A zkSNARK Syllabus - Brian Zhang's blog
This is a backfill note from 2025-06-19. Perhaps the most powerful cryptographic technology to come out of the last decade is general-purpose succinct zero knowledge proofs, usually called zk-SNARKs
This is a backfill note from 2025-06-19. Perhaps the most powerful cryptographic technology to come out of the last decade is general-purpose succinct zero knowledge proofs, usually called zk-SNARKs — Vitalik Buterin, 2021 I’m starting to learn about zkSNARKs, and while there’s a lot I don’t know, I feel I have a basic map of where things fall in the landscape. So I thought I’d write it down for myself and others. This is not meant to be a self-contained primer, but rather to point to what needs to be studied. There are some nice popular-level illustrations of zero-knowledge proofs. In…
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