ZK Tech You Should Know — Part 1: SNARKs & STARKs
Learn some of the key differences between zk-SNARKs and zk-STARKs.
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Learn some of the key differences between zk-SNARKs and zk-STARKs.
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zkApps are relatively simple to build but there are three fundamental things you should understand first.
We recently released an update to our proof system for Mina called Kimchi. In this post, we’ll go through what Kimchi is and what’s different about it.
Mina builds on Ouroboros to create Ouroboros Samisika, a provably secure PoS protocol that combines the best features of each iteration of Ouroboros to deliver a PoS mechanism that can resolve long-range forks without requiring history or risking centralization by relying on trusted third parties to provide fork information.
Cryptocurrency’s scalability and privacy is one of the most pressing issues across any blockchain ecosystem — whether that’s Bitcoin, Ethereum, or a DeFi token. In this article we go over how zkApps solve the industry’s greatest challenges.
Proof-of-Work (PoW) and Proof-of-Stake (PoS) are the two most common types of consensus mechanisms found in cryptocurrency protocols. Learn more about each and Mina's specific type of PoS consensus, called Ouroboros Samasika.
Legacy blockchains, such as Bitcoin or Dogecoin, face the problem of long waits to verify the entire chain due to their ever-growing size. However, with Mina, participants will be able to fully verify the network and transactions from their ordinary devices using recursive zero knowledge proofs, or zk-SNARKs.
Mina Protocol leverages Ouroboros Samasika, a succinct proof-of-stake consensus mechanism, to achieve strong decentralization properties.
The entire Mina blockchain is about 22kb - the size of a couple of tweets.
In PLONK (considered as an interactive oracle proof), the prover sends the verifier several polynomials. They are evaluated at some k points during the course of the protocol. Of course, if we want zero-knowledge, we would require that those evaluations do not reveal anything about the proof's underlying witness.
Mina uses advanced cryptography and recursive zk-SNARKs to deliver true decentralization at scale.
Getting started with ZK on Mina is simple.