Episode 305: ZK Rewind: A Look Back at 2023

In this week’s episode, Anna (https://twitter.com/annarrose) catches up in person with Guillermo (https://twitter.com/GuilleAngeris), Tarun (https://twitter.com/tarunchitra) and Alex Evans (https://twitter.com/alexhevans) for a look back at 2023. They revisit their state of mind back in Jan 2023 and share how the year unfolded and evolved for each of them as well as the ZK space as a whole. They survey the themes, applications and research topics that dominated ZK throughout this year and offer retrospective takes on how the ecosystem has changed.
Hope you enjoy!
We are taking the next week off, but will return with our look forward to 2024 episode in the new year.
Here’s some additional links for this episode:
Succinct Proofs in Linear Algebra by Evans and Angeris (https://angeris.github.io/papers/zk-linalg.pdf)
17 misconceptions about SNARKs (and why they hold us back) by Thaler (https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/17-misconceptions-about-snarks/)
Anna Rose’s zkpod.ai Blog Post (https://hackmd.io/@Arrose/H1uPQ78gn)
zkpod.ai Website (https://zkpod.ai/)
Episode 265: Where ZK and ML intersect with Yi Sun and Daniel Kang (https://zeroknowledge.fm/265-2/)
Episode 256: New ZK Use Cases with Dan Boneh (https://zeroknowledge.fm/256-2/)
Episode 260: ZK in 2023 with Kobi, Guillermo, and Tarun (https://zeroknowledge.fm/260-2/)
Episode 302: ZK for web2 interop with zkLogin & ZK Email (https://zeroknowledge.fm/302-2/)
zkSummit9 Playlist (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sj5yY3wguIo&list=PLj80z0cJm8QFnY6VLVa84nr-21DNvjWH7&index=44)
ZK Hack Lisbon (https://www.zklisbon.com/)
ZK Hack Istanbul (https://www.zkistanbul.com/)
SPLA Study Group (https://zkhack.dev/study-group-spla/)
ZK Hack Discord (https://discord.com/invite/BEyBc68EQW)
ZK Hack IV online is coming soon, sign up for the kick-off session on 16th Jan here (https://hopin.com/events/zkhackiv-1). For the latest news on the event check out the zhhack.dev/zkhackIV (https://zkhack.dev/zkhackIV/) website.
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As Aleo is gearing up for their mainnet launch in Q1, this is an invitation to be part of a transformational ZK journey.
Dive deeper and discover more about Aleo at http://aleo.org/ (http://aleo.org/)
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