Episode 335: Groth16, IVC and Formal Verification with Nexus

Summary

In this week’s episode, Anna chats with Jens Groth and Daniel Marin from Nexus. They catch up on all things Groth16 with the author himself before diving into a variety of chats around formal verification in the context of ZKPs, the Nexus architecture, the benefits and challenges of building a system from the ground up, folding and IVC plus the properties these offer in a zkVM context and much more.

Here’s some additional links for this episode:

• ZKProof Conference in Berlin
• Nova: Recursive Zero-Knowledge Arguments from Folding Schemes by Kothapalli, Setty, and Tzialla
• Nexus zkVM
• Episode 284: Using Formal Verification on ZK Systems with Jon Stephens
• Episode 67: Formal Verification with Martin Lundfall
• Jens Groth Publication List
• Nexus Docs
• Nexus 1.0 Machine
• Nexus 1.0: The Zero Knowledge Machine on YouTube
• Nexus GitHub Library
• Enabling General-Purpose Verifiable Computing | Daniel Marin (Oct 2023) on YouTube
• Nexus 2.0
• Nexus 2.0 Announcement
• SETI@home

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