Jordi Baylina of Polygon zkEVM | Zero Knowledge, Privacy, Scalability and Building Useful Technology

This is a special episode with someone who has been involved in the Ethereum ecosystem for many years. Jordi, a white hat hacker, has been building common good infrastructure and protecting people on the internet during that time. 

Topics Covered in this episode: 

1. Dapp Node, Giveth, Catalan Independence Movement, and useful technology 

2. Technical implementations and tradeoffs in zero knowledge technology

3. Staying current in the rapidly evolving blockchain industry 

4. What excites Jordi in the short term and long term 

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TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 Introduction 

03:10: Dapp Node, Giveth, Catalan Independence Movement, and useful technology 

06:14: Infrastructure decentralization connection to the internet 

06:55: ISP’s and Spanish government censor voting in the Catalan Independence Movement 

08:38: What does it mean for technology to work appropriately? 

11:10: My mission 

12:00: Why is zk technology so important right now 

14:50: Zero knowledge is not only privacy. Also for validity and scalability 

17:35: Tradeoffs between privacy and compression in zero knowledge proofs 

19:20 Recursion, aggregation, and trees of proofs 

21:00: What are the downfalls of current implementation of zkEVMs building on Ethereum 

22:45: Is privacy a requirement to working? 

23:40: Efficient aggregation of proofs in the context data storage systems 

28:10: Speeding up msn operations and speed requirements 

31:00 Keeping up with the pace of research 

34:00 Building proficient teams 

38:25: Speeding up the learning curve 

40:00: Scaling Ethereum, liquid democracy, anonymous voting, data privacy and other goals 

44:14: Scalability, usability and challenges facing utility 

45:10: Prioritizing features, work, and releases 

49:20: Risk assessment in the ecosystem 51:40: Define zk in 10 words or less

 52:40: Is what you do hard? 

54:40: Follow up roundtable with Corey, D, and Jesse