Honest Majority
1 Executive Summary
Honest Majority by Common Prefix explores the people and ideas shaping trust technology. Guests share their journey into the space, the technical problems they are solving, and where they see the next five years of secure, scalable, and interoperable distributed systems headed.
- Can Data Availability be Zero-Knowledge — Alex Evans, partner at Bain Capital Crypto
2 Episodes
1. Can Data Availability be Zero-Knowledge
In the inaugural episode of Honest Majority, we speak with Alex Evans (Bain Capital Crypto) about the evolving relationship between data availability and zero-knowledge proofs in blockchain systems. The conversation begins with Alex’s path into crypto and research, before diving into the fundamentals of data availability and recent advances in zero-knowledge data availability constructions. We examine the theoretical guarantees these approaches offer, the trade-offs they introduce in terms of assumptions and complexity, and where current research still falls short. The episode concludes with a discussion of open problems and how these ideas may shape the design of future blockchain protocols.
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