STROBE: Streaming Threshold Random Beacons
Appearing today at AFT 2023.
It's all about how to flip fair coins robustly and verifiably in public - without needing costly consensus algorithms or zero-knowledge proofs.
https://t.co/SJzUK2NR20
Hello, today we are disclosing two critical trusted-party vulnerabilities in the LayerZero smart contracts. These issues allow the LayerZero team to completely bypass the Oracle and Relayer for most applications (including stargate).
https://t.co/C7Gh6ns56S
Incredible presentation by Kevin Bowers on Firedancer, HPC in trading environments and Jump’s motivations in building crypto infrastructure.
https://t.co/kLhMYq9LIT
1/ Accelerating Multi-scalar Multiplications (MSMs) is essential to making ZKPs fast and cheap.
We’re excited to share a radical improvement in MSM hardware acceleration: https://t.co/Td31OOzfzu
CycloneMSM: A Novel Architecture for Accelerating MSMs on FPGA
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@CouteauGeoffroy@badcryptobitch The protocol in STOC 1996 took the first step, with an interactive protocol.
Non-interactivity was always a desire, and an obvious one at that. “Anticipated,” yes.
Sadly, LWE wasn’t yet in the crypto toolkit. So no, I didn’t achieve silent PCG, but the idea dates to 1995.
@CouteauGeoffroy@badcryptobitch The STOC 1996 paper coins the term “Correlated Pseudorandomness” in reference to PRGs.
Here’s the grail I anticipated and set out to achieve in 1995.
Without interacting - as though each had a fancy PRG - they locally expand their correlated inputs to longer correlated values.
History Generation: a new property for decentralized randomness. Unlike DRAND and co, you only need the latest beacon to produce the whole history down to genesis, favoring light client constructions, i.e. for beacon streams in UDP games (lost packets).
https://t.co/gSoLlYEvgi
@BenCoxMusic I feel like I know less and less over time, so definitely converging on zero knowledge universe. It’s just also being done purposefully in the ledger world.