Jordi Baylina of Polygon zkEVM | Zero Knowledge, Privacy, Scalability and Building Useful Technology

Logos Podcast with Jarrad Hope

This is a special episode with someone who has been involved in the Ethereum ecosystem for many years. Jordi, a white hat hacker, has been building common good infrastructure and protecting people on the internet during that time.

Topics Covered in this episode:

1. Dapp Node, Giveth, Catalan Independence Movement, and useful technology

2. Technical implementations and tradeoffs in zero knowledge technology

3. Staying current in the rapidly evolving blockchain industry

4. What excites Jordi in the short term and long term

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TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 Introduction

03:10: Dapp Node, Giveth, Catalan Independence Movement, and useful technology

06:14: Infrastructure decentralization connection to the internet

06:55: ISP’s and Spanish government censor voting in the Catalan Independence Movement

08:38: What does it mean for technology to work appropriately?

11:10: My mission

12:00: Why is zk technology so important right now

14:50: Zero knowledge is not only privacy. Also for validity and scalability

17:35: Tradeoffs between privacy and compression in zero knowledge proofs

19:20 Recursion, aggregation, and trees of proofs

21:00: What are the downfalls of current implementation of zkEVMs building on Ethereum

22:45: Is privacy a requirement to working?

23:40: Efficient aggregation of proofs in the context data storage systems

28:10: Speeding up msn operations and speed requirements

31:00 Keeping up with the pace of research

34:00 Building proficient teams

38:25: Speeding up the learning curve

40:00: Scaling Ethereum, liquid democracy, anonymous voting, data privacy and other goals

44:14: Scalability, usability and challenges facing utility

45:10: Prioritizing features, work, and releases

49:20: Risk assessment in the ecosystem 51:40: Define zk in 10 words or less

52:40: Is what you do hard?

54:40: Follow up roundtable with Corey, D, and Jesse

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