Episode Details

In this week’s episode, Anna chats with Omer Shlomovits and Yuval Domb from Ingonyama. They go back to the start of the project, exploring Ingonyama’s initial vision for what ZK Hardware could be, how the field has evolved and how they are accelerating ZK Hardware today. The group discuss hardware product cycles, the hardware and algorithmic components, how a ZK ASIC is developed, they review some of the latest research from Ingonyama and more.

Here’s some additional links for this episode:

• Episode 158: Threshold Cryptography with Omer Shlomovits from ZenGo
• Episode 258: Ultrasound Money & VRFs with Justin Drake
• The first ever SNARK proving ASIC tweet by drakefjustin
• Episode 266: ZK Hardware Sessions with Zprize Pt. 1
• Episode 267: ZK Hardware Sessions with Zprize Pt. 2
• ZK10: ZPU: The Zero-Knowledge Processing Unit - Yuval Domb
• Supranational Website
• Accseal Twitter
• Episode 311: The Launch of Celestia and Beyond
• Episode 308: Avail’s Approach to DA with Prabal Banerjee
• Episode 301: EigenLayer @ Devconnect
• ICICLE GitHub by Igonyama
• Lazzo + Jolt by a16z
• HyperPlonk: Plonk with Linear-Time Prover and High-Degree Custom Gates by Chen, Bünz, Boneh and Zhang E
• The Sum-Check Protocol over Fields of Small Characteristic by Thaler
• Episode 303: A Dive into Binius with Ulvetanna
• Sumcheck 201 Paper by Ingonyama

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