zk-SNARKs (Zero-Knowledge Succinct Noninteractive Argument of Knowledge) are a cryptographic technology that allows one party (the “prover”) to demonstrate knowledge of certain information to another ...

Data privacy has been a hot topic lately. The revelation that millions of Facebook users’ data were breached by the political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica has sent a jolt through the tech world ...

What is zero-knowledge-proof (ZKP) technology and how does it work? ZKPs are cryptographic protocols that, as their name implies, prevent eavesdroppers from accessing data or violating privacy ...

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A form of cryptography pioneered by zcash might help scale ethereum, the founder of the platform Vitalik Buterin said on a research forum Saturday. Named zk-snarks, Buterin wrote that by using the ...

Zk-SNARK, which stands for zero-knowledge succinct non-interactive argument or knowledge, is the most popular zero-knowledge protocol. This a space of increasing importance, as zero knowledge systems ...

Ethereum privacy startup Aztec announces the launch of its zero-knowledge SNARKs generation via a cryptographic computation ceremony called Ignition. Ethereum (ETH) privacy startup Aztec announced the ...

Researchers working on the zcash protocol announced today they've invented a new way to speed up the anonymous cryptocurrency. Today, zcash, the seventeenth-largest cryptocurrency by market ...