Episode 176: Zk-zk-rollup & zk.money with Zac and Joe from Aztec

Zero Knowledge

In this week’s episode, Anna chats with Zac Williamson and Joe Andrews, respectively CTO and Head of Product at Aztec.

The episode is centered on Aztec’s latest release, zk.money, the “zk-zk-rollup” that targets privacy and scalability at the same time. zk.money allows users to shield their Ethereum-based assets while achieving a higher transaction count, a result that took months of research and development of the TurboPLONK. Zac and Joe explain how it works down to the nitty-gritty of elliptic curve arithmetic, logic gates, hashes and circuits.

The conversation then shifts to topics like WebAssembly (and its limitations), Ethereum, UltraPLONK, Noir & more.

Here are some links for this episode:

• Exploring Aztec with Zac Williamson, Zero Knowledge episode 75
• Dive into Plonk!, Zero Knowledge episode 112
• Building Private AMMs with Guillermo Angeris, Zero Knowledge episode 173
• Into the deep end: making sense of PLONK - Zac Williamson (CTO, Aztec Protocol), zkSummit from October 2019
• Plookup: Speeding up the PLONK prover - Zac Williamson & Ariel Gabizon, zkSummit from March 2020

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