Over 170 papers have been submitted to cesc.io, making it the conference with the highest number of submissions in blockchain/web3 in history! Really excited about the growing community of web3 research! Register: cesc.io (space limited)& join us!

I'm co-organizing a workshop on Web3 Security web3sec.ws/#/ affiliated with ACSAC 2022 on Dec 5 in Austin. Please submit your papers and join the workshop!!! #WEB3SEC

We are excited to announce zkBridge, the first trustless, permissionless, extensible, and efficient cross-chain bridge. With succinct proofs, zkBridge guarantees strong security without external assumptions. The paper will appear in ACM CCS 2022: zkbridge.org. (1/18)

We are excited to announce zkBridge, the first trustless, permissionless, extensible, and efficient cross-chain bridge. With succinct proofs, zkBridge guarantees strong security without external assumptions. The paper will appear in ACM CCS 2022: zkbridge.org. (1/18)

Join us Oct 30 UC Berkeley: rdi.berkeley.edu/zkp-workshop-2… An amazing list of speakers: Shafi Goldwasser Dan Boneh Stanford University Jordi Baylina - baylina.eth @0xPolygonHermez howardwu.aleo 🦁 Aleo Daniel Lubarov Polygon Zero 💜 Jeremy Bruestle RISC Zero Ye Zhang 📜 Scroll Yu Feng Pratyush Mishra Yupeng Zhang

I am very excited to announce that I’ll be joining the Courant Institute at NYU as an assistant professor of computer science, starting next fall! If you are considering a PhD in crypto (graphy/currency) please do apply (deadline 12/12). We have an amazing crypto/security group!

Cool survey! Glad to see the great performance of zkCNN😎 Tianyi Liu

Our ZKP MOOC (zk-learning.org) has been really exciting with ~3500 enrolled globally! Today we're thrilled to announce a new ZKP/web3 hackathon, open to the public, March 1-May 2, virtual & in-person UC Berkeley, with prizes up to $200K+! Sign up: rdi.berkeley.edu/zkp-web3-hacka…

A personal update: I will join UIUC Illinois ECE in Fall 2023. Many thanks to all my colleagues and friends at A&M for your great support over the years. I'm super excited about fruitful collaborations and wonderful life at Illinois!

(1/4) Authenticated data structures, such as Merkle Patricia tries (MPTs), are extensively used in blockchains. They enable clients to access blockchain state securely and fast. They are also large. They do not fit in memory. For example, @Ethereum is storing MPTs in levelDB.

I'm honored to receive the Google research scholar award! Thank you for the support of my research! ece.illinois.edu/newsroom/66834

Great progress of zkML!

Excited to share our new paper: eprint.iacr.org/2025/1897! We made Groth16 dynamic - proofs can now be efficiently updated when the witness changes slightly. Amazing that after 10 years, we still have new insights of Groth16 and Pinocchio. Joint work with two brilliant new students