ZK in Review: Decoding 2024 & Predicting 2025

Summary
This week, Anna catches up with cohosts, Tarun (x.com/tarunchitra), Nico (x.com/nico_mnbl) and Guillermo (x.com/GuilleAngeris) to do a look back at the zk research and applications that came out in 2024. They go on to discuss the challenges facing the ecosystem. And they wrap with a brief look forward, covering what to expect in ZK in 2025.
This will be the last ep of 2024, thank you for joining us this year!
Further Reading:
• ZK12: Welcome to zkSummit & Sponsor Intro - Anna Rose (youtu.be/KWS0InuJJrA?feature=shared&t=892)
• Circle STARKs by Haböck, Levit and Papini (eprint.iacr.org/2024/278.pdf)
• StarkWare Unveils New 'Stwo' Cryptographic Prover That's 'Blazingly Fast' (coindesk.com/tech/2024/02/29/starkware-unveils…)
• ZK12: WHIR: Reed-Solomon Proximity Testing with Super-Fast Verification by Eylon Yogev (youtube.com/watch?v=iPKzmxLDdII)
• Episode 290: Exploring, Teaching and Auditing ZK with David Wong (zeroknowledge.fm/290-2)
• Episode 345: Latest ZK Research with Dan Boneh (zeroknowledge.fm/345-2)
• LatticeFold: A Lattice-based Folding Scheme and its Applications to Succinct Proof Systems by Dan Boneh and Binyi Chen (eprint.iacr.org/2024/257.pdf)
• LaBRADOR: Compact Proofs for R1CS from Module-SIS? by Ward Beullens and Gregor Seiler (eprint.iacr.org/2022/1341.pdf)
• Quantum Algorithms for Lattice Problems by Yilei Chen (eprint.iacr.org/2024/555.pdf)
• Episode 325: Web Proofs with Tracy from Pluto (zeroknowledge.fm/325-2)
• ZODA: Zero-Overhead Data Availability by Evans, Mohnblatt and Angeris (angeris.github.io/papers/da-construction.pdf)

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