Dive into Plonk!

In this week’s episode, we learn more about https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/953 (Plonk) with https://twitter.com/relgabizon (Ariel Gabizon) and https://twitter.com/Zac_Aztec (Zac Williamson) from https://twitter.com/aztecprotocol (Aztec). PLONK is a recent highly efficient, universal SNARK construction. We explore what distinguishes Plonk from some other other new constructions including their focus on Lagrange-bases to deconstruct complex problem statements into simple polynomial identities. This episode goes very deep and so we do recommend you check out a few of previous episodes to help you follow along! All mentioned can be found here along with the other deep zk-topic episodes: https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/zkseries (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/zkseries) Here is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bz16BURH_u8 (Justin Drake Polynomial commitment schemes) study club video, as well as videos from the zkSummit on https://youtu.be/bJDLf8KLdL0 (Marlin) and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJPS_SWoplI (Supersonics) Ariel also mentions the [Bayer groth permutation argument](www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/J.Groth/MinimalShuffle.pdf) which influenced their work. Thanks to this week's sponsor https://twitter.com/NuCypher (Nucypher)! On January 20th, NuCypher's incentivized testnet is launching on Coinlist. This incentivised testnet has the motto "Come and Stake It”! If you are interested, be sure to https://tsm.coinlist.co/nucypher-incentivized-testnet-terms-and-conditions/ (pre-register now). Keep an eye on https://blog.nucypher.com/ (their blog) for launch date, structure, and prize details. All winners will need to complete KYC/AML. Please go to [nucypher.com](nucypher.com) to sign up. Thanks again Nucypher for sponsoring our show! If you like what we do: Follow us on Twitter - @zeroknowledgefm Join us on https://gitcoin.co/grants/329/zero-knowledge-podcast-2 (Telegram) Support our https://gitcoin.co/grants/329/zero-knowledge-podcast-2 (Gitcoin Grant) Support us on the https://www.patreon.com/zeroknowledge (ZKPatreon) Or directly here: ETH: 0xC0FFEE1B5083230a5154F55f253B6b6ae8F29B1a BTC: 1cafekGa3podM4fBxPSQc6RCEXQNTK8Zz ZEC: t1R2bujRF3Hzte9ALHpMJvY8t5kb9ut9SpQ