awesome-zero-knowledge-proofs VS halo2

Matter-Labs, Zero-Knowledge Proofs Starter Pack, etc - https://github.com/matter-labs/awesome-zero-knowledge-proofs

Check out Aztec Noir if you have 0 ZK experience. To learn, check out matter labs' awesome zkp. My favorite resource from it is "Why and How ZK Snarks". Good luck!

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Awesome lists are awesome, and Matter Labs, the team behind zkSync, keeps an awesome-zero-knowledge-proofs with links to all kind of resources.

Lots of resources here:

https://github.com/matter-labs/awesome-zero-knowledge-proofs

Finally, the are a few other zkRollups being built such as Polygon Hermez and Scroll but to go into every project in detail would require a whole post on its own. Hopefully this has been a helpful introduction to the fascinating but often confusing world of zero knowledge technology. if you want to learn more about rollups and zkRollups I’d highly recommend checking out some of u/Liberosist’s posts on the topic. or if you want to learn more about zero knowledge tech specifically, Matter Labs curated a great list of resources here: https://github.com/matter-labs/awesome-zero-knowledge-proofs

You can combine the two and have private transactions which are then rolled up in a computation, and then post the proof of the computation to mainnet. You get both cheap and private transactions and infra on top of the base chain.

But this goes beyond blockchain: we can hand code to other people to run and then have proof they haven't altered what we agreed upon running, so we can trust the results of someone else running something. That is useful in all sorts of research for replicability in science/engineering.

WIRED Computer Scientist Explains One Concept in 5 Levels of Difficulty : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOGdb1CTu5c

https://developers.aztec.network/

https://z.cash/technology/zksnarks/

https://github.com/matter-labs/awesome-zero-knowledge-proofs

[package] name = "fibonacci" version = "0.1.0" edition = "2023" # See more keys and their definitions at https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/manifest.html [lib] name = "halo2_examples" path = "src/lib.rs" [features] dev-graph = ["halo2_proofs/dev-graph", "plotters"] [dependencies] halo2_proofs = { git = "https://github.com/zcash/halo2.git", rev = "a898d65ae3ad3d41987666f6a03cfc15edae01c4"} plotters = { version = "0.3.0", optional = true } tabbycat = { version = "0.1", features = ["attributes"], optional = true }

To me, Halo2 had the steepest learning curve by far. Not just because of having to understand how PLONKish arithmetization works to build the circuits, but mostly because I found Halo2's API quite complex and its documentation hard to find. There are also few resources for learning Halo2: the best I found were the 0xparc course which provides a few really valuable code samples, as well as the examples in the main repo. You may also want to check out awesome-halo2 for updated resources.

Not all components of the project are open source. Cake's response omit's a key detail. Have a look at the license for Halo