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!

a link collection

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

Circuits were written with Circom and that’s what we’re going to change. We’ll rewrite those circuits with Halo2, the PSE implementation (the KZG one, i’ll tell you more about it in the next section).

When starting with Halo2, keep in mind that there are two flavors of the framework out there: the vanilla one maintained by ZCash, and the fork by Ethereum's Privacy and Scaling Explorations team which uses a different polynomial commitment (KZG instead of IPA) that's more friendly for Ethereum.