Zero-Knowledge Proofs
From Smuggling Gold Out of Africa to Bridging Bitcoin and Cardano
A longtime regular on the crypto scene, Sovryn and BitcoinOS founder Edan Yago learned the importance of financial sovereignty at an early age.
Buenos Aires Adds ZK Proofs to City App in Bid to Boost Residents' Privacy
The crypto-adjacent tech is meant to give the Argentine capital's 3.6 million residents greater control over their personal data.
The (Zero-Knowledge Proof) Singularity Is Near
This month may well be remembered as an inflection point in the acceleration toward real-time proving of transaction validity for blockchains.
Polygon to Buy $5M of Servers With Computer Chips Devoted to Zero-Knowledge Cryptography
The purchase is part of a deal with hardware maker Fabric, which is also producing custom zero-knowledge chips for Polygon's AggLayer.
Polygon Begins Token Swap, in Move to Allow More Issuance
The migration from Polygon's MATIC token to POL will also bring in some tokenomics changes with a new emission rate of 2% annually.
Polygon to Start Much-Awaited Swap of POL Token for Longstanding MATIC
The migration to POL from MATIC will also bring in some tokenomics changes with a new emission rate of 2% annually.
Banks Using Permissionless Blockchains for Transactions Face Multiple Risks: BIS
Risks include operations and security, governance, legal, settlement finality and compliance, the report said.
It's a Different Sort of Olympics as Cryptographers Face Off in Polyhedra's 'Proof Arena'
This team of cryptographers claimed their "prover" – a key component of many blockchain systems – was faster than anyone else's. Now they've built a platform they say will provide transparent benchmarking for anyone who wants to compare the various options out there.
Bitcoin's 'OP_CAT' Possibilities Teased in StarkWare Test Project
StarkWare used its new STARK verifier on the Signet network, a testing environment for Bitcoin, in a proof-on-concept project designed to demonstrate what the oldest blockchain might be capable of were the pending "OP_CAT" technical proposal to get adopted.
Polygon's New ZK Proving System, 'Plonky3,' Comes as Open-Source Toolkit
Proving systems are a crucial component at the heart of blockchain ecosystems, allowing secondary "rollup" networks to confirm transactions on a base chain like Ethereum. Polygon's prior version, Plonky2, was released in 2022.
