Jordi Baylina of Polygon zkEVM | Zero Knowledge, Privacy, Scalability, and Building Useful Technology
Hashing It OutThe Hashing It Out team sits down with Jordi Baylina to discuss everything from his involvement in the Catalan independence movement, Dappnode, and Giveth to technical details associated with bringing privacy and compression to ZK proofs via recursion. This is a special episode with someone who has been involved in the Ethereum ecosystem for many years. Jordi, a white hat hacker, has been building public goods infrastructure and protecting people on the Internet for many years.
Timestamps
00:00|Intros
03:10|Dappnode, Giveth, Catalan independence movement, and useful technology
06:14|Infrastructure decentralisation connection to the Internet
06:55|ISPs and Spanish government censor voting in the Catalan Independence Movement
08:38|What does it mean for technology to work appropriately?
11:10|My mission
12:00|Why is ZK technology so important right now
14:50|Zero-knowledge is not only privacy. Also for validity and scalability
17:35|Tradeoffs between privacy and compression in zero-knowledge proofs
19:20|Recursion, aggregation, and trees of proofs
21:00|What are the downfalls of current implementation of zkEVMs building on Ethereum
22:45|Is privacy a requirement for working?
23:40|Efficient aggregation of proofs in the context of data storage systems
28:10|Speeding up msn operations and speed requirements
31:00|Keeping up with the pace of research
34:00|Building proficient teams
38:25|Speeding up the learning curve
40:00|Scaling Ethereum, liquid democracy, anonymous voting, data privacy, and other goals
44:14|Scalability, usability, and challenges facing utility
45:10|Prioritising features, work, and releases
49:20|Risk assessment in the ecosystem
51:40|Define ZK in 10 words or less
52:40|Is what you do hard?
54:40|Follow up roundtable with Corey, D, and Jessie
Episode hosts - Demetrick Fergurson, Corey Petty, Jessie Santiago
Produced by - Christian Noguera
And edited by - Christian Noguera