Episode 307: The Evolution of Aleo with Howard Wu & Alex Pruden

This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/annarrose) caught up on all things Aleo (https://aleo.org/) with Howard Wu (https://twitter.com/1HowardWu) co-founder of the Aleo Network & Alex Pruden (https://twitter.com/apruden08) executive director of the Aleo Foundation (https://aleo.org/post/announcing-aleo-foundation/). Howard was last on the show back in 2020 when Aleo was in its infancy, so the group dive into how the project has evolved over the last few years, covering lessons learned along the way as well as technical decisions, detours, breakthroughs and reflecting on initial goals as they built out the system.
Here’s some additional links for this episode:
Episode 144: Aleo with Howard Wu (https://zeroknowledge.fm/144-2/)
Episode 38: Intro to zkSNARKs with Howard Wu (https://zeroknowledge.fm/38-2/)
zk-creds: Flexible Anonymous Credentials from zkSNARKs and Existing Identity Infrastructure by Rosenberg, White, Garman, and Miers (https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/878.pdf)
zPass by Aleo (https://zpass.aleo.org/)
Cloudflare (https://www.cloudflare.com/)
Aleo HQ GitHub for ZEXE (https://github.com/AleoHQ/zexe)
Leo by Aleo (https://developer.aleo.org/leo/)
Penumbra (https://penumbra.zone/)
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