Episode 190: The Why & How of Privacy for DAOs

Zero Knowledge

This week, Anna chats with John Light and Samuel JJ Gosling, two passionate privacy advocates and DAO thinkers. This topic was brought up in a recent zkSessions focused on Privacy in NFTs and DAOs spurring a deeper dive into the subject.

John brings his past experience at Aragon, and now Sovryn, to discuss what is a DAO and what are its needs in privacy and collusion protection. Samuel brings the on the ground view from his involvement in Tornado governance and current work with MACI.

Here are some links for this episode:

• MACI with Koh Wei Jie, Zero Knowledge Episode 159
• MACI implementation code.
• Mixers with Tornado.cash, Zero Knowledge Episode 111
• CowSwap & DAO Tech with Gnosis’s Martin Köppelmann, Zero Knowledge Episode 183

---

Be sure to check out the upcoming ZK Jobs Fair! Happening on July 29th, we will be hosting some of the top zk projects who are looking to build their teams and hire. Most jobs will be engineering and cryptography focused, but business positions abound as well.

In the meantime, you can check out the ZK Jobs Board! For example, ZKValidator is looking to fill a Validator Reliability Engineer position, so make sure to apply if you have the necessary skills.

---

Thank you this week’s episode sponsor, Mina!

Mina, the world’s lightest blockchain – powered by participants. Mina is a layer-one protocol, creating a private gateway between the real world and crypto. The entire chain is around 22kb — even as it scales, thanks to zk-SNARKs,

The layer-one protocol replaces the traditional blockchain with a zero-knowledge proof, ensuring a super-light and constant sized chain that allows participants to quickly sync and verify the network.And snark-powered dapps, called Snapps, allow access to verified real world data from any website for on-chain use. Visit minaprotocol.com to find out more.

---

If you like what we do:
Subscribe to our podcast newsletter to not miss any event!

Follow us on Twitter - @zeroknowledgefm
Join us on Telegram
Catch us on Youtube
Read up on the r/ZKPodcast subreddit
Give us feedback! -https://forms.gle/iKMSrVtcAn6BByH6A
Support our Gitcoin Grant
Support us on the ZKPatreon
Donate through coinbase.commerce

Or directly here:
ETH: 0xC0FFEE1B5083230a5154F55f253B6b6ae8F29B1a
BTC: 1cafekGa3podM4fBxPSQc6RCEXQNTK8Zz
ZEC: t1R2bujRF3Hzte9ALHpMJvY8t5kb9ut9SpQ
DOT: 14zPzb7ihiBeaUn9jdPW9cHKGBd9qtTuJE75hhW2CvzLh6rT