Scaling Up Blockchains with Zero-Knowledge Proofs

a16z Crypto general partner Ali Yahya speaks with Alex Gluchowski and Alex Vlasov, co-founders of Matter Labs; and Dan Boneh, professor of computer science at Stanford University; about the the "beautiful" technology behind zero-knowledge proofs and how zkSync enables Ethereum to scale in a way that preserves its values of decentralization and security.
For more information:
About a16z's investment in Matter Labs: a16z.com/2021/11/08/investing...
About zkSync: zksync.io/
Want to work at Matter Labs? They're hiring! www.notion.so/Career-at-Matte...

[@toniwitt]

Great stuff, a16z. Blockchain is definitely one of those 'zeitgeist-fit' technologies that actually stand for something: inclusion, transparency, security. Can't wait for the next episode!

[@MrNjpcoster]

How come you cut out the answer around HOW they actually managed to build this in solidity???

[@kaioh33]

I thought i was the only one who noticed this. It would have been very interesting to know how they did it given how it was described as almost impossible

[@ramdas363]

So infuriating, fucking VC talks. Alex probably said too much, competitors and we under-invested plebs aren't supposed to know their secret formula.

[@LeroyPeterson]

Great discussion, thank you!

[@hiringcafe]

Congrats on the launch!!!!

[@walterrodriguez9550]

This is an awesome discussion!!

[@cryptoholic5120]

Great stuff guys

[@jennachang3269]

Thank you so much :)

[@Dufftata]

this was really fu cking awesome to watch

[@Not_YahyaRoblox789]

GREAT!

[@ahmadmohamad2075]

How/When can we invest in ZK Sync?

[@alexandremorey8993]

Following

[@askjayk]

still waiting for an answer on this

[@aryan3229]

Decentralised state machine is a better analogy

[@aryan3229]

AWS: Centralized state machine Ethereum: Decentralised State Machine

[@robertzabinski6083]

Just found your channel when your 2018 video,. "A Skeptic's View of Crypto..." popped into my reccomended vids. Would have liked have read the comments on that one, but none are available for viewing. The speaker made a number of claims that I'm sure stimulated some lively debate. It speaks volumes about your channel that comments for that subject were disabled. Sad commentary. Had I been able to read a lively debate in that comment section I might have become a subscriber.

[@RichardBoase]

"Fully programmable blockchains like Ethereum"... which calculate everything in serial. Oops.

[@user-rjd38xme13z]

soon L2 blockchains will be focused by the market :D to the moon

[@007us]

I feel ETH is going to be less secure for all ETH transactions

[@ramdas363]

You don't *have* to use L2 solutions of course.

[@maxwo1711]

pirate chain and dero

[@sreckohorvat2298]

Pirate lol. somebody took your booty

[@em-jj5ds]

hahaha bitoin already scales ahaha you really believed the small blocker lies??

[@basantagoswami]

I'm sure he suffered severe consequences financially for believing them

[@em-jj5ds]

@@basantagoswami imagine unironically commenting "the market has spoken" on a vc yt channel

[@basantagoswami]

@@em-jj5ds imagine having fun staying poor