DC Privacy Summit 2024
who it's for
privacy engineers, cryptography researchers, blockchain engineers, policymakers, compliance officers, blockchain legal counsel
topics
zero knowledge proofs; zkVM runtimes; sumcheck protocol; shielded transactions; zk rollups and Nightfall; privacy pools and dissociation proofs; age verification with zk; onchain privacy for institutions; Tornado Cash legal issues; homomorphic encryption and MPC
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Opening Remarks | Paul Brigner, Geoffrey Garrett, Eric Chung | 12m |
Event frames privacy as giving individuals control via zero knowledge proof technology and cites concrete university commitments: 12 blockchain courses, a… | ||
| The Parable of Clearville, the Land of Glass Houses | Peter Van Valkenburgh | 22m |
Legal and policy stakes around Tornado Cash smart contracts are concrete: Coin Center sues Treasury over OFAC sanctions, DOJ prosecutes alleged developer… | ||
| “Genuine” DeFi and a New Opportunity for Policymakers | Michael Orcutt, Rebecca Rettig, Michael Mosier | 34m |
Paper argues that truly decentralized protocols that give users total independent control should be treated as critical communications transmitters rather than… | ||
| What are zero-knowledge proofs? And why do they matter beyond crypto? | Zooko Wilcox | 14m |
Explains how zero‑knowledge proofs let someone prove facts without handing over personal data, demonstrated with a live demo with card challenge that shows… | ||
| How zero-knowledge proofs can be used to balance privacy and compliance | 0xbow | 26m |
Zero knowledge proofs power a concrete system: a prototype privacy pool that lets a user prove I am not one of those tainted deposits without revealing… | ||
| Achieving privacy, compliance, and decentralization | Leena Im | 23m |
Aleo launches mainnet a month ago and claims privacy by default using zero knowledge proofs to speed transactions; a live product called ZK Z Pass powers… | ||
| Lessons from Zcash | Josh Swihart | 21m |
Recalls being put on a terrorist kill list after building surveillance systems that used edge detection and facial recognition to scrape metadata across two… | ||
| Long View on Privacy | Faryar Shirzad, Asha Shankar, Shashank Agarwal, Casey Wagner | 24m |
Coinbase lays out concrete technical and policy tradeoffs: BASE L2 gets treated as the testbed while teams run data discovery solutions and smart-contract… | ||
| The science of zero-knowledge | Justin Thaler | 33m |
a16z’s team ties cryptography to engineering to push snarks from theory to practice, using the sumcheck protocol as the key tool to make proof generation… | ||
| Institutions want onchain privacy, too | Paul Brody | 24m |
EY builds Nightfall (an Ethereum layer‑2 ZKZK rollup requiring Enterprise X.509) and Starlight (a Solidity→ZK transpiler) and claims transaction costs fall… | ||
| An inflection point for privacy rights | Jay Stanley, Marta Belcher | 26m |
Argues that financial and identity privacy sit at an inflection point as courts reconsider the third-party doctrine and new tech like Zcash and zero-knowledge… | ||
| Keynote | Carole House, Tony Johnson | 35m |
Keynote argues that blockchain and cryptographic privacy tech create real national security risks: North Korea and Iran use crypto for sanctions evasion, WMD… | ||
| Crypto-privacy on the policy agenda: What comes next? | Miller Whitehouse-Levine, Allison Behuniak, Michele Korver, Katherine Kirkpatrick Bos, Nikhilesh De | 31m |
Discussion focuses on Tornado Cash as a case where criminal indictments, not Congress or rulemaking, are setting policy and courts will be decisive; FinCEN… | ||
| Highlight Video | Coinbase Institute, Project Glitch | 02m |
Frames the DC Privacy Summit as the first policy event in DC to tackle privacy, security, identity, and anti‑money laundering head on, bringing technologists… | ||
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