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> The resources we've spent on crypto are, at the very least, pushing technological frontiers. What are some projects or technologies that have been driven for
by stusmall 4y ago
> The resources we've spent on crypto are, at the very least, pushing technological frontiers.
What are some projects or technologies that have been driven forward by crypto companies that are usable outside the crypto-space?
- iskander 4y agoIf you peel back the feverish financialization, there are a few different areas of actual research which might be usable outside crypto, such as consensus methods for distributed computation. The one I have started following is the development of ZK proofs from a theoretical construct into a programming substrate. Traditional complexity texts focus on interactive ZK protocols, but non-interactive ZK proofs have been developed significantly in the crypto world. They have recently become usable for general purpose computing with interesting privacy guarantees: you can prove f(x) = y for a known f and y but without revealing x. This feels very powerful and related to other research fields like differential privacy. Examples: - Circom: https://iden3.io/circom https://iden3.io/circom - Cairo: https://www.cairo-lang.org/docs/ https://www.cairo-lang.org/docs/ - zkREPL: https://0xparc.org/blog/zkrepl https://0xparc.org/blog/zkrepl