Ziggurat
summary
Ziggurat reverse engineers the Zcash network protocol and runs a daily suite of ~120 conformance, load and fuzzing tests against lightweight synthetic nodes that speak only the network layer. A crawler plus crunchy analyzer feeds a WebGL force-graph and metrics (degree, betweenness, closeness) into app.runziggurat.com while an inverse crawler and red‑team on testnet expose crash vectors (one reported exploit could halt nodes in ~20 minutes) that Zebra fixes.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Ziggurat framework
- 1:04Network layer vulnerabilities
- 3:12Peer-to-peer risks
- 5:20Zcash funding history
- 6:26Ziggurat process
- 9:36Network testing and metrics
- 13:31Web app and test suite demo
- 15:58Network metrics and improvements
- 17:02Red team exercise
- 18:55Q&A
