Talks and Panels

Zircuit researchers have given over fifty talks on rollups, bridges, and security. This page lists them including links to recordings when they are available.

  1. Optimizing ZK-Rollups: Unlocking Cost-Effective Proving Infrastructure

  2. Designing for Change: The Modular Architecture of Zircuit Prover

  3. Challenges of Replicating Historical Exploits

  4. Smart Contract Families in Solidity

  5. EIP-7702: Programmable Accounts and the Future of UX on Ethereum and Rollups

  6. An Introduction to EIP-7702

  7. Challenges of Bringing a zkTrie to the OP Stack

  8. Rollups Unfiltered: What We Wish We Knew While Building Zircuit

  9. Using AI to Secure Dapps and Users

  10. Panel: Will All Optimistic Rollups become zkRollups?

    • ZK Hub at DevCon 7, Bangkok, Thailand, 2024.

  11. Panel: Modularity - Along with Avail, Swell

    • AltLayer Rollup Day at DevCon 7, Bangkok, Thailand, 2024.

  12. Enhancing L2 Security with Sequencer-Level Protection: Insights from the Zircuit Network

    • DeFi Security Summit, Bangkok, Thailand, 2024.

  13. Panel: Integrating L2 Innovations: Cross-Chain Collaborations and Hybrid Models

  14. Workshop: Getting Started with Zircuit: Building a Secure & Scalable DApp on Layer 2

    • ZK Hub at DevCon 7, Bangkok, Thailand, 2024.

  15. Accelerating Zero-Knowledge Proofs Computations with GPUs

    • ZKAccelerate at DevCon 7, Bangkok, Thailand, 2024.

  16. Polynomial Commitment Schemes for Zero-Knowledge Proof Systems

    • DevCon 7, Bangkok, Thailand, 2024.

  17. Robust, Distributed, and Prover-Agnostic Proof Orchestration

    • Invisible Garden - Antalpha Hacker House, Bangkok, Thailand, 2024.

  18. Designing for Change: The Modular Architecture of Zircuit Prover

  19. Abstract Interpretation for PLONKish Circuits

    • 34th International Conference on Collaborative Advances in Software and COmputiNg (CASCON), Toronto, ON, Canada, 2024.

  20. Smart Contract Families in Solidity

    • 34th International Conference on Collaborative Advances in Software and COmputiNg (CASCON), Toronto, ON, Canada, 2024.

  21. State of the Art EVM: Techniques and Benchmarks Building L2s

    • Google Zero Knowledge (ZK) Summit, Sunnyvale, CA, USA, 2024.

  22. Panel: Interoperability and Cross-Chain Solutions: Enhancing Web3 Ecosystem in APAC

    • Aggregation Cave at EDCON 2024, Tokyo, Japan, 2024.

  23. Introduction to Layer Three Networks

    • Aggregation Cave at EDCON 2024, Tokyo, Japan, 2024.

  24. Panel: ZK Proofs: Pioneering Privacy, Efficiency and Transformative Applications

    • Proof of Talk, Paris, France, 2024.

    • Panelists: Kurt Hemecker (CEO, MINA), Diego Fernandez (Innovation & Digital Department, QuarkID), Anthony Day (Head of Strategy & Marketing - Midnight, IOHK), Martin Derka (Co-Founder, Zircuit).

  25. Panel: ZK Proof Generation Infrastructure: Overhyped or Underutilized?

    • ETH Prague, Prague, Czech Republic, 2024.

    • Panelists: Martin Derka (Co-Founder, Zircuit), Tomas Eminger (Head of Staking Infrastructure, RockawayX), zpedro (Aztek Network), Tibor Tribus (Co-Founder, Maya-ZK).

  26. Panel: L2 Panel @ ETH Taipei

    • ETH Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan, 2024.

    • Panelists: Jordi Baylina (Co-founder, Polygon-Hermez), Vitalik Buterin (Ethereum Foundation), Martin Derka (Co-Founder, Zircuit), Karl Floersch (CEO, OP Labs), Queenie Wu.

  27. Sequencer Level Security

  28. SoK: Compression in Rollups

    • IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC), Dublin, Ireland, 2024.

  29. Panel: ZK Season in 2024 : Hype VS. Reality

    • L3 Summit at Token 2049, Dubai, UAE, 2024.

  30. Panel: Unlocking Scalability: Founders' Perspectives on ZK

    • Google Web3 Roadshow Dubai, Dubai, UAE, 2024.

  31. Panel: EVM Equivalence in Rollups

    • Ethereum Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, 2024.

  32. A Rollup Comparison Framework

    • ChainScience 2024, Zurich, Switzerland, 2024.

  33. Sequencer Level Security

    • Ethereum Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, 2024.

    • ETH Denver, Denver, CO, USA, 2024.

  34. Zircuit: A Security-Focused ZK Rollup Built on the OP Stack

    • ETH Denver, Denver, CO, USA, 2024.

  35. Zircuit: Challenges of Building an EVM Equivalent ZK Rollup on the OP-Stack

    • Epic Infra Day, Istanbul, Turkiye, 2023.

    • ETH Denver, Denver, CO, USA, 2024.

  36. Attacks on Rollups

    • 4th International Workshop on Distributed Infrastructure for the Common Good (DICG), Bologna, Italy, 2023.

  37. A Rollup Security Framework

    • Epic L2 Day, New York City, NY, USA, 2023.

    • L2Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland, 2023.

  38. Lightweight Formal Methods in dApp Development

  39. Automated Analysis of Halo2 Circuits

    • 21st International Workshop on Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT), Rome, Italy, 2023.

  40. Towards Satisfactory Web3 Software Engineering

    • 14th Pragmatics of SAT International Workshop, Alghero, Italy, 2023.

  41. Evaluating Rollup Compression

    • ETH Portland, Portland, OR, USA, 2023.

  42. Automated Flash Loan Attack Synthesis

  43. Quantstamp's Ethereum Grants

  44. Smart Contract Development

  45. Linting Halo2 Circuits

    • ZKSummit 9, Lisbon, Portugal, 2023.

    • ETH Denver, Denver, CO, USA, 2023.

  46. Why L2s Are the Key to Onboarding Billions

  47. Not Quite Water Under the Bridge

    • IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC), Dubai, UAE, 2023.

    • Berkeley Blockchain Xcelerator, Berkeley, CA, USA, 2023.

    • ETH Portland (2022), Portland, OR, USA, 2022.

    • ETH Denver, Denver, CO, USA, 2022.

  48. The Impact of Chain Forks and Reorgs on Cross-chain Bridges

  49. Protecting Bridges from Most Recent Hacks

  50. Ideal Properties of Rollup Escape Hatches

    • 3rd International Workshop on Distributed Infrastructure for the Common Good (DICG), Quebec, QC, Canada, 2022.

    • DevCon 6, Bogota, Colombia, 2022.

  51. An Overview and Wishlist of Rollup Escape Hatches

  52. The Blockchain Bridge You Dream About

  53. The Proper Treatment of Randomness

  54. EVM-to-EVM Bridges: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

  55. How to Hack a Bridge in 2022

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