Episode
Year in Review: ZK Podcast in 2025 & Beyond
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- Zero Knowledge
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- Dec 3, 2025
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- 894
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Summary
In this end-of-year episode, Anna recaps the major ZK themes of 2025 and gives a preview of what’s coming in 2026 — new episodes, a mini-series, zkSummit14, and the rollout of ZK Mesh Plus, a unified space for newsletters, educational content, and events. She highlights this year’s core research threads, from lattices and Ligero to quantum security, ZK-ID systems, emerging applications, and the ongoing push toward better proving benchmarks. Anna wraps with reflections on why privacy tech is becoming more urgent in the age of AI and what the community will be exploring next year. Related Links Ecosystem ZK Whiteboard Sessions ZK Mesh Subscribe to ZK Mesh ZK Podcast substack State of ZK Report ZK Systems Story Back to the Future with Zero Knowledge Zero Knowledge Systems, Privacy and Security with Jonathan Wilkins The Founding of Zero Knowledge Systems with Austin Hill Lattices Implementing LatticeFold with Matthew and Albert from Nethermind Lattices, Folding, & Symphony with Binyi Chen ZK Whiteboard: Lattice-based SNARKs, w/ Vadim Lyubashevsky ZK Whiteboard: LatticeFold, w/ Binyi Chen Ligero Ligero for Memory-Efficient ZK with Muthu ZK Whiteboard: The Ligero Proof System, w/ Muthu Venkitasubramaniam Quantum Quantum Engineering with Jelena Vučković Quantum Punks with Alex and Nicola Countdown to Q-Day with Project 11 ZK-ID Bringing ID Onchain with Self zkPDF and zkID with Vikas Rushi and Ying Tong Evolving ZK Identity from Iden3 to Privado & Billions ZKPassport, Obsidion & the Emerging Noir Ecosystem Building ZK Registries Onchain with Rarimo More How ZK inspired AI Watermarking with Miranda Christ Lighter, Perp DEXs and Custom ZK Circuits zkTLS with Maddy from Reclaim ZKTorch & the Evolution of ZKML with Daniel Kang Zerocoin to zk-creds: Modern ZK Histor…