Zero Knowledge is a podcast which goes deep into the tech that will power the emerging decentralised web and the community building this. Covering the latest in zero knowledge research and applications, the open web as well as future technologies and paradigms that promise to change the way we interact — and transact — with one another online. Zero Knowledge is hosted by Anna Rose Follow the show at @ZeroKnowledgefm (https://twitter.com/zeroknowledgefm) or @AnnaRRose (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) If you like the Zero Knowledge Podcast: Join us on Telegram (https://t.me/joinchat/TORo7aknkYNLHmCM) Support our Gitcoin Grant (https://gitc...
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Sep 30, 2026 · 57:27
This week, Anna , Tarun and Nico are joined by JP Aumasson , co-designer of BLAKE3, author of Serious Cryptography and cryptography engineer at Cloudflare . They revisit the…
Sep 23, 2026 · 1:06:30
This week, Anna is joined by Soubhik Deb , Head of Research at EigenLabs , to explore Yukon , a platform for collaborative AI-powered research. Soubhik traces the project’s…
Sep 16, 2026 · 1:01:49
This week, Anna and Kobi are joined by Ron Rothblum , Professor of Computer Science at Technion and researcher at Succinct . They catch up on Ron’s move from theory into…
Sep 9, 2026 · 46:00
This week, Anna catches up with Richard Liang from Peer , formerly ZKP2P. They trace the project’s evolution over the past two years, from their initial ZKP2P product that used…
Aug 5, 2026 · 1:12:01
This week, Anna and Guillermo are joined by Patrick O'Grady , founder of Commonware . They discuss his journey from Coinbase and Avalanche to building Commonware, a Rust library…
Jul 29, 2026 · 1:04:13
In this episode, Anna and Kobi are joined by Alex Hoover , cryptographer and Assistant Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology. They explore Private Information Retrieval…
Jul 15, 2026 · 1:01:57
This week, Anna and Nico are joined by Alex Ozdemir , Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech, to explore the intersection of formal verification and zero knowledge. They begin by…
Jul 8, 2026 · 1:07:07
This week, Anna speaks with Sergey Gorbunov , Engineer at Circle , about Arc , Circle’s new EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain, and its approach to a TEE based on-chain privacy.…
Jul 1, 2026 · 6:04
Last week on the show, we interviewed Benedikt Bünz , Chief Scientist at Espresso Systems and Professor at NYU. The conversation ran long, so we're releasing some of the extra…
Jun 24, 2026 · 1:08:55
In this episode, Anna and Kobi speak with Benedikt Bünz , Chief Scientist at Espresso Systems and Professor at NYU. They start with a quick update on Espresso's architecture, its…
Jun 18, 2026 · 1:13
No main episode this week, but we’ve got an exclusive bonus clip for our zkMesh+ subscribers! Continuing our conversation from last week, Wyatt Benno (ICME) describes the world…
Jun 10, 2026 · 1:07:25
In this episode, Anna and Nico chat with Wyatt Benno , technical founder of ICME Labs . They trace Wyatt’s start into ZK in the ZKHack Discord and Justin Thaler’s study group…
May 27, 2026 · 58:55
This episode was recorded live at zkSummit14 in Rome. In it, Anna and Nico Mohnblatt hosted the live ‘Quantum Question’ panel which began as an interview, but became something…
May 20, 2026 · 53:23
In this episode, Anna chats with Auryn Macmillan , founder of Gnosis Guild . They check in on Zodiac, which started as a DAO toolset and has evolved into a modular access control…
May 6, 2026 · 1:24:35
In this 400th episode, Anna Rose welcomes back Dan Boneh , professor of computer science and electrical engineering at Stanford University, for a wide-ranging conversation on…
Apr 22, 2026 · 1:02:44
In this episode, Anna is joined by co-hosts Guillermo Angeris , Nico Mohnblatt , and Tarun Chitra for a reunion on this 399th episode. They reflect on how they each joined the…
Apr 8, 2026 · 56:15
In this episode, Anna Rose and Nico Mohnblatt speak with Shyam Duraishwami and Emanuele Ragnoli , co-founders of Provably . They trace the origins of Provably, from early work on…
Apr 1, 2026 · 1:12:06
In this episode, Anna Rose and Guillermo Angeris catch up with Dev Ojha , co-founder of Osmosis and longtime ZK researcher. They revisit the story of Osmosis since its 2021…
Mar 25, 2026 · 57:42
https://youtu.be/9u4fu7TiZCA In this episode, Nico Mohnblatt speaks with Alex Hicks from the Ethereum Foundation about formal verification and its role in the lean Ethereum…
Mar 18, 2026 · 39:06
https://youtu.be/Ul2bs8INF0k In this episode Nico Mohnblatt chats with Will Corcoran and Raúl Kripalani from the Ethereum Foundation . This is part 5 in the 6-part leanEthereum…
Mar 11, 2026 · 32:55
https://youtu.be/YWkyvTrwtQU In this episode of the lean Ethereum miniseries, Nico Mohnblatt speaks with Thomas Coratger and Emile from the Ethereum Foundation about the design…
Mar 4, 2026 · 36:43
https://youtu.be/v8SGKS3T-3A In this episode, Nico Mohnblatt speaks with Giacomo Fenzi from EPFL and Antonio Sanso from the Ethereum Foundation . For this 3rd instalment of the…
Feb 25, 2026 · 35:11
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh8hbz1nqxQ In this episode, Nico Mohnblatt speaks with Benedikt Wagner and Dmitry Khovratovich , cryptography researchers at the Ethereum…
Feb 18, 2026 · 35:55
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dad2UonQ9Ag&feature=youtu.be In this episode, Nico Mohnblatt sits down with Justin Drake from the Ethereum Foundation to kick off a miniseries on…
Feb 18, 2026 · 9:19
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbskOlf7oA0 In this episode, Anna Rose and Nico Mohnblatt kick-off a new six-part video miniseries exploring lean Ethereum . Lean Ethereum is a…
Feb 11, 2026 · 1:52
There’s no full-length episode this week, but we wanted to highlighting a new bonus segment available exclusively to zkMesh+ subscribers. In this, we revisit last week’s…
Feb 4, 2026 · 1:02:12
In this episode, Anna Rose and Nico Mohnblatt welcome back Ian Miers , Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland , to continue the conversation from a…
Jan 29, 2026 · 1:20
No full length episode this week, but we have released an additional podcast clip with Sean Bowe to our a zkMesh+ paid subscribers. Sean Bowe is a Zcash core developer and lead…
Jan 21, 2026 · 1:13:49
In this episode, Anna Rose catches up with Sean Bowe , a Zcash core developer now leading work on Tachyon , the upcoming Zcash shielded pool upgrade. They discuss the evolution…
Jan 19, 2026 · 2:32
We share some updates about the upcoming episodes and the ZK Podcast & ZK Hack ecosystem - specifically zkMesh+ launching this Wednesday. zkMesh+ will bring together work from…
Dec 3, 2025 · 14:54
In this end-of-year episode, Anna recaps the major ZK themes of 2025 and gives a preview of what’s coming in 2026 — new episodes, a mini-series, zkSummit14, and the rollout of ZK…
Nov 26, 2025 · 1:02:03
In this episode, Anna Rose and Nico Mohnblatt catch up with Pratyush Mishra , Assistant Professor of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania . They…
Nov 19, 2025 · 1:05:32
In this episode Anna Rose and Nico Mohnblatt chat with Binyi Chen , researcher at Stanford University . They discuss his work on lattice-based folding schemes, revisit…
Nov 12, 2025 · 1:02:59
In this episode, Anna Rose and Tarun Chitra chat with Sora Suegami and Enrico Bottazzi from Machina iO . They explain indistinguishability obfuscation (iO) technology and how…
Nov 5, 2025 · 1:02:21
In this episode, Anna Rose chats with Alex Pruden and Conor Deegan from Project 11 . They revisit the topic of quantum computing and explore the threat it poses to cryptographic…
Oct 22, 2025 · 55:43
In this episode, Anna Rose and Guillermo Angeris talk with Kevin Lacker , creator of Acorn , a theorem prover utilising AI. They explore what theorem provers are, their history,…
Oct 15, 2025 · 1:07:43
In this episode, Anna Rose and Tarun Chitra catch up with Sid Gandhi and Calum Moore from Payy to discuss the Payy private payment system and the newly released Payy credit card.…
Oct 8, 2025 · 52:39
In this episode, Anna Rose chats with Théo Madzou and Michael Elliot from ZKPassport and Obsidion about their ZK-based identity solution. Théo shares his start in ZK through ZK…
Oct 1, 2025 · 1:04:06
In this episode, Anna Rose and Kobi Gurkan chat with Arnaud Brousseau and Jack Kearney from Turnkey about verifiable key management using trusted execution environments (TEEs).…
Sep 24, 2025 · 1:18:02
In this episode, Anna Rose and Nico Mohnblatt catch up with Ian Miers from the University of Maryland , starting with his work on seminal ZK blockchain research, Zerocoin and…
Sep 17, 2025 · 1:04:39
In this episode, Anna Rose chats with David Z and Oleksandr (Sasha) from Privado ID and Billions Network about the evolution of ZK-based identity systems, tracing their roots…
Sep 10, 2025 · 1:17:42
In this episode, Anna Rose and Guillermo Angeris speak with Bobbin Threadbare and Gaylord Warner from Miden to explore their zkVM and edge blockchain architecture. The group also…
Sep 3, 2025 · 1:25:52
In this episode, Anna Rose and Tarun Chitra chat with Huijia (Rachel) Lin from the University of Washington to explore indistinguishability obfuscation (iO), often described as…
Aug 27, 2025 · 1:13:40
In this episode, Anna Rose and Tarun Chitra chat with Vlad and Murat from Lighter , a ZK-powered perp DEX on Ethereum. They explore how perps, short for perpetuals/perpetual…
Aug 20, 2025 · 1:23:58
In this episode, Anna Rose and Nico Mohnblatt catch up with Justin Drake from the Ethereum Foundation to explore Ethproofs , asking what exactly is Ethproofs: is it a meme, a…
Aug 13, 2025 · 1:09:27
In this episode, Anna Rose and Kobi Gurkan chat with Vikas Rushi from PSE , and Ying Tong to explore t wo topics at the intersection of ZK and the real-world data : zkPDF and…
Aug 6, 2025 · 1:12:26
In this episode, Anna Rose and Tarun Chitra chat with Miranda Christ , a computer science PhD student at Columbia University , about the intersection of cryptography and AI…
Jul 30, 2025 · 50:39
In this episode, Anna Rose welcomes back Daniel Kang professor at UIUC and founding technical advisor at VAIL , for an update on ZKML and how the space has evolved since early…
Jul 23, 2025 · 1:15:35
In this episode, Anna Rose and Guillermo Angeris catch up with Muthu Venkitasubramaniam , Professor of Computer Science at Georgetown University and cofounder of Ligero . They…
Jul 16, 2025 · 49:36
In this episode, Anna Rose and Nico Mohnblatt speak with Dan and Sinu from TLSNotary to trace the project’s journey from early Bitcoin forum ideas to its current role as a…
Jul 9, 2025 · 1:02:13
In this episode, Anna Rose and Nico Mohnblatt speak with Goblin Oats from Tonk and grjte from Bain Capital Crypto to explore the emerging world of local-first architecture.…
Jul 2, 2025 · 1:12:59
In this episode, Anna Rose speaks with Florent Tavernier from Self and Marek Olszewski from Self and Celo to explore how Self are bringing identity onchain using ZK, the Sybil…
Jun 25, 2025 · 1:24:24
In this episode, Anna Rose and Tarun Chitra catch up with Kostas Kryptos from Mysten Labs to explore the latest ZK innovations being built on Sui . Kostas shares updates on…
Jun 18, 2025 · 1:09:04
In this episode, Anna sits down with David Wong from zkSecurity to discuss the impact of AI on the field of zero-knowledge auditing. David shares how his team is integrating AI…
Jun 11, 2025 · 1:04:07
In this episode, Anna and Nico speak with Abhi Shelat and Matteo Frigo from Google about their work integrating zero-knowledge proofs into the Google Wallet. They discuss the…
Jun 4, 2025 · 58:24
In this episode, Anna speaks with Madhavan ( Maddy ) Malolan from Reclaim Protocol about his work on zkTLS and its applications in web data verification. Maddy shares the journey…
May 14, 2025 · 51:30
In this episode, Anna and Nico speak with Matthew Klein and Albert Garreta from Nethermind about their work implementing and advancing lattice-based cryptography systems,…
May 7, 2025 · 1:16:46
In this episode, Anna and Guillermo are joined by Alex Obadia and Nicola Greco , co-authors of the Quantum Punks Manifesto , for a discussion at the intersection of quantum…
Apr 30, 2025 · 1:05:14
In this episode, Anna and Nico speak with Vadim Lyubashevsky , research scientist at IBM Research, about the evolving field of lattice-based cryptography and its role in…
Apr 23, 2025 · 1:07:57
This week, Anna speaks with Lasha Antadze , co-founder of Rarilabs and Rarimo , about the evolution of digital identity systems. Lasha shares his journey from working with…
Apr 16, 2025 · 1:14:47
In this episode, Anna and Guillermo speak with Professor Jelena Vučković from Stanford's Nanoscale and Quantum Photonics Lab about the fascinating world of quantum engineering.…
Apr 9, 2025 · 51:43
In this episode Anna explores the contentious topic of ZK benchmarking with Conner Swann , founder of ProofLab . Drawing parallels with AI's development, they explore how tools…
Apr 2, 2025 · 1:04:51
In this episode Anna dives back into the topic of prover networks & prover marketplaces with Norbert Vadas , Head of Product at ZkCloud . They kick off by mapping out different…
Mar 25, 2025 · 1:31:31
This week, we present the third installment in the Zero Knowledge Systems story. In this episode, Anna chats with Austin Hill , one of the original founders of Zero Knowledge…
Mar 19, 2025 · 1:03:08
This week Anna catches up with Aayush Gupta from ZK Email , covering the latest developments and real-world applications of the ZK Email protocol. They explore how the project…
Mar 12, 2025 · 1:07:44
This week Anna chats with Jeffrey Scholz , founder of RareSkills . They discuss onboarding developers into ZK and dive into RareSkills' education program via The ZK Book and…
Mar 5, 2025 · 1:05:07
This week Anna jumps back into the story of Zero Knowledge Systems with Jonathan Wilkins , cofounder Blockstream and Cloaked Services and previous employee of ZKS back in 2000.…
Feb 26, 2025 · 1:10:00
This week Anna and Tarun chat with Mert Mumtaz . Mert is the co-founder and CEO of Helius and is known for his contributions to the Solana ecosystem. They explore Mert’s…
Feb 19, 2025 · 1:06:44
Read transcript This week Anna catches up with Nico , Guillermo and Alex from Bain Capital Crypto to discuss two of their recent works; ZODA: Zero-Overhead Data Availability by…
Feb 12, 2025 · 1:20:25
This week, Anna and Nico chat with Andrew Lu and Vivek Bhupatiraju from Cursive . They map out the timeline of their in-person activations and experiments using programmable…
Feb 5, 2025 · 16:03
We’re back with a new look and a new jingle! In this episode, ZK Podcast returns, and host Anna Rose shares a story from her past that strangely connects to the present day and…
Dec 23, 2024 · 58:02
Summary This week, Anna catches up with cohosts, Tarun , Nico and Guillermo to do a look back at the zk research and applications that came out in 2024. They go on to discuss the…
Nov 27, 2024 · 1:03:05
Summary In this week’s episode, Anna catches up with Dan Boneh , Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Stanford University. They discuss the focus of his…
Oct 16, 2024 · 1:09:51
Summary This week, Anna and Nico take a look back at some of the ZK Events produced in 2024 by the ZK Podcast, ZK Hack and other adjacent projects. Starting with the live ZK…
Oct 9, 2024 · 1:00:58
Summary This week Anna chats with Mikerah Quintyne-Collins from HashCloak and Stoffel Labs . They discuss how Mikerah got her start in the crypto space and then dive into the…
Oct 2, 2024 · 56:48
Summary This week Anna catches up with Zac Williamson & Ariel Gabizon from Aztec . They cover what each has been working on over the last year, Zac shared updates about the…
Sep 25, 2024 · 56:58
Summary This week Anna and Nico chat with Lukas Helminger and Ais Connolly from TACEO . They discuss Lukas & Ais’ early work in cryptography and privacy preserving technologies,…
Sep 18, 2024 · 1:23:52
Summary This week Anna and Zaki Manian dive into the Cosmos ecosystem and ask the question: is Cosmos Dead? They explore key events, teams and players who worked on Cosmos during…
Sep 11, 2024 · 1:14:52
Summary In this week’s episode, Anna and Tarun catch up with Andrew Miller . They cover his early work on consensus, ZK and MPC before switching focus to the topic of his current…
Sep 4, 2024 · 1:29:29
Summary This week Anna and Nico chat with Arnaud Schenk , one of the original co-founders of Aztec and creator of the Polaris Fellowship . They discuss Arnaud’s recent blog post…
Aug 28, 2024 · 1:11:05
Summary In this week’s episode Anna and Tarun chat with Naveen Durvasula about his recent work ‘ Robust Restaking Networks ’. They discuss Naveen’s early work on matching markets…
Aug 21, 2024 · 1:02:37
Summary In this week’s episode, Anna chats with Connor O’Hara from Celestia . After discussing the latest ZK Hack Montréal event where Connor was a judge, they dive into his…
Aug 14, 2024 · 1:16:03
Summary In this week’s episode, Anna chats with Jens Groth and Daniel Marin from Nexus . They catch up on all things Groth16 with the author himself before diving into a variety…
Jul 31, 2024 · 1:09:51
Summary In this week’s episode, Anna and Guille catch up with Joe Bonneau , Assistant Professor at NYU and Research Partner at a16z crypto research . They discuss the research…
Jul 24, 2024 · 1:04:26
Summary In this week’s episode Anna chats with Ismael Hishon-Rezaizadeh , Founder and CEO at Lagrange Labs and Charalampos (Babis) Papamanthou , Head of Research at Lagrange and…
Jul 18, 2024 · 1:33:14
Summary In this week’s episode, Anna and Tarun sit down with Hart Lambur irl at EthCC week in Brussels. They start by exploring Hart’s project Across - a cross-chain…
Jul 15, 2024 · 1:51
This week's ZK Podcast episode will be delayed to Thursday this week due to Brussels mania. In the meantime, we wanted to highlight the upcoming ZK Hack Montreal event, happening…
Jul 10, 2024 · 1:22:44
Summary In this week’s episode, Anna and Tarun meet with Varun Srinivasan , co-founder of Farcaster . They explore the Farcaster project, discussing the ideas that prompted its…
Jul 3, 2024 · 1:00:04
Summary In this week’s episode, Anna and Guille chat with Ying Tong Lai from Geometry Research and Bryan Gillespie from Inversed Tech about their latest research and works to…
Jun 26, 2024 · 1:10:47
Summary In this week’s episode Anna and Nico chat with Alessandro Chiesa , Associate Professor at EPFL and Eylon Yogev , Professor at Bar-Ilan University. They discuss their…
Jun 19, 2024 · 1:07:11
Summary In this week’s episode, Anna and Tarun chat with Sims Gautam and Liam Eagen from Alpen Labs . They dive into the world of Bitcoin L2s and focus on how ZK can be used to…
Jun 12, 2024 · 51:22
Summary In this week’s episode Anna chats with Shumo and Yi from NEBRA . They discuss how NEBRA UPA, or Universal Proof Aggregation, can mitigate the high price of putting ZKPs…
Jun 5, 2024 · 1:12
There is no episode this week, but wanted to highlight the upcoming ZK Hack Montreal event, happening Aug 9-11 2024. This is the 4th IRL zk-focused hackathon produced by ZK Hack.…
May 29, 2024 · 1:03:55
Summary In this week’s episode Anna and Kobi chat with Muthu Venkitasubramaniam and Carmit Hazay from Ligero . They discuss their work on MPC and ZK for the last 20 years and how…
May 22, 2024 · 59:09
Summary In this week’s episode Anna chats with Tracy Livengood , co-founder of Pluto ; an applied cryptography org building developer tools which add verifiable data from web…
May 15, 2024 · 52:22
Summary This week, Anna and Nico catch up with Antonio Sanso , Researcher at the Ethereum Foundation and Youssef El Housni , Engineer at ConsenSys and builder of Linea . They…
May 8, 2024 · 1:22:47
Summary This week, Anna and Tarun catch up with Georgios Konstantopoulos , CTO of Paradigm and long-standing friend of the ZK Pod! First they cover the work Georgios has been…
May 1, 2024 · 1:23:58
In this week’s episode, Anna and Guillermo catch up with Justin Thaler , Associate Professor at Georgetown and Research Partner at a16z . The group dive into a handful of points…
Apr 24, 2024 · 1:00:30
In this week’s episode, Anna and Kobi chat with Gal Arnon , Ph.D student from the Weizmann Institute of Science & Giacomo Fenzi , Ph.D. student in the COMPSEC Lab at EPFL . Gal…
Apr 17, 2024 · 1:02:30
In this week’s episode, Anna and Brendan Farmer catch up with Ben Fisch , CEO of Espresso Systems . They explore the inner workings of the current L2 sequencing landscape and…
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