ZK Study Group Session 6: Groth16 & Plonk (2)

Hi everyone! Welcome to our Zero Knowledge Study Group event, where we will be diving into the exciting world of zero-knowledge proofs.

This is the sixth session of the study group series, where we dive deeper into ZK-SNARKS, trying to understand the Groth16 and Plonk proof system! Since we've covered the Groth16 proof system last session, this session we'll be covering exclusively Plonk in depth!

This session will utilise knowledge from all the previous sessions, so remember to do some revision before coming!

The core materials:

• All of Moonmath (We already went through some for our previous sessions): https://leastauthority.com/community-matters/moonmath-manual/
• Plonk, explained by David Wong: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUZcam_jrz0&list=PLBJMt6zV1c7Gh9Utg-Vng2V6EYVidTFCC
• Plonk, ZK Whiteboard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uldlq35Se3k

Supplementary materials

• Vitalik's Articles on Zk-SNARK
• Plonk paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/953.pdf
• Plonk Rust Code examples: https://github.com/dusk-network/plonk - Plonk, explained by Vitalik: https://vitalik.ca/general/2019/09/22/plonk.html
• Plonk, explaination wtih graphics:

1. https://xiaohuiliu.medium.com/how-plonk-works-part-1-bc8050f4805e

2. https://xiaohuiliu.medium.com/how-plonk-works-part-2-1072dcd7634a

If you're interested and not in the group already, fill up the forms for the event!
https://forms.gle/RJV6NneDgvY37bKZA