Proof of Necessary Work with Akis Kattis (NYU)

In this week's episode, Anna and guest host Tarun Chitra chat with Akis Kattis, a PhD student at NYU and the co-author of Proof of Necessary Work: Succinct State Verification with Fairness Guarantees - a paper he co-wrote with Joseph Bonneau. They discuss the challenge of Proof of Useful Work, the unique properties that SNARKs have, such as puzzle hardness, that allow for PoNW to overcome these challenges, PoS SNARK systems, elastic block construction, and more. Here are a few of the articles we mention in the interview: https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/190 (Proof of Necessary Work: Succinct State Verification with Fairness Guarantees) https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.06093.pdf (Stabilizing Congestion in Decentralized Record-Keepers ) Check out the https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYWsYz5cKw4wZ9Mpe4kuM_g?view_as=subscriber (Zero Knowledge Youtube Channel) and be sure to subscribe to get the latest videos from the Podcast, zkSummit and zkStudyClub! If you like what we do: Follow us on Twitter - https://twitter.com/zeroknowledgefm (@zeroknowledgefm) Join us on https://t.me/joinchat/B_81tQ57-ThZg8yOSx5gjA (Telegram) Give us feedback! https://forms.gle/iKMSrVtcAn6BByH6A (https://forms.gle/iKMSrVtcAn6BByH6A) 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