We're excited to announce that we are organizing Verifiable Summit 2024 - a one-day conference dedicated to applied cryptography.
Join us in Warsaw on September 4, 2024, during Warsaw Blockchain Week.
During the 18th Meetup Dr Emanuele Ragnoli (Co-Founder of Provably.ai) will explore the maths of mature inner product protocols designed to address the challenge of verifying aggregate queries, particularly targeting analytics for Big Data. Unlike traditional methods that rely on general-purpose Zero-Knowledge (ZK) proof systems, this protocol leverages specialised cryptographic tools to achieve secure and efficient query verification.
15 October 2024
Dr Emanuele Ragnoli
In this talk, Adam Gągol (CO-Founder @ Aleph Zero) will explore three modern edge designs of private decentralised exchanges grounded in cryptographic techniques. He will provide a comparison of their economic properties, highlighting the unique benefits each design offers. Additionally, Adam will address the known limitations and tradeoffs inherent in these systems.
18 June 2024
Adam Gągol
Brandon Kase - CEO of o1Labs - the incubators of Mina Protocol will lead a focused discussion on the application of zero-knowledge proofs in the Mina Protocol. Mina Protocol is known for its lightweight blockchain, aiming to be the world's lightest blockchain by maintaining a consistent size regardless of network growth. This unique approach provides a more accessible and efficient network that ensures decentralization.
13 May 2024
Brandon Kase
ZK enables new applications, but comes at a prohibitive cost or latency for many other ones. This talk by Orest Tarasiuk explores the tradeoffs that can be made by increasing the security assumptions towards temporarily accepting TEEs (Trusted Execution Environments) in order to get to cheaper or lower-latency execution. It will focus on DeFi and highlight some new use cases that become feasible this way.
29 April 2024
Orest Tarasiuk
During our next meeting Bartosz Nowak will explore the fundamentals of STARK protocol, uncover how polynomial constraints ensure computational integrity. Latest optimisations in zkSTARKS provers and verifiers.
12 March 2024
Bartosz Nowak
Leonid Logvinov will explore the internals of how ZK programs get compiled & proved starting with some theory. Then we will move on to example programs. The Noir & Barretenberg will be used as a tool to broader exploration of the concepts.
20 February 2024
Leonid Logvinov
Ariel Gabizon, one of the authors of the PLONK paper, will walk us through the recent advances in the field of (Zero-Knowledge) Succinct Non-interactive ARguments of Knowledge. He will focus on GKR which received significant interest recently and attempt to explain it to us.
9 January 2024
Ariel Gabizon
Marek Kirejczyk will present the so-called "Vitalik trick" for optimised Schnorr signature validation. By using it, you can reduce the gas cost from 100k+ to just 3k.
12 December 2023
Marek Kirejczyk
8 November 2023
Carsten Munk (Cartesi)
10 October 2023
Adam Domurad (Aztec)
10 August 2023
Marcin Kostrzewa (Reilabs)
6 June 2023
Marek Kirejczyk (zkMarek)
8 May 2023
Rafał (0xrafal)
13 Apr 2023
Orest Tarasiuk & Michał Zając
9 Mar 2023
Orest Tarasiuk (Scroll)
31 Jan 2023
Michał Zając (Nethermind)
2 Jan 2023
Michał Zając (Nethermind)
1 Dec 2022
Orest Tarasiuk (Scroll)