Recordings https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1I0HOqy0y48rGYGQqDWXY3op0NFfOo5kj?usp=sharing

Call 9.3.2021

Participants

• vmx, dig, porcu, zx, irene, david, anca, nemo, jake, nicolasg

Introduction: Background on where we are coming from and why we are interested

What is Halo2?

Other recursive system ZEXE https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/962.pdf

Next week

• @anca on multipoint openings —> slides

Halo2

• @jake on field arithmetic and curves
• background prep: https://zcash.github.io/halo2/background.html

Call 16.3.2021

Jake presented on Groups & Curves

• Anca presented on Multiopening Commitments
  • https://alinush.github.io/2020/05/06/kzg-polynomial-commitments.html
• Plonk for next call
  • https://research.metastate.dev/plonk-by-hand-part-1/
• Nicola will present on the basics of plonk
• Jake on the constraint system of plonk