Episode 271: Between Two ZK Events with Nico and Guillermo

This week, Anna Rose chats with ZK Podcast regular Guillermo Angeris, Head of Research at BCC and Nicolas Mohnblatt, Researcher and Cryptographer at Geometry. This was recorded on April 3rd 2023, the day between the ZK Hack Lisbon hackathon and the zkSummit9 event.

They discuss Nico's move from music to cryptography, his earlier privacy research as a Master's student, and his recent research Sangria, which is a folding scheme for Plonk. Guillermo shares some of his current work cleaning up and formalising concepts in zk. And Anna shares some brief thoughts about the recent release of zkpod.ai - the friendly ZK bot featuring Anna’s voice and containing the entirety of the ZKPodcast knowledge (built by Kobi Gurkan).

They also chat about some news, insights from ZK Hack Lisbon and some of the projects that were built there and generally check in on the state of the ecosystem.

Relevant links:

• Sangria: a Folding Scheme for PLONK - Geometry Research
• ZK9: Sangria is relaxed PLONK a Nova-like folding scheme for PLONK – Nicolas Mohnblatt (Geometry)
• Plonk isn’t real - Zac’s tweet confession
• ZK Hack Lisbon closing ceremony
• ZK Hack Lisbon projects & website
• zkSummit video playlist (including part of the zkSummit9 videos - more coming soon!)
• zkpod.ai announcement tweet from Kobi Gurkan
• Anna's reaction to zkpod.ai

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