cLabs has requested that Least Authority perform a security audit of Plumo, a SNARK-based protocol for achieving an ultra fast light client for the Celo blockchain. Plumo is based on the Groth16 SNARK. Specifically, Celo uses the BW6-761 curve and the Groth16 proving system, as implemented in ZEXE, a Rust
Since 2015, Least Authority has been working with zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) to further enable privacy, improve security, and encourage the implementation of zero-knowledge proofs in Web3 technologies and beyond. Although Zcash spun out of Least Authority with the Electric Coin Company in 2016, we continued to work on zero-knowledge
2021 seems to be the year that we all accepted the term “Web3” as the way to refer to the collective movements of decentralizing infrastructure and empowering users to be in control. It means the next generation of the Internet and beyond, which includes the tokenization of things for digital