Research & Projects

A non-exhaustive, somewhat-ordered list of papers, projects and talks that I have given.

Papers

• [CMKL24] Pricing Factors and TFMs for Scalability-Focused ZK-Rollups.
• [MSGJ24] Arke: Scalable and Byzantine Fault Tolerant Privacy-Preserving Contact Discovery, ACM CCS '24.
• [Moh23] Sangria: a Folding Scheme for PLONK.

Projects

• ZK Whiteboard Sessions: Season 2, content curation and hosting modules.
• ZK Jargon Decoder, creator and maintainer.
• ZeroKnowledge Podcast co-host.
• Aptos Keyless early circuit audit.
• Paper Speedrun series. A series of short and accessible paper summaries for the Geometry blog.
• Experimental implementation of functional commitments [BNO21] using arkworks.
• An arkworks-based library for Mental Poker using threshold encryption and NARKs, with companion blog posts (Pt1 and Pt2).
• Proof-toolbox: a collection of common tools used in ZK applications.

Selected Talks

• Panel on Advances and Narrative of ZK in 2024, with Jim Posen and Anna Rose. Web3 Summit, Berlin. Aug 2024.
• Under the Hood of ZK x ID. Web3 Summit, Berlin. Aug 2024. 📃
• Arke: Privacy-Preserving and Decentralized Contact Discovery, joint work with Alberto Sonnino, Kobi Gurkan and Philipp Jovanovic. ZK Summit 11, Athens. Apr 2024. 📃
• Sangria is Relaxed PLONK: a Nova-like Folding Scheme for PLONK. ZK Summit 9, Lisbon. Apr 2023. 📃
• Enabling Decentralized Card Games with Zero-knowledge Proofs. ZKProof 5 (Ingonyama side event), Tel Aviv. Nov 2022. 📃