ZK Podcast: Stateless Validation with Alin Tomescu

Episode 156. Aired Nov 18, 2020:

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In this week’s episode, Anna and Fredrik chat with Alin Tomescu, a post-doc researcher at VMWare Research Group, about the concept of stateless systems. Specifically, they explore his work on stateless validation, why this would be desirable and what is the research around this topic.

As well as Alin’s previous zkStudy Club episodes!
- zkStudyClub: Alin Tomescu on authenticated dictionaries and cross-incremental proof (dis)aggregation - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrgeQJioCI8
- zkStudyClub: Aggregatable Subvector Commitments with Alin Tomescu VMWare Research -https://youtu.be/KGRnpjPjduI

This episode is packed full of info and Alin shared an amazing list of resources to help you navigate this:

RMCI17e, Improving Authenticated Dynamic Dictionaries, with Applications to Cryptocurrencies, Leonid Reyzin and Dmitry Meshkov and Alexander Chepurnoy and Sasha Ivanov https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/994
CPZ18, Edrax: A Cryptocurrency with Stateless Transaction Validation, 2018, Alexander Chepurnoy and Charalampos Papamanthou and Yupeng Zhang https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/968
BBF18, Batching Techniques for Accumulators with Applications to IOPs and Stateless Blockchains, 2018, Dan Boneh and Benedikt Bünz and Ben Fisch https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/1188
Tome20, How to Keep a Secret and Share a Public Key Using Polynomial Commitments, 2020, Tomescu, Alin, https://alinush.github.io/papers/phd-thesis-mit2020.pdf
CFG+20, Vector Commitment Techniques and Applications to Verifiable Decentralized Storage 2020, Matteo Campanelli and Dario Fiore and Nicola Greco and Dimitris Kolonelos and Luca Nizzardo -https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/149
GRWZ20, Pointproofs: Aggregating Proofs for Multiple Vector Commitments -https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/419, 2020, Sergey Gorbunov and Leonid Reyzin and Hoeteck Wee and Zhenfei Zhang
TAB+20e, Aggregatable Subvector Commitments for Stateless Cryptocurrencies by Alin Tomescu and Ittai Abraham and Vitalik Buterin and Justin Drake and Dankrad Feist and Dmitry Khovratovich https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/527
LGG+20, Aardvark: A Concurrent Authenticated Dictionary with Short Proofs 2020, Derek Leung and Yossi Gilad and Sergey Gorbunov and Leonid Reyzin and Nickolai Zeldovich https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/975
AR20, KVaC: Key-Value Commitments for Blockchains and Beyond 2020, Shashank Agrawal and Srinivasan Raghuraman https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/1161
TXN20, Authenticated Dictionaries with Cross-Incremental Proof (Dis)aggregation 2020, Alin Tomescu and Yu Xia and Zachary Newman https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/1239

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