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ZK Insights | 1 Feb 2026

#99

Hightlights

Minimizing Trust, Maximizing Truth

Permutation Proofs Déjà Vu

Updates

Latticefold: Reducing Witness Size under Ajtai Commitment

RISC-V ZKVMs: the Good and the Bad

  • RISC‑V-based ZKVMs dramatically speed up ZK development and can be performant via precompiles, but there are also serious concerns around reproducible builds and compiler miscompilation/security when proving “compiled program execution.”

  • https://argument.xyz/blog/riscv-good-bad/

Microchain ZK Signers

Tokenization Privacy Solutions: An Institutional Review

Lean4 Formalization of "a Simplified Round-by-round Soundness Proof of FRI"

ZN-SNARK changed my mind

再访 Vitalik :拒绝 Crypto 末日剧本,做对抗 AI 极权的最后防线

  • Vitalik:我看到了一些社区在蓬勃生长,比如四海社区,他们发生了很多不一样的变化。这里有很多活动、很多人,还有一个最重要的点——他们没有变得无聊。

  • https://a.foresightnews.pro/article/detail/94357

Papers

Dinocchio: Distributed Prover for Ring Arithmetic

Setup Protocols for Sender Anonymity

Hachi: Efficient Lattice-Based Multilinear Polynomial Commitments over Extension Fields

On the Quantum Collision Resistance of HCF Hash Functions

ABBA: Lattice-based Commitments from Commutators

OptiBridge: A Trustless, Cost-Efficient Bridge Between the Lightning Network and Ethereum

Designated-Verifier Dynamic zk-SNARKs with Applications to Dynamic Proofs of Index

"One More Time": Security of One-time Signature Scheme Using Run-length Encoding Under Two-message Attacks

Private Proofs of When and Where

Completing the Chain: Verified Implementations of Hash-Based Signatures and Their Security

Homomorphic Signatures: A Systematization of Knowledge

Online-Friendly Robust Threshold ECDSA with Constant Amortized Communication

Toward Verifiable Privacy in Decentralized Identity: A Formal Framework for Minimal Disclosure and Unlinkability

Censorship Resistance vs Throughput in Multi-Proposer BFT Protocols

Re2creds: Reusable Anonymous Credentials from Malleable NIZK and Legacy Signatures

Practical Subvector Commitments with Optimal Opening Complexity

Generating Falcon Trapdoors via Gibbs Sampler

SmallWood: Hash-Based Polynomial Commitments and Zero-Knowledge Arguments for Relatively Small Instances


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