HashCloak Monthly #4: December Edition
Happy New Year!
In this edition of the HashCloak Newsletter, we are covering what new things came up in blockchain privacy in December. Although the month of December was a slow one due to the holidays, there was still a lot of work done to wrap up privacy on blockchains in 2019!
Improvements to Zero-Knowledge Proving Systems
Plonk Benchmarks shows that TurboPLONK performs better than Groth16 on MiMC, the most used zk-SNARK!
Implementation of a Halo-Marlin Circuit with less than 100 000 gates
Interesting Research
Private voting and whistleblowing using Semaphore
Transparent Polynomial Delegation and its application to ZKPs
ZKValidator: A Validator dedicated to supporting ZKP R&D
ZKSync: Scalability and Privacy Engine for Ethereum based on ZKRollup
Interesting Articles
Lightning Network traffic analysis raises questions over fees and privacy
Recursive Zero Knowledge Proofs: A Comprehensive Primer
An overview of the Zcash Blossom upgrade
Attacks on Pairing-based zk-SNARKS
Cheon’s attack and its effect on the security on big trusted setups
Cheon’s discrete log attack and its relevance to zk-SNARKs
Blockchain Privacy in a TweetShell
The best way forward for CoinJoin Privacy is PayJoin
5 stages of Bitcoin Fungibility Grief
Podcasts and Videos
Monero Talk Interview with Amir Taaki
LegoSNARK introduction by its authors
QEDit on the Zero-Knowledge Podcast
ZKStudyClub: Polynomial Commitments
General Guides
How to buy cryptocurrencies privately
How to sync an Ethereum node through Tor
General Software Updates
Slock.it adds support for onion services in their light client
ABDK Consulting’s Circom Library
Improving the gas efficiency of EY’s Nightfall through the use of logs
Zcash Shielded Pool Explorer and Statistics
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Let’s make 2020 and the decade to come years in which we make blockchains truly private.