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This week, Anna) speaks with Adam Gągol) and Matthew Niemerg) about Aleph Zero - an L1 project mixing ZKPs and MPCs with a DAG consensus algorithm. The aim of their project is to enable private smart contracts. In the conversation, they explore the underlying DAG structure and their privacy solutions that leverage zero-knowledge proofs (zk-SNARKs) and Secure Multiparty Computation (sMPC).
Here are some links for this episode:
Paper - Aleph: Efficient Atomic Broadcast in Asynchronous Networks with Byzantine Nodes)
Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System by Leslie Lamport)
Episode 188: Analyzing Osmosis & Preventing MEV with Sunny and Dev)
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