zk-SNARK News

Cryptomeria Capital’s Vadim Krekotin provided a comprehensive overview of ZK roll-ups at ETHBarcelona, shedding light on the differences between optimistic and zero-knowledge roll-ups while highlighting their potential applications beyond the crypto industry. Vadim Krekotin, the founding partner of a crypto-focused…

Crypto exchange OKX, a well-known exchange, has published its eighth consecutive monthly report on proof-of-reserves (PoR). The report reveals the balances of BTC, ETH, and USDT held by OKX, totaling a significant amount of $11.3 billion. According to the report,…

Ethereum CEO and co-founder Vitalik Buterin proposed using zk-snarks to strengthen the privacy and robustness of Merkle tree exchange proof of reserves and in holding client funds in some kind, like a validium smart contract. CZ also agreed with the…

After seven months, a Zero-Knowledge Proof Optimistic Rollup (Zkopru) implementation for Ethereum is ready for testing as per the latest update on July 19, 2020. The Layer-2 fraud-proof solution not only introduces privacy to ether, ERC-20, and ERC-721 transactions but also…

IOST (IOST), a distributed ledger technology (DLT) project that claims to be focused on delivering the “Internet of Services,” has joined forces with Suterusu, a project that claims to function as a more transparent Zcash (ZEC), with smart contract support.…

On December 17, 2019, decentralized web blockchain project TRON CEO Justin Sun, tweeted that the initiative is set to beta-test its shielded transactions which hide the sender and receiver’s addresses, transaction input and output, and the amount transacted. TRON Jumping…