity between chains, solving fragmentation for modular blockchains. As always, we dove deep into the technical side of things. We hope you'll join us in The Fren Zone. Follow us on Twi…

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Bonus: zkSummit 12 1:07

1M ago1:07

1:07

Hey! There is no episode this week, but wanted to share an update about zkSummit 12 - happening on Oct 8 in Lisbon. If you want to join, be sure to apply to attend. If you want to apply to speak, the deadline to apply is Aug 15th. Both application to attend and the application to speak are in the same form that can be found @ www.zksummit.com…

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The First Native Yield Layer: Veda's Stephanie and Sun 54:24

1M ago54:24

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Welcome to The Fren Zone. This week, our host Mason sat down with Stephanie and Sun of Veda, the first native yield layer for DeFi. Veda tokenizes the most complex DeFi interactions, granting protocols the power to embed yield for a superior UX. As always, we dove deep into the technical side of things. We hope you'll join us in The Fren Zone. Foll…

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Episode 334: ZK Research Update with Joe Bonneau 1:09:44

2M ago1:09:44

1:09:44

Summary In this week’s episode, Anna and Guille catch up with Joe Bonneau, Assistant Professor at NYU and Research Partner at a16z crypto research. They discuss the research Joe has been working on since he was last on the show in 2019, including Naysayer proofs, Zero-Knowledge Middleboxes, Sealed-Bid Auctions, and other ZK-related research project…

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Pipe's Pivot from Revenue Exchange to Digital Lending, with CEO Luke Voiles 47:05

2M ago47:05

47:05

Lex chats with Luke Voiles, the CEO of Pipe - a modern capital platform built to connect business owners to fast, frictionless, dilution-free funding. Luke kicks off discussing his experience in the FinTech industry. He talks about his transition from being an investor to working in FinTech. Luke shares his background in distressed credit investing…

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Episode 333: Verifiable SQL, Reckle Trees and ZK Coprocessing with Lagrange Labs 1:04:18

2M ago1:04:18

1:04:18

Summary In this week’s episode Anna chats with Ismael Hishon-Rezaizadeh, Founder and CEO at Lagrange Labs and Charalampos (Babis) Papamanthou, Head of Research at Lagrange and Co-Director of the Applied Cryptography Lab at Yale University. They revisit the concepts of zk-powered coprocessors and dive into the work that Charalampos did previous to j…

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Episode 332: Brussels catch up with Hart from Across 1:33:05

2M ago1:33:05

1:33:05

Summary In this week’s episode, Anna and Tarun sit down with Hart Lambur irl at EthCC week in Brussels. They start by exploring Hart’s project Across - a cross-chain interoperability solution and sister project to Uma. They explore the Across construction, the tradeoff space and how this compares to other interop solutions. Then, in ZK Podcast trad…

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Building ZK Rollups on Bitcoin: Alpen Labs' David 49:01

2M ago49:01

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Welcome to The Fren Zone. This week, our host Mason sat down with David of Alpen Labs. Alpen Labs is expanding global financial access & individual agency through ZK-enabled infrastructure on Bitcoin. As always, we dove deep into the technical side of things. We hope you'll join us in The Fren Zone. Follow us on Twitter: Tokensoft – @TokensoftInc A…

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Bonus: ZK Hack Montreal 1:50

2M ago1:50

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This week's ZK Podcast episode will be delayed to Thursday this week due to Brussels mania. In the meantime, we wanted to highlight the upcoming ZK Hack Montreal event, happening Aug 9-11 2024. This is the 4th IRL zk-focused hackathon produced by ZK Hack. Apply now to attend ZK Hack Montreal as a hacker and jump into zk. https://www.zkmontreal.com/…

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Embedding Insurance in digital lending, with Danielle Sesko of TruStage 39:58

2M ago39:58

39:58

Lex chats with Danielle Sesko about insurance and innovation in the fintech sector. They discuss the purpose of insurance and why it exists, the structure of insurance companies, the challenges of insurance innovation, and the integration of insurance into digital lending platforms. Sesko explains that insurance is necessary because most people can…

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Episode 331: Farcaster with Varun Srinivasan 1:22:34

2M ago1:22:34

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Summary In this week’s episode, Anna and Tarun meet with Varun Srinivasan, co-founder of Farcaster. They explore the Farcaster project, discussing the ideas that prompted its inception and what separates it from existing social media networks. The conversation explores the design space that Farcaster opens up for devs and the kinds of applications …

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Avi Zurlo: =nil; Building the End Game Layer 2 1:12:48

2M ago1:12:48

1:12:48

The strategy of using L2s to scale Ethereum comes with the well known problem of liquidity fragmentation. Maybe, just maybe, if we had one blockchain that could scale, be fast and do it all with little to no trade offs, then we could all just migrate all liquidity to it. The team at @nil_foundation believe this is achievable. Today we chat with @av…

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Zach Dash: Starting a Country 1:11:17

2M ago1:11:17

1:11:17

Things you can do with crypto: - Immutable programmable ledger - Send money internationally, instantly - Start a country?! Today we speak with @ZacharyDash , founder of @EpochIsland , who is trying to do exactly that. Start a country, through crypto.

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Episode 330: Frameworks for Programmable Privacy with Ying Tong and Bryan Gillespie 59:56

3M ago59:56

59:56

Summary In this week’s episode, Anna and Guille chat with Ying Tong Lai from Geometry Research and Bryan Gillespie from Inversed Tech about their latest research and works to date. They dive into the pair’s recent work ‘SoK: Programmable Privacy in Distributed Systems’, exploring the classifications and frameworks being introduced. Here’s some addi…

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Automate & Amplify The Exposure of All Your Assets! 59:31

3M ago59:31

59:31

In our latest episode of Web3 Unpacked, Rich Pasqua of @mvmtmedia, speaks with Chris Bradbury (CEO) of Summer.Fi, A decentralized finance platform that allows you to power up your portfolio by borrowing, lending and multiplying your favorite assets. "We have a range of really advanced, entirely non -custodial automation tools, so you can sell up ad…

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How Provenance blockchain tokenised $10B+ of Real World Assets, with Provenance Foundation CEO, Anthony Moro 47:15

2M ago47:15

47:15

Lex chats with Anthony Moro, CEO of Provenance Foundation. Provenance is a blockchain platform for real-world assets and has a focus on financial services. Moro discusses his background in the traditional financial industry, particularly in security servicing, and explains how Provenance is positioning itself as a good control location for ownershi…

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Episode 329: Building Cryptographic Proofs from Hash Functions with Alessandro Chiesa and Eylon Yogev 1:10:38

3M ago1:10:38

1:10:38

Summary In this week’s episode Anna and Nico chat with Alessandro Chiesa, Associate Professor at EPFL and Eylon Yogev, Professor at Bar-Ilan University. They discuss their recent publication; Building Cryptographic Proofs from Hash Functions, which provides a comprehensive and rigorous treatment of cryptographic proofs and goes on to analyze notabl…

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Addison: Saving $6M of user funds from Curve exploit. 35:42

3M ago35:42

35:42

Exploit funds recovery is one of the most stressful, challenging and rewarding areas of web3 security. Tune in to hear from @0xaddi , white-hat hacker who help Curve rescue $6M from their exploit last July. Sponsored by @Sablier and @xyz_remedy

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Special Event: Exploring The Possibilities in the Hive3 Metaverse! 38:38

3M ago38:38

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In our latest episode of Xr Unpacked, Rich Pasqua of @mvmtmedia, and Stacy Quakenbush of Hive3 explore the endless possibilities of the Hive3 platform in the Metaverse. In this episode you get to experience a recorded live podcast event, learn about MVMT's services and dive into examples of how you can utilize the Hive3 Metaverse for education, eve…

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Episode 328: ZK on Bitcoin with Alpen Labs 1:07:03

3M ago1:07:03

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Summary In this week’s episode, Anna and Tarun chat with Sims Gautam and Liam Eagen from Alpen Labs. They dive into the world of Bitcoin L2s and focus on how ZK can be used to incorporate strong connections between Bitcoin and new execution environments. The group then explores BitVM, covenants, the distinction between the Bridge Operators and sequ…

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What makes a successful AI investor, with Fusion Fund Founder Lu Zhang 49:08

3M ago49:08

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Lex chats with Lu Zhang, the founder and managing partner at Fusion Fund, a venture fund that invests in deep technology, including artificial intelligence (AI) and healthcare. They discuss Lu's experience as an entrepreneur and the challenges she faced in building her own company. Lu also shares her investment thesis on AI, highlighting the opport…

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