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Ingonyama ZK @ingonyama.com · 25/07/2025

🍫 New Snark Chocolate Episode 🍫 Tinfoil's Confidential AI Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0eq7... Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/il/podcast/s... YouTube: youtu.be/zk5YbcxgsDA Join Snark Chocolate Club on Telegram: t.co/MFS6tXK6fe

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Ingonyama ZK @ingonyama.com · 16/07/2025

🍫 New Snark Chocolate Episode We sat down with Jay Prakash, Co-founder & CEO of Silence Labs, to talk: 🔐 Silent Shard: MPC-based key management 🧠 Silent Compute: private multiparty data processing 🏦 GTM focus: banks & financial institutions 🛠️ Roadmap to privacy-as-a-service Links in first reply 👇

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Ingonyama ZK @ingonyama.com · 01/06/2025

When ZEROBASE needed faster real-time ZK proof generation at scale, they turned to ICICLE. 🥶 ZEROBASE has deployed a suite of high-performance ZK apps across mobile, edge, and web. With ICICLE, latency dropped across the board 🔥 Explore the case study here: 🔗 www.ingonyama.com/post/case-st...

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Ingonyama ZK @ingonyama.com · 29/05/2025

Miden Blockchain: Edge-First, ZK-Native The latest SNARK CHOCOLATE is served, hot and fresh! 🍫 This week we sat down with Bobbin Threadbare, co-founder Miden, about designing a new blockchain protocol from the ground up around client-side proving — an "edge blockchain". 🎧 Links to listen below👇

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Ingonyama ZK @ingonyama.com · 28/05/2025

We’re also excited to welcome Brevis as our first design partner. Together, we’re pushing the limits of Pico ZKVM performance and leveraging the ZPU backend to break new speed records. Interested in early access? Email us at zpu@ingonyama.com

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Ingonyama ZK @ingonyama.com · 28/05/2025

ICICLE just got a powerful new backend🧊 We’re partnering with Cornami to bring their FracTLcore compute fabric into the ICICLE cryptographic acceleration framework The result is the ZPU, a new ICICLE-powered backend built to scale Zero-Knowledge Proof performance www.ingonyama.com/post/ingonya...

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Ingonyama ZK @ingonyama.com · 26/05/2025

"Universal Proof Market with Fermah" The latest SNARK CHOCOLATE is live! 🍫 We sat down with Vanishree Rao, founder of Fermah, to explore how they're building a universal proof marketplace for fast, cost-efficient, real-world ZK adoption. 🎧 Listen now 🔽 Spotify (below) ⤵️ Apple Pods (3rd post)

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Ingonyama ZK @ingonyama.com · 26/05/2025

🍁 Fresh from zkSummit 13 in Toronto: Yuval Domb joined Ulrich Haböck from StarkWare to present: Laurent STARKs Laurent STARKs (formerly known as RC-STARKs) are the latest addition to the family of STARKs over the circle curve. They operate over M31, and support standard FFT, IOP, and FRI. Link⬇️

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Ingonyama ZK @ingonyama.com · 14/05/2025

Brewing Interoperability with Espresso Systems The latest SNARK CHOCOLATE is piping hot! ☕️ In this episode, we sat down with Ben Fisch, co-founder & CEO Espresso Systems, about building a fast confirmation layer for L2s. 🎧 Listen now: 🔽 Spotify (next post) ⏬ Apple Podcasts (following post)

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Ingonyama ZK @ingonyama.com · 07/05/2025

A fresh episode of Snark Chocolate just dropped! 🍫 We sat down with Chad Fowler @chadfowler.com — jazz musician, technologist, author, CTO, and general partner at @blueyard.com It’s a wide-ranging and inspiring conversation! 🎧 Don’t miss this one 🔽 Spotify link below ⏬ Apple Podcast in 3rd post

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Ingonyama ZK @ingonyama.com · 05/05/2025

How do you talk meaningfully about technical topics outside your expertise? Hear how Anna Rose does it in this engaging clip from her appearance on Snark Chocolate 🍫

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Ingonyama ZK @ingonyama.com · 30/04/2025

Privacy. Storage. Identity. Sui’s Suite, Unpacked The latest SNARK CHOCOLATE is out! 🍫 We sat down with Deepak Maram from Mysten Labs to dive into SUI's cryptography-driven roadmap and products. 🎧 Listen now: 🔽 Spotify (next post) ⏬ Apple Podcasts (following post)

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Ingonyama ZK @ingonyama.com · 28/04/2025

ICICLE v3.8 also upgrades our accelerated hash functions. Check out the throughput comparison against NVIDIA’s cuPQC. Start here 👉 github.com/ingonyama-zk...

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Ingonyama ZK @ingonyama.com · 27/04/2025

Ingonyama at ICLR 2025! 🇸🇬 Our colleagues Tomer and Queenie are in Singapore this week, presenting cutting-edge research. They will present: Provable Watermark Extraction: Introducing zkDL++, a novel framework for provable AI. Are you in Singapore and want to connect? Reach out and get in touch!

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Ingonyama ZK @ingonyama.com · 25/04/2025

It’s FRI DAY 🧊 ICICLE v3.8 introduces a fully optimized CUDA + CPU implementation of FRI Go hands-on 👇 FRI API documentation: dev.ingonyama.com/icicle/primi... v3.8 Release Notes: github.com/ingonyama-zk...

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Ingonyama ZK @ingonyama.com · 24/04/2025

The latest SNARK CHOCOLATE pod is live! 🍫 We sat down with Anna Rose to talk about building Zero Knowledge FM, ZK Summit, ZKV and ZK Hack 🔥 🎧 Listen now: 🔽 Spotify (next post) ⏬ Apple Podcasts (following post)

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Ingonyama ZK @ingonyama.com · 23/04/2025

How long does it take ICICLE to switch from CPU to GPU? About as long as it takes to read this tweet. 🎬 Quick demo: ICICLE-Snark running on both CPU and GPU (It's the fastest Groth16 prover on earth) 📱 Mobile support coming soon (talk to us about mobile proving!) MIT-licensed code in next post👇

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Ingonyama ZK @ingonyama.com · 16/04/2025

TACEO: Collaborate to Prove SNARK CHOCOLATE is back with a brand-new edition! 🎙️ We sat down with Lukas Helminger and Lukas Götz from TACEO to talk about their novel architecture that combines MPC and ZK to unlock collaborative, verifiable computation Listen on Spotify ⬇️ or Apple Podcasts ⏬

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Ingonyama ZK @ingonyama.com · 14/04/2025

ICICLE v3.7 is here 🧊 Implement high-speed cryptography protocols in Go with GPU acceleration via Apple Metal — fast, clean, client-side proving. Now w/ native support for Goldilocks field✨ 🎩 First to submit a research grant w/ Goldilocks arithmetic – double the reward github.com/ingonyama-zk...

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Ingonyama ZK @ingonyama.com · 10/04/2025

Welcome to the Real World 😎 The latest SNARK CHOCOLATE pod is live! This week, we sat down with dcbuilder.eth from World, to talk about building identity infrastructure for the age of AI Listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts with the links below 👇

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Ingonyama ZK @ingonyama.com · 07/04/2025

We refreshed the Research Grants for 2025! This update highlights 2 grant recipients we’re excited about — accelerating Threshold Encryption & Collaborative zk-SNARKs. $100,000+ in grants for pushing the limits of cryptography performance with ICICLE. Learn more: www.ingonyama.com/post/ingonya...

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Ingonyama ZK @ingonyama.com · 03/04/2025

Aztec: Privacy by Design ☂️ The latest SNARK CHOCOLATE pod is here! 🍫 This week, we sat down with Lisa Akselrod from Aztec Network, to unpack how they’re building a fully decentralized, privacy-first Layer 2 Spotify & Apple Podcasts links below!

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Ingonyama ZK @ingonyama.com · 21/03/2025

Traveling to Sofia for ZKProof or @rwc.iacr.org? Don’t miss @omershlomovits.bsky.social at ZK Hack! He’ll present: The Current State of ZKP Hardware & Applications Here's a sneak peek at ZK in gaming—running client-side on the same GPU, in parallel with game graphics 👀 Sign up below 👇

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Ingonyama ZK @ingonyama.com · 19/03/2025

Pico: Brevis’ High-Performance zkVM The latest SNARK CHOCOLATE pod just dropped!🎙️ This week, we sat down with Michael Dong, cofounder of Brevis, to break down ZK-powered verifiable computation. 🔹 Evolution 🔹 Pico’s role 🔹 ZK for interoperability 🔹 Real-world use cases 🔹 AI meets ZK 🔹 What’s next

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Ingonyama ZK @ingonyama.com · 15/03/2025

Introducing DeepProve: Lagrange's ZKML Breakthrough The latest SNARK CHOCOLATE pod is live! 🎙️ This week, we spoke with Ismael H-R, founder & CEO of Lagrange, about DeepProve, their cutting-edge zkML prover reshaping verifiable AI. 🎧 Listen now: 🔽 Spotify (2nd post) ⏬ Apple Podcasts (3rd post)

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Ingonyama ZK @ingonyama.com · 06/03/2025

ZKP2P: Trustless On-Offramp Powered by ZKTLS The latest SNARK CHOCOLATE pod is live! 🎙️ This week, we spoke with Sachin Kumar, co-founder @ ZKP2P, about building a fast, trust-minimized, and composable P2P on-off ramp using ZK proofs. 🎧 Listen now: 🔽 Spotify (2nd post) ⏬ Apple Podcasts (3rd post)

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Ingonyama ZK @ingonyama.com · 26/02/2025

SNARK CHOCOLATE is back! 🍫 with Aleo: Privacy-Preserving Smart Contracts This week, we sat down with Howard Wu, cofounder Aleo and CEO Provable, to dive deep into building decentralized, privacy-preserving applications. 🎧 Listen now: 🔽 Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/4HiO... or Apple Pods ⬇️

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Ingonyama ZK @ingonyama.com · 20/02/2025

TEE Finds PMF in AI with Phala 👀 The latest episode of SNARK CHOCOLATE is live! 🍫 This week, we spoke with Marvin Tong, cofounder of Phala Network, on how Phala removes centralized trust in Web3 with cryptography and TEEs 🔥 🎧 Listen now: 🔽 Spotify (2nd post) ⏬ Apple Podcasts (3rd post)

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Ingonyama ZK @ingonyama.com · 18/02/2025

ICICLE V3.5: Sumcheck with Lambda Functions ⛄️ ICICLE now supports a fully CUDA-optimized Sumcheck API for arbitrary functions over multilinear polynomials. New in V3.5: ✅ Sumcheck API ✅ Proof-of-work for FRI-like protocols ✅ Poseidon2 sponge function ✅ Bug fixes & performance improvements 1/2 👇

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Ingonyama ZK @ingonyama.com · 14/02/2025

Introducing AIR-ICICLE❄️ Plonky3 meets ICICLE—write AIR circuits in Plonky3, generate traces in ICICLE, and build custom STARK provers with GPU acceleration A major breakthrough, enabling Plonky3 users to leverage ICICLE for high-speed proving 🙏 to Polygon & Plonky3 teams hackmd.io/@Ingonyama/a...

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Ingonyama ZK @ingonyama.com · 22/01/2025

Physical Cryptography with Cursive 🍫 The latest SNARK CHOCOLATE pod is live! This week, we chatted with Vivek and Rachel of Cursive, a studio blending cryptography, design, and NFC tech for human connection 🪄 • Blending ZK Identity with design and NFC for tangible, user-friendly experiences 👇🧵4

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Ingonyama ZK @ingonyama.com · 16/01/2025

ICICLE V3.4 is out 🧊 Highlights: 1. Improved CPU MSM (see figure) 2. Blake 3 CPU + CUDA Release Notes: github.com/ingonyama-zk... (*) Dev Docs: dev.ingonyama.com/icicle/overv... Research Grants: www.ingonyama.com/blog/ingonya... (*) yes, also Vulkan 🤯

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Ingonyama ZK @ingonyama.com · 15/01/2025

ZAMA: The Craft of Building FHE Products The latest SNARK CHOCOLATE pod is out! 🍫 This week we sat down with Morten Dahl, VP Blockchain Engineering at Zama, to dive into the world of Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) and its applications in blockchain and machine learning (ML). Listen below 👇

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Ingonyama ZK @ingonyama.com · 15/01/2025

ICICLE vs. Plonky3 😊 (to reproduce: p3-koala-bear = "0.2.0", 🧊 V3.3)

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Ingonyama ZK @ingonyama.com · 08/01/2025

Reclaiming the Internet 📶 The latest SNARK CHOCOLATE pod is online 🍫 This week we spoke with Madhavan Malolan, cofounder of Reclaim Protocol, about his journey and how Reclaim is building the API of the internet with zkTLS. Featuring...🧵(1/3)

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Ingonyama ZK @ingonyama.com · 06/01/2025

ANTPOOL Partners With Ingonyama to Launch ALEO Mining Software 👀 Our state-of-the-art Aleo GPU prover just launched with ANTPOOL!🔥 This GPU software is designed to provide miners with a more efficient mining experience and optimize performance. Download Antpool's ALEO mining software now 🙌

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Ingonyama ZK @ingonyama.com · 02/01/2025

ICICLE V3.3 is out 🧊 Highlights: 1. Large field NTT is now on par with Arkworks 2. KoalaBear support (thanks 0xPolygon!) Release Notes: github.com/ingonyama-zk... Developer Docs: dev.ingonyama.com/icicle/overv... Research grants: medium.com/@ingonyama/i...

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Ingonyama ZK @ingonyama.com · 02/01/2025

Enter the Dragon: The Rise of Orochi Network The latest SNARK CHOCOLATE pod just hatched 🐉 🍫 This week we spoke with Chiro Hiro, founder Orochi Network, about his journey and the evolution of Orochi’s cutting-edge ZK technologies. Including... (cont. below 👇)

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Ingonyama ZK @ingonyama.com · 29/12/2024

Taiko: A Based Roadmap with No Turning Back The latest SNARK CHOCOLATE pod just dropped! 🍫 This week, we spoke with Brecht Devos, co-founder and CTO @taiko.bsky.social, about his journey and the evolution of Taiko as a Based ZK rollup. • Insights into Taiko’s unique stack designs...

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Ingonyama ZK @ingonyama.com · 27/12/2024

Gnark recently updated ICICLE integration from V0 to V3 🥳 leading to more performance - approx 10x for ECDSA signature verification circuit. If you are using Gnark with GPU, please consider upgrading. Big shout out to Ivo Kubjas, Gautam Botrel and team! github.com/Consensys/gn...

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Ingonyama ZK @ingonyama.com · 25/12/2024

Here are the details: • Choose a research paper • Identify an algorithm with reported benchmarks • Re-implement it using ICICLE • The greater your improvement over the original implementation, the larger the grant For more info: www.ingonyama.com/blog/ingonya...

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Ingonyama ZK @ingonyama.com · 25/12/2024

Ingonyama Research Grants 2025 🎀 Announcing our second grants program: $100,000 dedicated to researchers The Goal: Outperform existing research benchmarks Collaborate with us to accelerate cryptography. See post below 👇

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Ingonyama ZK @ingonyama.com · 22/12/2024

Scaling ZK Infrastructure for the Next Billion Users Don’t miss Google's presentation from ZK Accelerate, where they revealed how Google is driving the future of Web3 and ZK innovation 🔥 📺 Watch the full talk, and all ZK product talks & panels from ZKA on Ingonyama’s YouTube channel!

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Ingonyama ZK @ingonyama.com · 18/12/2024

Spacecoin: To Infinity and Beyond 🪐 The newest SNARK CHOCOLATE pod just landed! This week, we spoke with Matej and Daniel, founders of Spacecoin Spacecoin is building a secure, distributed-compute network in space: pioneering the “space computer” Spotify - 2nd post ⬇️ Apple Podcasts - 3rd post⏬

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Ingonyama ZK @ingonyama.com · 13/12/2024

Foundational ZK for a Proof-Based Future ✅ Lagrange Labs' talk was a standout at ZK Accelerate! Check out how Lagrange's Prover Network of Networks scales dynamically with subnetworks offering dedicated proving bandwidth 👀 Catch the first min here + explore all ZKA talks on Ingonyama's YouTube 📺

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Ingonyama ZK @ingonyama.com · 11/12/2024

3MI Labs: Where Research Meets Industry The latest SNARK CHOCOLATE pod just dropped! 🍫 This week, we spoke with @cryptomer.bsky.social, founder and CEO of 3MI Labs 🔥 Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/7oSg... Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/0... #SNARKCHOCOLATE #Web3 #cryptography

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Ingonyama ZK @ingonyama.com · 10/12/2024

The Aleo Advantage 🙌 ZK Lim of Aleo delivered an excellent overview at ZK Accelerate: • Aleo's key features • How it works • Real-world applications Aleo is a privacy-focused blockchain leveraging ZKPs for scalable, efficient transactions Explore all ZKA talks on Ingonyama’s YouTube channel 📺

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Ingonyama ZK @ingonyama.com · 10/12/2024

Groth16 using ICICLE on Android (ARM)📱 Examples include: Aptos keyless, Worldcoin, Semaphore, Keccak256 Benchmarks available on request Upcoming: 2x on ARM, Vulkan support Test it: Upload the witness and zkey files to your phone github.com/ingonyama-zk...

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Ingonyama ZK @ingonyama.com · 08/12/2024

Orbital Trusted Party 🛰️ Watch @yangwao.bsky.social of Spacecoin's stellar talk at ZK Accelerate! Spacecoin uses satellites for orbital data centers with: • Lower costs • Solar power access • Reduced latency They're building a Space Computer on top of orbital data centers - watch it on Ingo's YT

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