State of ZK

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A concise chronology from 1985 proofs to 2024 engineering: academic ZK research becomes practical with Groth16 and later PLONK, Halo 2, Nova and Stir; teams build ZK rollups, L1s, games (Dark Forest), verifiable compute and hardware accelerators; ecosystems list >200 projects and recurring events like ZK Summit and ZK hack; key claims are performance gains and recursion enabling compression, while surprises include rapid tooling growth and high project count; persistent problems are throughput limits, regulatory hits (eg Tornado Cash OFAC sanction) and scarce funding for non-blockchain apps.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:13Speaker background
3. 3:17History of zero-knowledge proofs from academia to blockchain
4. 6:48ZK milestones 2018-2024
5. 12:01ZK narratives and use cases
6. 15:59ZK challenges and regulation
7. 20:43ZK resources
8. 23:11ZK study groups
9. 24:57ZK reports and jobs
10. 26:21Closing and Q&A

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