Proof Aggregation with Shumo and Yi from NEBRA

Summary
In this week’s episode Anna (twitter.com/annarrose) chats with Shumo (twitter.com/shumochu) and Yi (x.com/0xevevm) from NEBRA (twitter.com/nebrazkp). They discuss how NEBRA UPA, or Universal Proof Aggregation, can mitigate the high price of putting ZKPs on-chain. They cover what it takes to incorporate proving systems into NEBRA UPA as well as the benefits that these systems will bring, how developers are meant to interact with them, and future integrations to enable seamless cross-zkRollup applications. They cover prover marketplaces, verification aggregation systems, and the design space that these systems open up.
Here’s some additional links for this episode:
• NEBRA (nebra.one)
• NEBRA UPA Demo (demo.nebra.one)
• NEBRA Docs (docs.nebra.one)
• UPA Gas Costs by NEBRA (nebra.one/blog/upa_gas)
• MIT Bitcoin Club (bitcoin.mit.edu)
• fflonK: a Fast-Fourier inspired verifier efficient version of PlonK by Gabizon and Williamson (eprint.iacr.org/2021/1167.pdf)
• UniPlonK: PlonK with Universal Verifier by Chu, Gomes, Iglesias, Norton and Tebbs (eprint.iacr.org/2023/869.pdf)

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