Episode Details

In this week’s episode, Anna chats with Rahul Magani, the Applied ZK Lead at Jump Crypto, and Hendrik Hofstadt, Project Lead at (Wormhole Crypto)[https://twitter.com/wormholecrypto]. They look at how Wormhole first came to be, the challenges of interoperability, the design decisions they made in balancing security, speed and functionality, the risks facing these types of solutions, including the famous Wormhole hack, what the future holds and how they aim to explore using zk in bridging.

Here are some links for this episode:

• Ep 230: Designing Optimistic Interoperability with Nomad
• Ep 232: Cutting Edge ZK Research with Mary Maller
• Jump Crypto
• Wormhole Repository
• Wormhole Portal Bridge
• Jump Trading Group
• Key Pillars of Crypto Infrastructure
• Pyth Network
• Serum Project
• Fiat-Shamir Vulnerability
• Jump Trading Bug Bounties
• BN254 Curve Standard
• PlonK Proof System
• Nova Proof System
• Manta: a Plug and Play Private DeFi Stack
• BLS12-377 curve operations
• Wormhole Hack Report

The ZK Tech side round on Gitcoin starts today and runs until June 23rd.

During this CLR matching round funds that are donated to the ZK tech side round are matched from our 100K matching pool. This initiative is led by 0xPARC and zkValidator, as well as our fantastic matching partners from the ecosystem.

Visit gitcoin.co to get your grant in and choose the tag ZK tech to be eligible to our matching pool.

Today’s episode is sponsored by Anoma

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