ivolkg

Research Engineer Cryptography Zero Knowledge & other Math stuff | Prev @Nethermind

[functionSPACE @functionspaceHQ]

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[functionSPACE @functionspaceHQ]

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[functionSPACE @functionspaceHQ]

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Game 2 tomorrow, can Nick hit another crazy pick?

[functionSPACE @functionspaceHQ]

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[_calabash_ @__calabash__]

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[ivolkg @ivolkg]

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[Nethermind @Nethermind]

@EFDevcon @ethereum Audits, formal verification, and preventive assurance for smart contracts and protocols.

Our team brings deep expertise in cryptography, zero-knowledge systems, and privacy, ensuring rigorous security from design to deployment.

[Thomas Coratger @tcoratger]

Implementing LatticeFold: advancing post-quantum folding by @0xAlbertG from @nethermind

https://t.co/fEN6xyrfsB

[ivolkg @ivolkg]

@balakhonoff AImazing

[Nethermind @Nethermind]

🚀 Embracing the Post-Quantum Era in Folding: Introducing LatticeFold Rust implementation 🌐

The festive season is the perfect time to look ahead and prepare for the challenges of a post-quantum world! With recent breakthroughs in quantum computing, developing future-proof post-quantum (PQ) infrastructure has never been more critical.

At Nethermind, we’re excited to share our Rust implementation of LatticeFold — the first (plausibly) PQ-secure folding scheme, originally designed by @danboneh and @Charles_Chen533. 🎉

🦀Rust Library: https://t.co/tk9i9w4YEE
📄Original Paper: https://t.co/NmqDis1otS

Here's what makes LatticeFold stand out:

1️⃣ PQ-Security: Unlike most state-of-the-art folding schemes that are based on Pedersen or KZG commitments, LatticeFold adopts the Ajtai commitment from lattice-based cryptography, ensuring robust post-quantum security.

2️⃣ STARK-compatibility: LatticeFold operates over cyclotomic rings (instead of fields), which we’ve extended compatibility with several STARK-friendly fields — including Goldilocks, BabyBear, and the Starknet field.
Huge thanks to @cknabs and @GiacomoFenzi for their help with the initial cyclotomic ring implementation! 🙌

⚙ Performance: While LatticeFold is an efficient folding scheme, it currently lags behind HyperNova. For instance, folding witnesses of length |W| = 2^13 takes 269 ms (HyperNova) vs. 608 ms (LatticeFold) on our current setup (AMD EPYC 7713 64-Core with 6 cores, 16 GB memory, no parallelization).

🧑‍💻 User Experience: To ensure usability, we aligned the interface of our library with PSE's Sonobe library, for consistency and ease for developer.

💡 Team Effort: This project represents a massive effort by @IVolkg, Matthew Klein, Emanuel Vieira, Marko Cupic, @Cryptoni0x and @fastreedsolomon. Their dedication and expertise have been instrumental in bringing LatticeFold to life. 🙏 
Special thanks to @0xAlbertG for his invaluable supervision throughout the project.

This work was also made possible thanks to the ZK grant round led by @ethereum and supported by @aztecnetwork, @0Polygon, @Scroll_ZKP, @taikoxyz, and @zksync

Together, we’re building the future of cryptographic innovation.

Read more here: https://t.co/CV2bZWHf95

[ivolkg @ivolkg]

@zkcity @eryxcoop @PrivacyScaling @nethermind @zksync @DablClub @worldnetwork @portport255 @cryptobuilder_ @smpalladino Really great event, thank you for the invite

[MempoolSurfer(.eth|.stark) @mempoolsurfer]

We're working on a @solidity_lang AI auditing tool at @nethermind Security. If you want to test out the early version dm

We're playing with many different distribution mechanisms and want feedback on what would work for you

Imagine a security expert by your side every edit

[ivolkg @ivolkg]

@dcbuilder @fisiroky @tarunchitra It's interesting to find people from physics in crypto, it's like a wake-up call from academia xD
The difference in my case was that I was taking the solid state physics route
Glad to find more physics peeps in here :)

[Nethermind @Nethermind]

Together with Yerevan State University’s scholars, Nethermind Research introduces STARKPack: A batch-proof generation method that reduces the total proof size and verifier time for modern STARKs (compared to sequentially proving each program).

🔗https://t.co/yCAxlxAl9u

Zero-knowledge STARKs (zk-STARKs) are non-interactive proof systems known for their efficient prover and verifier characteristics. In modern STARKs, verifiers often perform the same type of checks to decide whether or not to accept a proof. We propose to use this shared structure to generate proofs for potentially different programs in batches.

By Nethermind Research (@mpfzajac, @nachitomanzur, @0xAlbertG) and Yerevan State University’s @aramjivanyan and Hayk Hovhanissyan.

[ivolkg @ivolkg]

@rmzcrypt Congratulations 🎊🎊🎊

[Zatoshi @Zac_Aztec]

Physics gives you existential dread about what you're doing with your life *years* before your peers get it.

Get ahead by starting early. That's alpha.

[Nethermind @Nethermind]

Nethermind Research contributes to core cryptographic research in blockchain by:

➕ building innovative and efficient cryptographic protocols focusing especially on zero-knowledge proofs

➕ analyzing the security of protocols from first principles, establishing new results that ultimately lead to robust and efficient solutions

We work closely with the Ethereum and Starknet communities & conduct ongoing internal research across several domains.

https://t.co/h7cmjypHi8

[Nethermind @Nethermind]

Introducing Nethermind Research, the research arm of Nethermind, merging the fields of:

🔹 Cryptography research - to improve user privacy and blockchain scalability.

🔸DeFi research - to understand incentives and risk factors of on-chain protocols.

🔹Protocol research - to propose novel L2 designs.

🔸Research solutions - to merge the above fields to design robust blockchain protocols.

[David Wong @cryptodavidw]

props to @nethermind this is the best blogpost I've read in a long time! https://t.co/ciJzarg6hF

[ivolkg @ivolkg]

Thanks for the chance to explain a bit about how zk is used :)

[Beja @0xBeja]

@IVolkg explained STARKs like it was nothing!