Episode 289: Penumbra Catch Up with Finch, Erwan and Jen

This week, host Anna Rose chats with Finch, Erwan and Jen from the Penumbra team. Anna gets an update from the Penumbra team and checks in on any new project updates, as well as getting into the details of how this zk-powered Blockchain works under the hood and the cryptography involved. Later, they explore how Penumbra harnessed ZK to offer new paradigms for staking, voting and trading, how the DEX works and more!

Here’s some additional links for this episode:

• Penumbra Storage
• Penumbra GitHub
• ZK8: How to build a private DEX - Henry de Valence - Penumbra
• ZK8: Tiered Merkle Topiary in Rust – finch – Penumbra Labs
• Episode 247: Exploring Penumbra with Henry de Valence
• Plaidfinch (Penumbra) - Interchain Private Trading with Penumbra
• Privacy in Cosmos Live: Finch (Penumbra)- Full-Stack Private Protocol Design
• A pure-Rust implementation of group operations on Ristretto and Curve25519
• curve25519-dalek Github
  
• Replicating Market Makers by Angeris, Evans, Chitra
• SecureDrop

Further reading;

• Penumbra’s DEX Arrives From The Future
• How to See in the Dark: Navigating Penumbra
• Private Governance on Penumbra
• Bringing Zero-Knowledge Proofs to Penumbra
• Introducing Poseidon377, our instantiation of a SNARK-friendly hash
• Testnet #4: Shielded Staking Is Here

zkSummit 10 is happening in London on September 20, 2023! Apply to attend now -> zkSummit 10 Application Form

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Anoma’s first fractal instance, Namada, is launching soon!

The MASP circuit's latest update enables shielded set rewards directly in the shielded set, a novel feature that funds privacy as a public good.

Follow Namada on twitter @namada for more information and join the community on Discord discord.gg/namada.

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