ZKV presents Privacy in Cosmos: DeFi Edition - Introduction

Transcript

i am susannah's hype women today so i just want to get everyone excited i want to say welcome to the third zero knowledge validator event which is focused on cosmos it's so cool to be doing this again the last two were really successful and really interesting this edition looks at privacy in the context of d5 in cosmos in the cosmos ecosystem and we have a really good group of people speaking today so i'm going to hand this over to susannah who is from the zk validator she has also put together this event so yeah take it away susanna yeah and i'm going to bounce out i'll see you guys later there we go i'll just go into present mode so i've just got a few slides to introduce the event

so first of all thank you everyone for joining us and as anna mentioned this event focusing on d5 um for the privacy and cosmos event series and let me try and change my side yeah so this event is brought to you by the zero knowledge validator um and we have our media partner the zero knowledge podcast which uh anna is going to be taking more of an active role in moderating the panels and guiding discussions later on during the event and this event is made possible by the support of the cosmos hub so we have funding to do four events for the cosmos ecosystem and

they're focused on privacy and zero knowledge technology and this is actually the third event that we're doing so the first event we did was kind of testing the waters seeing whether you guys are interested in these cosmos focused events and yeah you guys seem to like it so that's like we carried on so this is the second event in our funded event series and we have another online event and then we will do another in-person event and at the end of every event we'll have all the recordings available online on the xero knowledge podcast youtube channel and then we'll do a write-up so a blog post the findings and that's really important to note that we'll be sending around a feedback

survey so please please give us your feedback because that's really going to help us improve our future events so just a little bit about the zero knowledge validator what we do who we are so we are a mission-driven validator we support privacy and zero-knowledge research we do this in a number of ways we actively participate in governance on the networks that we validate on we advocate for privacy we act as a bridge between privacy and zero knowledge teams we support emerging teams help them with connections funding advice and we also have a number of zero knowledge initiatives which i will touch on in the

next slide so currently there's five of us there's anna and will the co-founders and then there's tor who's also at the ethereum foundation and kobe from sea labs and then there's me and we're also looking to expand our team so if you have any devops experience or if you have marketing and community development experience then we want to hear from you so get in touch and we can discuss some job opportunities we currently have two postings so yeah we'd really like to hear from you if you want to get involved with the zero knowledge validator so touching on those other initiatives just wanted to bring your attention to

three things that we're also doing so the zk hack hopefully some of you have already heard of this because it should be right up a lot of you guys street so it's a series of events starting on the 26th of october it's a combination of workshops to teach you more about zero knowledge tooling um and puzzles with prizes so this is kind of like a capture the flag style competition um and if you're the first one to complete the puzzle or second or third then you'll actually win monetary prizes so yeah it'd be really cool to see a lot of you getting involved there and anna's posted the link in the chat so have a

look the next initiative is the open legal working group so here we're trying to kind of demystify some of the legal challenges that zero knowledge teams that are trying to implement zero knowledge might experience so we're currently writing up our initial report and then to keep your eyes peeled for this this autumn we're going to be launching some grants to help support early stage their knowledge teams so keep your eyes open for that and i need to get to grips so changing my slides so yeah that brings me on to the goals for this event so we wanted to explore

why privacy really matters in d5 applications in the cosmos ecosystem bring together people interested in privacy and zero knowledge and generally raised the profile of privacy in blockchain so i won't take up too much more of your time but just to quickly go through the agenda and how this event is going to run so it's going to be a little bit different to how we've done it previously because we took on board some feedback and looked at kind of the viewing statistics and we found that people were maybe slightly less engaged with really long power discussions but at the same time there were a lot of things interesting points that were

raised and things that we could explore in more detail and for instance there were some talks which didn't have time for questions at the end so we've structured this event to have three kind of medium length talks and then we'll have panel discussions um which are kind of interacting with the themes of the talks so our first speaker will be sunny from osmosis and we'll be looking at the theme of front running and mev then we'll have henry talking about ibc bridge privacy and private zones and then we're gonna have sj from tara talking about stable coins so

without further ado i think sunny you should come up and share your screen