Month: October 2019

Universal SNARKs, 2019–present, and PLONK benchmarks A refresher on Part 2— the final punchline we want to reach is the enabling of Dark Contracts — allowing

The first generation of SNARKs, 2010–2016 Part 1 of this series introduced the importance of blockchain privacy and the notion of a ZK-SNARK. The Circuit-Specific SNARK

Blockchain Privacy and a Short History of PLONK After a breathless summer of new cryptographic techniques, now seems a good time to flesh out a