Summary

In this week’s episode, Anna (https://x.com/AnnaRRose) chats with Jens Groth (https://x.com/JensGroth16) and Daniel Marin (https://x.com/danielmarinq) from Nexus (https://nexus.xyz/). 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 (https://zkproof.org/events/zkproof-6-berlin/) Nova: Recursive Zero-Knowledge Arguments from Folding Schemes by Kothapalli, Setty, and Tzialla (https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/370.pdf) Nexus zkVM (https://nexus.xyz/) Episode 284: Using Formal Verification on ZK Systems with Jon Stephens (https://zeroknowledge.fm/284-2/) Episode 67: Formal Verification with Martin Lundfall (https://zeroknowledge.fm/67-2/) Jens Groth Publication List (http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/j.groth/) Nexus Docs (https://docs.nexus.xyz/) Nexus 1.0 Machine (https://nexus.xyz/zkvm-v1) Nexus 1.0: The Zero Knowledge Machine on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok7dua_9Jt8) Nexus GitHub Library (https://github.com/nexus-xyz) Enabling General-Purpose Verifiable Computing | Daniel Marin (Oct 2023) on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4ziNNC4zHM) Nexus 2.0 (https://nexus.xyz/zkvm) Nexus 2.0 Announcement (https://blog.nexus.xyz/nexus-2-0-jolt-hypernova-and-a-new-sdk/) SETI@home (https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/) zkSummit12 is happening in Lisbon on Oct 8th! Applications to speak or attend are now open at zksummit.com (https://www.zksummit.com/), speaker applications close TODAY (Aug 14th) and early bird tickets for attendance are limited! Launching soon, Namada (https://namada.net/) is a proof-of-stake L1 blockchain focused on multichain, asset-agnostic privacy, via a unified shielded set. Namada is natively interoperable with fast-finality chains via IBC, and with Ethereum using a trust-minimized bridge. Follow Namada on Twitter @namada (https://twitter.com/namada) for more information and join the community on Discord (http://discord.gg/namada). Aleo (http://aleo.org/) is a new Layer-1 blockchain that achieves the programmability of Ethereum, the privacy of Zcash, and the scalability of a rollup. As Aleo is gearing up for their mainnet launch in Q1, this is an invitation to be part of a transformational ZK journey. Dive deeper and discover more about Aleo at http://aleo.org/ (http://aleo.org/). If you like what we do: * Find all our links here! @ZeroKnowledge | Linktree (https://linktr.ee/zeroknowledge) * Subscribe to our podcast newsletter (https://zeroknowledge.substack.com) * Follow us on Twitter @zeroknowledgefm (https://twitter.com/zeroknowledgefm) * Join us on Telegram (https://zeroknowledge.fm/telegram) * Catch us on YouTube (www.youtube.com/channel/UCYWsYz5cKw4wZ9Mpe4kuM_g)

Episode 335: Groth16, IVC and Formal Verification with Nexus

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