# ZK Insights | 16 Aug 2026

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By [ZK Insights](https://paragraph.com/@zkinsights) · 2026-08-16

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This week we have blockchain history, practical private AI with homomorphic encryption, Bitcoin's quantum threat, mathematical curiosity, lattice-based rate limiting, binary-field SNARKs, post-quantum ZKSNARKs, and isogeny-based signatures.

Blogs
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### Before Bitcoin: The ideas that made blockchains possible ｜ a16zcrypto

*   Interviews with pioneers of computing technologies
    
*   [https://a16zcrypto.substack.com/p/before-bitcoin-the-ideas-that-made](https://a16zcrypto.substack.com/p/before-bitcoin-the-ideas-that-made)
    

### How Google is Making Private AI Practical with Homomorphic Encryption | Jeremy Kun

*   [https://blog.google/security/how-google-is-making-private-ai-practical-with-homomorphic-encryption/](https://blog.google/security/how-google-is-making-private-ai-practical-with-homomorphic-encryption/)
    
*   中文翻译版（Kurt Pan）: [https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/t6RhLv-J8J0oBxkTHaomfw](https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/t6RhLv-J8J0oBxkTHaomfw)
    

Video
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### 关于比特币面临的量子威胁，我们需要了解的事 ｜ Web3 101 E83

*   [https://web3101.fireside.fm/92](https://web3101.fireside.fm/92)
    

Book
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### 《數學諸事：直覺與好奇心的祕密世界》

*   [https://mathematica.zkpunk.pro/](https://mathematica.zkpunk.pro/)
    

Papers
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### Lattice-Based Rate-Limited Tokens in the Random Oracle Model

*   Victor Youdom Kemmoe, Anna Lysyanskaya, Ngoc Khanh Nguyen
    
*   [https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/1649](https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/1649)
    

### BinarySpartan: Spartan over binary fields

*   Srinath Setty
    
*   Recommend: 🌟
    
*   [https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/1656](https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/1656)
    

### Transient Quantum Resistance, with Application to Ethereum Consensus

*   Pranay Anchuri, Matteo Campanelli, Rosario Gennaro
    
*   [https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/1660](https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/1660)
    

### Rate-Limiting Nullifiers for Gasless Sequencer Admission in Ethereum Layer-2 Rollups

*   Uğur Şen, Sergei Tikhomirov, Sylvain Delhomme, Nadeem Bhati, Cyprien Grau
    
*   [https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/1666](https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/1666)
    

### Non-Interactive Translation of Winternitz Signatures to Lamport Signatures via Secret Sharing

*   Mikhail Sergeevitch, Konrad Staniec, David Tse, Nikhil Vanjani, Robin Linus Woll
    
*   [https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/1684](https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/1684)
    

### The ePrint:2026/1591 Quantum Algorithm Does Not Solve DCP

*   Aparna Gupte, Seyoon Ragavan, Mark Zhandry
    
*   [https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/1693](https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/1693)
    

### MamaBearZKP: A Holistic Co-design of Prime Fields and Proving Stacks for High-Throughput ZKP on Modern CPUs

*   Jipeng Zhang, Yanpei Guo, Tao Lu, Hao Cheng, Jiaheng Zhang
    
*   [https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/1698](https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/1698)
    

### LUNA+: More Succinct Post-Quantum ZK-SNARKs from Computational Privacy

*   Yuki Kume, Ron Steinfeld, Amin Sakzad, Mert Yassi
    
*   [https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/1639](https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/1639)
    

### Qlapoti+ and More: Optimizing Isogeny-based Signatures

*   Yi-Fu Lai
    
*   [https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/1640](https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/1640)
    

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