From Wireless to Blockchains with Pramod Viswanath

In this week’s episode, https://twitter.com/annarrose (Anna) and https://twitter.com/tarunchitra (Tarun) chat with https://ece.princeton.edu/people/pramod-viswanath (Pramod Viswanath), Professor of Engineering at https://ece.princeton.edu/ (Princeton) and co-founder of https://witnesschain.com/ (Witness Chain). They discuss Pramod’s early work on wireless networks and how this type of research was brought to market at the time. They also cover topics such as the introduction of adversarial thinking into his research, his move over to blockchain, how the incentives of blockchain could be used within the wireless industry, and Pramod’s new project https://witnesschain.com/ (Witness Chain), which aims to reshape the wireless industry. Here are some additional links for this episode: https://zeroknowledge.fm/244-2/ (Episode 244: Journey to Blockchain with David Tse) https://zeroknowledge.fm/217-2/ (Episode 217: Information Theory and Blockchain with Sreeram Kannan) https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.10484 (Everything is a race and Nakamoto always wins) https://web.stanford.edu/%7Edntse/wireless_book.html (Fundamentals of Wireless Communication by Tse and Viswanath, 2005) https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3084459 (Dandelion: Redesigning the Bitcoin Network for Anonymity by Venkatakrishnan, Fanti and Viswanath, 2017) https://web3.princeton.edu/ (Blockchains at Princeton Class) Join the ZK HACK III - https://hopin.com/events/zk-hack3-1-d5d6ce6b-9a79-496f-9a82-be39ebd22e84 (kick off event here) Join the https://discord.com/invite/tHXyEbEqVN (ZK HACK Discord) Check out the https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkOS (Aleo repo here) Today’s episode is sponsored by https://polygon.technology/ (Polygon) Introducing Polygon zkEVM. Polygon’s vision for zkEVM is simple: developers can deploy any Ethereum smart contract to a Layer 2 and benefit from the scaling power of ZK proofs. Public testnet is now available, so you now have an opportunity to test their work and make improvements! If you’d like to learn more about Polygon zkEVM visit https://bit.ly/startonzkevm (bit.ly/startonzkevm) to check out the Getting Started guide. If you like what we do: Find all our links here! https://linktr.ee/zeroknowledge (@ZeroKnowledge | Linktree) Subscribe to our https://zeroknowledge.substack.com (podcast newsletter) Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/zeroknowledgefm (@zeroknowledgefm) Join us on https://zeroknowledge.fm/telegram (Telegram) Catch us on https://zeroknowledge.fm/ (Youtube) Head to the https://community.zeroknowledge.fm/ (ZK Community Forum) Support our https://zeroknowledge.fm/gitcoin-grant-329-zkp-2 (Gitcoin Grant)