Revisiting Hardware with Ingonyama

In this week’s episode, Anna chats with Omer Shlomovits and Yuval Domb from Ingonyama. They go back to the start of the project, exploring Ingonyama’s initial vision for what ZK Hardware could be, how the field has evolved and how they are accelerating ZK Hardware today. The group discuss hardware product cycles, the hardware and algorithmic components, how a ZK ASIC is developed, they review some of the latest research from Ingonyama and more.Here’s some additional links for this episode:Episode 158: Threshold Cryptography with Omer Shlomovits from ZenGoEpisode 258: Ultrasound Money & VRFs with Justin Drake The first ever SNARK proving ASIC tweet by drakefjustinEpisode 266: ZK Hardware Sessions with Zprize Pt. 1Episode 267: ZK Hardware Sessions with Zprize Pt. 2 ZK10: ZPU: The Zero-Knowledge Processing Unit - Yuval DombSupranational WebsiteAccseal Twitter Episode 311: The Launch of Celestia and Beyond Episode 308: Avail’s Approach to DA with Prabal Banerjee Episode 301: EigenLayer @ DevconnectICICLE GitHub by Igonyama Lazzo + Jolt by a16z HyperPlonk: Plonk with Linear-Time Prover and High-Degree Custom Gates by Chen, Bünz, Boneh and Zhang E The Sum-Check Protocol over Fields of Small Characteristic by Thaler Episode 303: A Dive into Binius with UlvetannaSumcheck 201 Paper by Ingonyama Applications to attend zkSummit11 are now open, head over to the zkSummit website to apply now. The event will be held on 10 April in Athens, Greece.Aleo is a new Layer-1 blockchain that achieves the programmability of Ethereum, the privacy of Zcash, and the scalability of a rollup.This is an invitation to be part of a...