ZK HACK - Introduction to Puzzle 5

24 Nov 2021 · 4:24

Zero Knowledge hosts Anna Rose and Kobi Gurkan introduce the fifth puzzle in the ZK HACK series, a zero-knowledge challenge titled To Be Adaptive Is To Be Strong created by Aleo. The segment sets up the puzzle for a workshop series run by ZKValidator and the Zero Knowledge Podcast, covering seven weeks of zero-knowledge tools and concepts alongside the competition.

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hey kobe hello wait he's just lost now in the i don't even see the blueberry where are you where am i [Laughter] that's just good too like my mining in the tree animals all right anyway sorry um sorry no blueberry no worries right okay uh let me pull up i actually gonna put up the slides because we i want to share the um the images does this work yeah so i guess what we can share now is a little bit about puzzle five what do we

have in store for this week right so this puzzle is called to be adaptive is to be strong it's developed this week by specifically by proteus sorry um yeah so this puzzle is in some way in spirit it's similar to a previous puzzle we had it's also a sigma protocol that you have to exploit but in a very different way this time and yeah so as usual you submit the solution using the form there will be hints throughout the week on wednesday thursday and friday

um and the you can submit your solutions up until 11 59 59 on monday that's the idea oh here i am uh oh wait are you working now does it work i don't see i don't see you are you a blue right now no you're just you're great i'm also i'm just gonna quickly edit because i just realized that we did not update the um the text for the sort of hint so i'm just gonna i'm doing that as we speak one second like the hint was not correct there this hint the hint for this time is extra is not always better it can sound bad right

yeah because that is really bad okay okay i mean actually that's that's uh to be honest it's true but it's for the next one oh that's for the next one oh no i think we have we have to fix our our clues a little bit damn it okay unless i grab the wrong one sorry about that okay um i thought i was i thought i was on top of it uh yeah the prize the prize for this coming one is the zk validator who is also like kind of the co-producer this is a project that you know i'm i'm involved in that and the podcast kobe's also involved in the zk validator so yeah we're going to be the prize sponsors i will find we we should check on the website to make sure that we get

the right one there too um but we will we'll update that but yeah to be adaptive is to be strong i think can we add actually the link to the puzzle do we know when that's going live is it going to be live now or be live right now ooh okay let's grab it then yep that's in the chat yeah to be adaptive is to be strong what is the what is the selectivity can cause weakness damn it that's what it's supposed to do exactly and that's noise okay okay well bummer i don't know if i really have time to fix it this time but

we'll fix it on the web it's fine it's just a background [Laughter] really a hint okay okay good oh yeah and actually the puzzle is built by elio and elio is also hosting the next ck hack workshop on uh what is it november 30th so next week around this time we're going to be coming back here to learn about leo elio and that project and it's kind of a nice little it's nice that they're also they happen to be the builders of the puzzle uh that we'll be awarding the prizes for that week so yeah hope to see you all there again thanks again to zack and joe and aztec for doing the workshop and yeah hope to see you all next week take it easy

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