Episode 338: On Trust Infrastructure with Arnaud Schenk

Zero Knowledge

Summary

This week Anna and Nico chat with Arnaud Schenk, one of the original co-founders of Aztec and creator of the Polaris Fellowship. They discuss Arnaud’s recent blog post ‘On Trust Infrastructure’, exploring the down sides of a trustless system, the need to make online community building more possible and how programmable cryptography may play a role in these solutions. They explore the history of computer culture, the rejection of institutions by mid-90s internet culture and how the seeds for this were set by the 60s counterculture.

---

Here’s some additional links for this episode:

05:09 * Episode 75: Exploring Aztec with Zac Williamson
05:09 * Episode 176: Zk-zk-rollup & zk.money with Zac and Joe from Aztec
05:09 * Episode 273: History of Plonk, Noir, and the building of Aztec 3
07:38 * Episode 237: Exploring ZK Research with Jens Groth
20:01 * Into the deep end: making sense of PLONK - Zac Williamson (CTO, Aztec Protocol)
23:55 * Collaborative Circles: Friendship Dynamics and Creative Work by Michael P. Farrell
27:05 * No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior by Joshua Meyrowitz
29:33 * On Trust Infrastructure by Arnaud Schenk
39:28 * Crypto's Three Body Problem by Lotti, Shorin, Hart
48:13 * Plurality philosophy in an incredibly oversized nutshell by Vitalik Buterin
52:21 * From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism by Fred Turner
52:21 * The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe

• On Crypto Article by Arnaud Schenk
• Knot Group Wiki

---

Check out the ZK Jobs Board for the latest jobs in ZK at jobsboard.zeroknowledge.fm

---

zkSummit12 is happening in Lisbon on Oct 8th! Applications to attend are now open at zksummit.com, apply today as early bird tickets are limited!

---

Episode Sponsors

Attention, all projects in need of server-side proving, kick start your rollup with Gevulot's ZkCloud, the first zk-optimized decentralized cloud!

Get started with a free trial plus extended grant opportunities for premier customers until Q1 2025. Register at Gevulot.com.

---

Aleo is a new Layer-1 blockchain that achieves the programmability of Ethereum, the privacy of Zcash, and the scalability of a rollup.

As Aleo is gearing up for their mainnet launch in Q1, this is an invitation to be part of a transformational ZK journey.

Dive deeper and discover more about Aleo at http://aleo.org/.

---

If you like what we do:

• Find all our links here! @ZeroKnowledge | Linktree
• Subscribe to our podcast newsletter
• Follow us on Twitter @zeroknowledgefm
• Join us on Telegram
• Catch us on [YouTube](www.youtube.com/channel/UCYWsYz5cKw4wZ9Mpe4kuM_g)