ZKV presents Privacy in Cosmos: Introduction by Anna Rose

Transcript

all right i want to do an intro this is the second privacy event that the xero knowledge validator is doing for the cosmos ecosystem um this one we entitled privacy in cosmos oh let me just get my slides ready to go yes and it's brought to you by the xeronaut validator and i'll tell you a little bit more about that shortly i want to give a quick recap of last time's event so last time we had a showcase also of teams who are building with privacy in mind on the cosmos ecosystem and for those for those teams were last time inoma penumbra and osmosis and we have some updates actually around that third one that i'm going to share shortly this time around here's the agenda the

plan is for me to share a little bit about our mission and some updates uh and then i think what's really interesting is over the last few months i learned that there's still some folks in the cosmos ecosystem who potentially don't understand like the value of privacy generally and so i'm really excited to have harry speaking and sharing this big picture of privacy because i think it's just important that people understand at the baseline why we're doing any of this and then we follow this with a showcase of three new privacy projects so this time we have oasis nim and enigma secret we're going to be sharing some of their work we conclude it with a panel about validators privacy and the

cosmos network so i want to share a little bit about what we do the xero null validator so the zkv is a validator like many other validators we are active on like numerous networks but i think what sets us apart is that we have the singular focus we focus on privacy and zero knowledge research and here's how we do some of that we look to draft and champion proposals we act as an advocate for privacy in those networks we act as a bridge between the zk community and the network developers we look to support emerging teams we do this either by helping them find funding having them showcase on events like this

we also are starting to do investments um so get in touch with us if you're looking to fundraise and we're also looking to launch initiatives to promote zktech i'll talk a little bit about that later this is the team the team has i don't know if you noticed but it's grown a little bit since the last time we did an event like this kobe and susannah have joined in the last few months and i'm very excited to uh have this great team to kind of do a lot of this work together with and also thank you susannah who put together a lot of this event by the way if anyone has any issue if you don't hear me or if there's any like questions about uh yeah if there's any technical things i'm relying on the people in the chat to let me know yeah oh zaki says here that kobe is an

og cosmonaut few people know this yeah me okay so this event is supported by funding from the cosmos hub and this is different from previous events where we had sponsorships this was submitted as a proposal it was voted through and as part of this proposal here is what we are doing we are preparing three online events one per quarter so this is the first of those three and we plan on doing one live in person conference ideally like it will probably be beginning of next year and ideally this is you know obviously we're waiting to make sure that everything's covered safe but i'm very much looking forward to

this one small caveat to the three online events we are thinking of potentially hosting one of those events as an in-person meetup maybe later this year and this will all be dependent on you know whether or not it's possible but yeah i just kind of wanted to throw that out there um what we will be doing after this is preparing actually during this we're going to be sharing a survey it would be so helpful if you can actually fill this out here we start to gather information from the community about you know your attitudes and thoughts and feelings about privacy and we plan on publishing a report about this event and also kind of the status of the privacy community in cosmos every time we do one of these events and so yeah i want to say thank you to the

support from the cosmos hub later on we're going to be doing a panel discussion about validators about cosmos hub funding i know that like there are some questions about what should and should not be funded by the cosmos hub and i hope we can kind of dive into that in that conversation all right other initiatives that we're working on there's currently plans for a zk focused hackathon this is currently planned for the fall we'd love to do it in person we're in the process of gathering feedback from the community to see like should we do it in person should we do it virtual should we do it in berlin should we do it somewhere else and so i think susannah if you're out there i think maybe if you can find the link sorry if you can find the link to that

um form it would be awesome to hear also from the community here if they're interested in attending a hackathon like that or we're trying to get some feedback about that okay and the other thing we're doing is the zk open legal report so this is looking at the legal ramifications challenges and opportunities for privacy tech we noticed that across like almost every project is talking to lawyers to try to understand what is and is not possible in the case of zk stuff we thought why don't we start pooling some of these questions together look at this into different jurisdictions how is it treated how can even like zk potentially solves some of the problems that maybe even regulators are looking to solve so this is something that if you have a project that you're also

talking to you're talking to a lawyer about topics like this get in touch with us because we're hoping to like put a lot of this together into one single report a little oh i just made this slide right before it's a little bit funny formatting anyway one other really cool update that i want to share is about osmosis so the xero knowledge validator i'm very excited to announce that we have a new partnership happening with chorus one they will be our technical partner and we will we will be live on osmosis very shortly i don't think we're live yet we're like really in the midst of doing it this week but um keep an eye out if you are claiming your osmo you can actually stake to us over in osmosis as well so some links to us you can find out

more at the zkvalidrater.com follow us on twitter or check out our blog that's where the reports are going to be uh after this event the media partner is zk podcast which is like the other hat that i wear the reason we kind of call it a media partner is that the videos from this event will be on the on the xeronaut podcast youtube channel um pretty much all of our events have zk podcast as a media partner because it's also me um yeah so the goals for this event what we want to do is explore why privacy is important we learn we want to learn more about the cosmos privacy projects and we want to discuss the role of the

cosmos hub validators community and the community in bringing privacy to the ecosystem welcome i'm excited to have to spend the next two hours with you exploring all of this and yeah i hope you're all here be sure to say something in the chat this is how we know you're in the audience