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gubsheep is the creator of Dark Forest and runs applied ZK research and development at 0xPARC.

gubsheep

Zero Knowledge, aka ZK, has become a catch-all term to represent much of "modern" or "advanced" cryptography -- especially cryptography that's relevant to the future of blockchains. 

In this panel, we will share our perspectives on ZK -- how to think about it, what to look out for, and what to focus in on. We'll also discuss how ZK may alter and complement Ethereum's own future.

Talk 5 - Opening Ceremonies

Albert Ni

Barry Whitehat

Vitalik Buterin

What to know about Zero Knowledge

We'll present an overview of learnings from 3 years of building and running Dark Forest, the first fully decentralized MMORTS, including: why ZK is important for games, what a crypto-native game is and why we should care, designing for emergent player behavior, pushing the limits of Ethereum devex, and social consensus and legitimacy - why is Dark Forest more like chess than League of Legends? We'll also hint at 0xPARC's next crypto-gaming experiments.

Dark Forest: Lessons from 3 Years of On-Chain Gaming

This panel celebrates the Ethereum ecosystem’s global impact thus far, but also look towards the future to answer the questions: What’s missing in the ecosystem? What would we like people to work on? What are Ethereum’s priorities?

Workshop 1

Auryn Macmillan

Jacob is VP of Partnerships at ETHGlobal and has been part of the ETHGlobal team since before there was an ETHGlobal!

Jacob Willemsma

Mauricio Tovar (Moderator)

Romina Ayelén Sejas

Web3 is Going Great

ZK Security SLS - Opening Remarks

Historically, cryptographic protocols have been built special-purpose for specific kinds of claims or information hiding mechanisms. zkSNARKs and other new cryptographic tools move us to a world of "general-purpose" cryptography, where we have expressive languages to express claims about digital identity, reputation, and more. We discuss a high-level framework for thinking about where and why ZK and related technologies might (or might not) be useful for digital applications.