The month of September was a busy one. Many important milestones in the area of zk-SNARKs were published. In honor of all this snarky innovation, this edition of the HashCloak Monthly newsletter is called SNARKtember.
Interesting Research Papers
Fractacl: Transparent and Post Quantum Recursive Proofs from Holography
Transparent Polynomial Commitment Scheme with Polylogarithmic Communication Complexity
Halo: Recursive Proof Composition without Trusted Setup
Mixicles: Privacy Preseriving Oracles for Blockchains
Marlin: Preprocessing zkSNARKs with Universal and Updateable SRS
Talks from Notable Events
Janine’s slides on privacy in Bitcoin for BTC2019
Presentations from the Simons Institute’s workshop on Probabilistic Checkable and Proof Systems
Interesting Articles
Vitalik’s explanation of PLONK
Mary Maller’s explanation of Marlin
Introduction to the problem of blockchain privacy and to MimbleWimble
To mixers and beyond: Presenting Semaphore, a privacy gadget built on Ethereum
Send ERC20s privately using MimbleWimble and zk-SNARKs
Perpetual Towers of Tau for all zk-SNARKs projects
Tools
Matter Labs’ open source implementation of a STARK prover in Rust
Salad: Coin-mixing on Ethereum using Enigma’s technology
Privacy-related Podcasts
Nopara from Wasabi Wallet on Total Connector Podcast
Eli Ben-Sasson on the Zero-Knowledge podcast discussing the recent innovations in STARKs
Noteworthy Tweets
Leigh Cuen’s summary of Yuval Kogman’s ZeroLink Analysis talk
Tutorials
Iden3’s introduction to Circom and SNARKjs
That’s it for September, folks. If I missed anything, feel free to hit me up on Twitter @badcryptobitch. Again, I’m experimenting with the format of these newsletters. You’ll noticed that I didn’t summarize the articles in this edition. If you have any feedback about what you’d like to see, just tell me.