StarkWare Sessions #9 | zk-Hardware with Omer of Ingonyama
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🗓️ 11 February 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Sometimes, the frontier is at a crypto conference. We’re returning from our adventures in Tel Aviv with nine exclusive interviews with some of the key players in the StarkNet space.
Wish you could make it to all the crypto conferences, but don't have the time? Don't worry, Bankless brings the frontier to you.
In this episode, we’re speaking with Omer Shlomovits, founder and CEO of Ingonyama, a next-generation semiconductor company, building specialized hardware for Zero-Knowledge Proofs. It’s not often that we talk hardware on Bankless, so when we do... it's time to pay attention.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
4:00 Ingonyama
7:45 Scaling and Privacy
11:00 Present and Future Computation
13:55 Hardware
19:49 Producing Chips
23:50 Get Involved
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Resources:
Omer Shlomovits
https://www.omershlomovits.com/
Ingonyama
https://twitter.com/Ingo_zk
StarkNet
https://starkware.co/starknet/
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Bankless, where we explore the frontier of internet money and internet finance. |
| 0:06.9 | And sometimes, that frontier is at a conference. |
| 0:09.6 | Like last weekend, we're over a thousand developers, founders, builders and investors, attended |
| 0:14.9 | the StarCware sessions in Tel Aviv in order to participate in growing the StarCnet ecosystem. |
| 0:20.1 | This is Bankless's StarCware session series, which are nine bite-sized episodes interviewing |
| 0:25.0 | the founders, builders, and ecosystem developers of StarCnet. |
| 0:29.0 | Every once in a while, in the crypto world, a conference happens, but not everyone is |
| 0:32.3 | available to attend. |
| 0:33.3 | Don't worry, Bankless has your back, because I go to basically every conference that's |
| 0:37.6 | out on the frontier. |
| 0:38.6 | And I bring an entire podcast studio in tow with me, in order to make sure that the |
| 0:42.6 | Bankless nation stays on the frontier of what's happening in crypto. |
| 0:45.7 | In this interview, we are talking to Ignoyama, Omar from Ignoyama. |
| 0:49.0 | Ignoyama is an interesting product where most things that we talk about on Bankless |
| 0:52.1 | are on-chain. |
| 0:53.1 | We're actually talking about hardware in this episode. |
| 0:55.6 | ZK proofs are computationally intensive, especially for CPUs. |
| 1:01.2 | So Ignoyama is working on building chips, which are just, you know, ASICs, first FGPAs, |
| 1:08.2 | and then ASICs later, to help speed up the prooferset of ZK proofs. |
| 1:13.4 | And so while ZK proofs are computationally intensive, we still want the ability for |
| 1:19.0 | anyone to run those proofs. |
| 1:21.4 | And so the bulk case for Ignoyama is to put a bunch of ZK proofer chips in all of the |
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