Matt Green on bringing ZK into the wild and the compliance debate

In this week’s episode, https://twitter.com/annarrose (Anna) and https://twitter.com/acityinohio (Josh Cincinnati) chat with https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green (Matt Green), a cryptographer and professor at https://isi.jhu.edu/ (Johns Hopkins University). They explore Matt’s background in security, blockchain and privacy technologies. He shares his thoughts on early ZK blockchain research, the founding of Zcash, growth in the ZK space, how the industry is ready for tangible use-cases and navigating anonymity and regulatory bodies. This episode closes with a review of Matt’s perspective on the Tornado Cash sanctions and what this means for the space. Here are some additional links for this episode: https://radiantcommons.com/ (Radiant Commons Website) https://www.sealance.io/ (Sealance Website) http://zerocash-project.org/paper (Zerocash: Decentralized Anonymous Payments from Bitcoin by Ben-Sasson, Chiesa, Garman, Green, Miers, Tromer, and Virza, 2014) https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/01/26/snarks.html (An approximate introduction to how zk-SNARKs are possible by Vitalik Buterin) https://zeroknowledge.fm/245-2/ (Episode 245: Sanctions against Tornado Cash: a Legal Perspective) 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) This week’s episode is sponsored by https://aave.com/ (Aave). https://aavegrants.org/ (Aave Grants) is a community-led grants program, focused on growing a thriving ecosystem of contributors within Aave by funding ideas, projects and events that benefit the protocol or surrounding ecosystem. Aave’s latest deployment, V3, was launched on 6 networks and introduces new features like Isolation Mode, Efficiency Mode and Portals. A decentralized, collateral-backed stablecoin native to Aave called GHO has also been announced. Look out for more details on the testnet and release coming soon. Explore the protocol at https://aave.com/ (Aave.com) and if you’re building in the ecosystem, apply for a grant through https://aavegrants.org/ (aavegrants.org). 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)